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Need help choosing video card
Who can tell me what PCIE card to buy for my system and in my budget range
between $75 - $150 ! System info Quad core 2.4ghz 3gb ram Video card right now NVidia 7350 LE ( doesn't do anything good in this system right now ) Let me know what to buy and why ??? Henry |
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Need help choosing video card
'Henry' wrote:
| Who can tell me what PCIE card to buy for my system and in my budget range | between $75 - $150 ! _____ A meaningful answer depends on Why do you wish to change what you have? What can you not do with your present card. What operating system do you use / intend to use in the future? Do you want DX10 capability? Do you want superior DVD playback? Do you play games? Which? Do you edit video? What monitor do you use? Do you plan to change your system soon? Why lay out the money for 3 GBytes of ram and a quad core, then stint on a video card? Do you want video out? In the absence of such information, any suggestions are wild guesses. You want a wild guess? Wild guess #1. Save your money 'til you can purchase a GeForce 8800 GTX / GS or two. Wild guess #2. GeForce 8600 GT / GTS Wild guess #3. Go to an etailer website, find the video card section, sort in price order, pick one. Phil Weldon "Henry" wrote in message ... | Who can tell me what PCIE card to buy for my system and in my budget range | between $75 - $150 ! | | System info Quad core 2.4ghz | 3gb ram | Video card right now NVidia 7350 LE ( doesn't do anything good in this | system right now ) | | Let me know what to buy and why ??? | | Henry | |
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"Henry" wrote in message
... Who can tell me what PCIE card to buy for my system and in my budget range between $75 - $150 ! System info Quad core 2.4ghz 3gb ram Video card right now NVidia 7350 LE ( doesn't do anything good in this system right now ) Let me know what to buy and why ??? Henry You spend all that money on a quad core system and now want to go cheap on a video card. You don't say what your going to use this video card for ? Being you want to spend only 75-150 on a video card. your not going to see much Improvement over what you have now. Unless you like to take a chance on eBay. |
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Need help choosing video card
Henry wrote:
Who can tell me what PCIE card to buy for my system and in my budget range between $75 - $150 ! System info Quad core 2.4ghz 3gb ram Video card right now NVidia 7350 LE ( doesn't do anything good in this system right now ) Let me know what to buy and why ??? Henry While it is nice to frame the question in simple dollar figures, it also helps to know a few other things. Your amount of RAM suggests you are interested in Vista. Maybe you want DX-10, and that makes a big difference to the choices. In some ways, the playing field is not nearly as nice looking at DX-10, simply because games are focusing too much on the high end, and the cards are not nicely distributed in entry, mid-level, and high-level like they used to be. So, my random pick of the day is this: Foxconn FV-N79GM2D2-HP GeForce 7950GT 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 $229 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814186006 Why Foxconn ? Well, these cards are getting harder to find. And Foxconn still offers one. There was an Asus one, but I picked this instead. Why did I pick a $229 card ? Because $150 isn't enough. The 7950GT is nice, because its power dissipation is 61 watts. http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/vid...e7950gt_3.html In this benchmark, performance is twice as good as a 7600GT. http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphi...16 &chart=311 It is a DX-9 card, so if you are after DX-10, better talk to your bank manager about a loan :-( Paul |
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On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 00:05:02 -0400, Paul wrote:
It is a DX-9 card, so if you are after DX-10, better talk to your bank manager about a loan :-( My 8600GT does DX10 and about fits his budget. Am happy with it, although I have no idea how it will handle Bioshock in DX10 yet. -- Andrew, contact via http://interpleb.googlepages.com Help make Usenet a better place: English is read downwards, please don't top post. Trim replies to quote only relevant text. Check groups.google.com before asking an obvious question. |
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