Looking to upgrade from my 7950GT to something a little more powerful.

Have been reading various reviews that suggest the HD4850 is the best bang for buck at this pricepoint, but I have a fairly strong aversion to ATI. If it's *really* a big difference, I'll probably just suck it up and get one, but was hoping you guys might have some other suggestions as well.

Going to be upgrading to a 22/24" monitor in the next few weeks as well, so would like something that will run fairly decently at 1920x or 1680x res.

Suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

4850. Can't really get much better for $200. They are pretty awsome for the price though.

I hate ATI too.

you will have to grab your straw and cards
4850 is the go in that price range

Will be far better.

I just went from an 8800GTS 640 to an 8450 and it's better than that. Not by a a whole lot but marginally.

I swapped with a mate who was running it in a 2nd PC just to see the difference.

Took me a second to catch on Spook, I must be getting too old to go to the fun parties anymore :'(

Thanks for the advice guys, appreciate it. :)