Video Cards/Gaming

Can anyone give me an idea for a current card to upgrade to? Currently im an ATI Radeon fan, but make a case anyway on others.

When considering any GPU, keep in mind that some games, like STO have a UI that is run solely through your CPU and is Single-threaded. That means that you can have a great quad-core CPU but, since the STO UI is single-threaded, it can't use more than one of the processing cores. This is why you can have the best Video card and a great overall CPU but still get less than thirty FPS in a game.

To test that out in STO, go somewhere, like, ESD.
Type /fpshisto 1 and /fpsgraph 1
Then open your inventory.
Watch your FPS drop...
Now Hide your UI entirely and see the FPS spike up.

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Can anyone give me an idea for a current card to upgrade to? Currently im an ATI Radeon fan, but make a case anyway on others.

I have a GTX570 (and an i7 processor) and don't have any problems with STO or SWTOR (both running on max settings). If you've got the dosh and want to wait a bit, the GTX6xx series will be coming out soon, I hear.

Im only looking to spend 250 or less, unless i actually wait until next year and use my tax refund. The problem is that im not sure my card will like SWTOR or Diablo 3. I can play Crysis 2, but i get a warning every time i run the game and i dont get very good performance.