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NidPuterGuy
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| What video card to get for a new computer? |
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I'm going to build a new computer soon and will be getting a video card for it. My price range is 100-170. What card fits the bill? There are so many different cards. ATI and NVidia are not making it easy either. I think they want you to buy the crap cards thinking your getting a good one. Instead of them just listing them 6800, 6900, 7000 and you knowing that the higher number is better they try to confuse you. Anways, all help is appreciated! |
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Neo_Genesis
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Joined: 10 Aug 2003
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Location: The Netherlands |
Here you can watch an overview with details from the Radeon 9800 series. There are several of the 9800, each a tad better then the other. Here you see the Radeon 9800Pro with a price range between the $133.00 - $267.51. I suggest you look for a cheaper version of the 9800Pro there, and it will still be remarkable good.
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My suggestion is that you try to find a GeForce 6600GT, the performance is roughly the same as a Radeon 9800 Pro, but it can vary from game to game. But it has other advantages, being a more modern card, the most obvious is Shader Model 3.0 support.
Try finding a 6600GT with 256 MB GDDR3 RAM, it's probably the best choice for you. And if you're going for PCI-E instead of AGP (which would be a good choice nowadays), the 9800 Pro is out of the game, since it's AGP-only.
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Danicek
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Joined: 15 Dec 2001
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I suggest NVidia 6600GT (or ATi X700?). The 6600 GT is probably better 3D games performer. |
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Mon Jul 25, 2005 11:06 am |
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Gorath
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Joined: 03 Sep 2001
Posts: 6327
Location: NRW, Germany |
We had this discussion before. I donīt think the situation has changed that much in the last 6 months. Maybe you should do a forum search.
A 6600GT is good, but itīs loud and it is (was ?) not as reliable as a Radeon 9800Pro. Make sure you get a 3 year warranty with your card.
The next bigger card could have an even better price/performance ratio. Itīs worth checking out. A 6800LE (was it LE ?) is slightly faster than a 6600GT even in the default configuration. You have a fair chance to enable the disabled features with a simple piece of software. If only half the pipelines arenīt broken and were only disabled due to market demand then you have a nice afterburner for an already fast card.
The equivalent ATI cards are also relatively cheap nowadays, and the new nVidia generation hits the shelves very soon, so think carefully.
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NidPuterGuy
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I've heard rumors of the 6600 card having power demand, fan size/noise and heating issues. Some of those apply to the new 6800 from what I understand? I've been looking into the X800 cards but like one person sorta said they don't support some of the new things that NVidia cards do. Still the X800 seems like a very good card. |
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Yeah, if you found a X800 Pro that was cheap enough it would really be a great buy.
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