Discussion under Graphic Cards, part of the Hardware Zone category on TechEnclave; I like to play call of duty 4, crysis, far cry 2 etc on a 19inch monitor and I am ...
if you have a good psu with a pci express connector and only concern about raw gaming muscle and not concern about the power saving,cooling factor go for 9600gt. I saw a go for palit 9600gt from theitwares-rahul at here in dealer section which comes around few hundred bucks more than a 4670. You may consider that.
I recently got a sapphire 4670 and send it for rma - getting vpu error in games n banchmarking test,tearing in videos.I hate crappy ati driver - nvidia driver is problem free for all the mainstream cars. Check the official forums of ati and nvidia - you will get a fair idea what I am talking about. For me ATI is for nerd who like to tweaking more than just playing n enjoying games.
From a performance perspective, the 9600GT or the G92 9600GSO 768MB.
BUT, the HD 4670 performs as close as makes no difference to the above, while consuming a lot less power, and so is the better choice.
@Amien: overall as a package - 4670 is nice n sweet , less power,less temp, hdmi, dx10.1 n all
And regarding power n temp - is that really we care while playing games few days back - its just 4770 who just created this new saga of less n power n temp -which is really a good move but still for a gamer - gaming is all that matter; rest is mostly superficial -things which are nice to know n talk n read but never realized fully.
but as you see the OP is looking for playing FPS -where a even a bit better frame rate will matter a lot.
^^^^^^ 5.5k ??? Are you sure? I am about to make a deal with Lynx for 7.1k (incl VAT + shipping ). when do you reckon these price fall will happen ? After or before DX11 era ?