Budget but awesome GFX card

[DJT]

Hey guys

Normally I would agonise for weeks about what gear to get for my beloved rig but after my trusty HD4890 left me last night I need to find a replacement card to order... by 12PM

I need something that is good, but won't break the bank, less than R1,500 if possible.
It doesn't matter if its AMD/ATI or Nvidia as long as it lets me play Skyrim and Minecraft and has 2x DVI ports. I can look at getting a more powerful card later on when I can afford it.

I haven't really been following the GFX card wars recently so I am appealing your collective knowledge which never leads astray.

Thanks in advance,
Dj

[D3PART3D]

For R1500 you could get a Radeon 6790, but for just a little more there's the 6850.
http://www.wootware.co.za/xfx-radeon-hd ... -card.html
http://www.wootware.co.za/sapphire-rade ... etail.html

[Tribble]

See my comment in English thread. Don't want my baby ripped to shreds by the technophiles on the forum

[DJT]

What you guys think of this card?
"Sapphire HD6850 - support HDMi 1.4a + Displayport 1.2 with MST , support 6x daisy-chian display via MST hub - 1Gb 256bit 4 channel DDR5 , 16RoPs , 128Gb/sec memory transfer ; 960 stream processors ( pixel shader engine + vertex pipelines ) , texture fill rate : 37.2billion/sec , 48 texture unit , 32RoPs, 1.5 TeraFLoPs , core/memory : 775 / 4000mhz , 2x dvi+Hdmi-v1.4+DisplayPort ( with dvi to d-sub converter )"

http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentatio ... 01&pid=497

[ADT]

What you guys think of this card?
"Sapphire HD6850 - support HDMi 1.4a + Displayport 1.2 with MST , support 6x daisy-chian display via MST hub - 1Gb 256bit 4 channel DDR5 , 16RoPs , 128Gb/sec memory transfer ; 960 stream processors ( pixel shader engine + vertex pipelines ) , texture fill rate : 37.2billion/sec , 48 texture unit , 32RoPs, 1.5 TeraFLoPs , core/memory : 775 / 4000mhz , 2x dvi+Hdmi-v1.4+DisplayPort ( with dvi to d-sub converter )"

http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentatio ... 01&pid=497

nice card, what's the damage?

[DJT]

A fraction over R1500, but not too bad, I like it. Can finally plug my PC into my new 40" Samsung TV (Old card didn't have HDMI)

[ADT]

Awesome

[KALSTER]

That's a nice card for the price.