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Message: <blockquote data-quote="drothgery" data-source="post: 4904964" data-attributes="member: 360">The 4830 was a good value when it was released (hence reviews saying it's a good value); recent pricing trends mean that it's only $10-$15 cheaper than the significantly faster 4850 (which itself is only ~$20 cheaper than the GeForce 260 the guys who actually do PC gaming instead of just reading the articles about it like me -- I have no idea why I bother reading video card reviews; I game on my Xbox 360 if at all -- recommend). And the Radeon 4770 performs about the same as the 4830 for the same price, but uses less power.But it's more if you're trying to optimize gaming performance, getting a $280 Core i7 920 and a ~$100 video card isn't a great idea, since most games are far more limitted by video card performance than CPU performance. It'd be a better value to get a better video card and a less expensive CPU (and a less expensive overall system, because you'd have a less expensive motherboard and DDR2 memeory is cheaper than DDR3). On the other hand, video card upgrades are much easier than CPU upgrades.</blockquote>