Finally updated my pc

[McNeo]

and there are no "Quadro" cards as you put it, the 9800 GX2 and the GTX 295 are dual GPU cards. the prefix Quad does not come into the equation unless running SLI on 2 of these cards, which would then be called Quad-Sli.

Hate to prove you wrong, but...

http://www.nvidia.co.uk/page/quadrofx_family.html

Those are Quadro cards. Pointless to bring into this discussion? Yes? Yes. As are high end products such as the 295 GTX and so on. I brought my examples in originally to show my case for why ATi is currently better than Nvidia (which you do not agree with), not to prove a point about who can smash the most data together on to a screen the fastest >_>

For price/performance, and the proposed price range the Nvidia GTS250 is a better choice than the HD 4850,

We're talking about a price range from about 90 quid downwards. That covers the 9800 GT and the HD 4770 as the best cards that kind of money can buy at this time.

Also, the GTS250 and the HD 4850 are no longer in the same price range. Hence, again, sure the GTS 250 hands backside to the HD 4850, but it means nothing since they're each meant for different budgets.

http://www.microdirect.co.uk/Home/Product/...-DDR3-PCI-E-DVI
http://www.microdirect.co.uk/Home/Product/...-E-DVI-HDTV-Out

Just in case you cant be bothered to click the links, the GTS250 currently costs 105 pounds here while the HD 4850 costs around 80 pounds.