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Looking for advice on buying card
I'll be purchasing a new system soon with the P4 3GHz 800FSB and D875PBZ
combo but I don't want to spend hundreds on a video card. What card would you suggest I should get? There're so many...Radeon, Leadtek, Asus...I have no idea. Thanks. |
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You would have to give an exact amount you are willing to spend.
"02935" wrote in message news I'll be purchasing a new system soon with the P4 3GHz 800FSB and D875PBZ combo but I don't want to spend hundreds on a video card. What card would you suggest I should get? There're so many...Radeon, Leadtek, Asus...I have no idea. Thanks. |
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Gigabyte do a quality Radeon 9700 Pro (128MB) for £215 shipped (dabs.com).
Raised my 3DMk01 from 10,000 to 16,000 and 3DMk03 from 1,000 to 5,000. "02935" wrote in message news I'll be purchasing a new system soon with the P4 3GHz 800FSB and D875PBZ combo but I don't want to spend hundreds on a video card. What card would you suggest I should get? There're so many...Radeon, Leadtek, Asus...I have no idea. Thanks. |
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"02935" wrote in message news I'll be purchasing a new system soon with the P4 3GHz 800FSB and D875PBZ combo but I don't want to spend hundreds on a video card. What card would you suggest I should get? There're so many...Radeon, Leadtek, Asus...I have no idea. Thanks. Why would you spend, what I consider a premium, for a state of the art PC subsystem, but not be willing to spend a proportional amount on the video card? If $200 dollars is too much for a video card, how is it that $363 isn't too much for the CPU? Either you are full of it, or you need a lesson in PC integration. |
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I think they don't have much experience with video rendering. Look at the
brands, the OP listed. Perhaps they need to refine their question to something more like: Which chip? And, what vendor? Also, listing what they are wanting to do with it. There was a time that I had no clue about video cards. That goes back to when I was wanting to play FFVII on a Voodoo Banshee. Give em a break. I've sure had many breaks. Surely you can remember when you were clueless, too? /shrug -- You, probably, thought you weren't going to die, today...SURPRISE!" -The main character in Postal 2 "Derek Wildstar" wrote in message news:E3ZKa.34986$XG4.24175@rwcrnsc53... "02935" wrote in message news I'll be purchasing a new system soon with the P4 3GHz 800FSB and D875PBZ combo but I don't want to spend hundreds on a video card. What card would you suggest I should get? There're so many...Radeon, Leadtek, Asus...I have no idea. Thanks. Why would you spend, what I consider a premium, for a state of the art PC subsystem, but not be willing to spend a proportional amount on the video card? If $200 dollars is too much for a video card, how is it that $363 isn't too much for the CPU? Either you are full of it, or you need a lesson in PC integration. |
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"Strontium" wrote in message ... I think they don't have much experience with video rendering. Look at the brands, the OP listed. Perhaps they need to refine their question to something more like: Which chip? And, what vendor? Also, listing what they are wanting to do with it. There was a time that I had no clue about video cards. That goes back to when I was wanting to play FFVII on a Voodoo Banshee. Give em a break. I've sure had many breaks. Surely you can remember when you were clueless, too? /shrug In order to give the OP further benefit of the doubt, by your gentle prodding, I've come up with the possibility that he's not DIY-ing, he just bought a pre-made 3.0 system, with a decidely inferior card. this is then an upgrade. Even if it's not the case, it's a better way to assume he's just not fiscally dense. Which then becomes a much better original question: What does $150 get me with a fast system vid wise. To that I'd say 5600ultra, if he likes nvidia. I'm not even sure what $150 gets you optimally these days with ATI. 9600 pro ultra? Thank you for your neighborliness. |
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