I'm going to be playing bio shock infinite when it comes out, and thus need to upgrade my video card. I have a card which is about 5 years old, and was only $60 when I got it, so it's not a good card for this use. While I can play sky rim and portal on it, I usually have to set it to a low resolution with most eye candy features turned off to get a reasonable 20-30 frames per second.
Since I'm buying the game and a video card, and since ATI is offering the game with their 78xx and 79xx series cards, it seems like I'll be saving money if I go that route, rather than buying a cheaper card and the game separately.
But I don't want to do a lot of research and I suspect that many here have enough knowledge already installed that answering my question would be trivial with little research:
Is there a card which will run bioshock infinite reasonably well for under $100?
My other choice is an ATI 7850 2gb for $185 after rebate, and it includes the game I'm going to buy for $60 anyway. So it's as though I'm getting the 7850 for $125, which seems particularly reasonable given that its a relatively high end card. Are there other cards I should be looking at?
I'm not going to spend $300 on a video card, and even $200 is pushing it since I don't often play games, but I also don't want to miss out on too much of what bioshock has to offer, so this seems like a reasonable compromise.
I assume I'll be able to run bioshock at nearly full settings at 60fps or better on a 1080p monitor with the 7850, but let me know if that might not be enough muscle for this game. I'm plugging it into an older quad core i7 with 16gb of ram and a standard hard drive, so I suspect even if I went with a better card, my system would be holding it back anyway. But I don't need to play crysis 3 so I suspect I'll be ok. It's running windows 7 x64.
Lastly, any reason to stay away from sapphire? I'm specifically looking at the sapphire radon hd 2gb ddr5 card (11200-07-20G) which is $185 after rebate:
Amazon product
Newegg has it for the same price, and in both cases the $15 rebate and free games are included. I already pay for free amazon shipping, so that's why I'm going with them rather than newegg.
Suggestions for other cards or suppliers are welcomed.
Since I'm buying the game and a video card, and since ATI is offering the game with their 78xx and 79xx series cards, it seems like I'll be saving money if I go that route, rather than buying a cheaper card and the game separately.
But I don't want to do a lot of research and I suspect that many here have enough knowledge already installed that answering my question would be trivial with little research:
Is there a card which will run bioshock infinite reasonably well for under $100?
My other choice is an ATI 7850 2gb for $185 after rebate, and it includes the game I'm going to buy for $60 anyway. So it's as though I'm getting the 7850 for $125, which seems particularly reasonable given that its a relatively high end card. Are there other cards I should be looking at?
I'm not going to spend $300 on a video card, and even $200 is pushing it since I don't often play games, but I also don't want to miss out on too much of what bioshock has to offer, so this seems like a reasonable compromise.
I assume I'll be able to run bioshock at nearly full settings at 60fps or better on a 1080p monitor with the 7850, but let me know if that might not be enough muscle for this game. I'm plugging it into an older quad core i7 with 16gb of ram and a standard hard drive, so I suspect even if I went with a better card, my system would be holding it back anyway. But I don't need to play crysis 3 so I suspect I'll be ok. It's running windows 7 x64.
Lastly, any reason to stay away from sapphire? I'm specifically looking at the sapphire radon hd 2gb ddr5 card (11200-07-20G) which is $185 after rebate:
Amazon product
Newegg has it for the same price, and in both cases the $15 rebate and free games are included. I already pay for free amazon shipping, so that's why I'm going with them rather than newegg.
Suggestions for other cards or suppliers are welcomed.
