I've been deciding on which video card to get. nvidia 9600 or the 8800. Which would be a better bang for my buck, also costing around 100$, more or less. If you can recommend me some good ones, I'll appreciate it. I'm updating from a 7600 gt btw.
The 9600 GT or GSO (Or GSO 512) I am currently running the Nvidia 8800 GT and am completely satisfied with it, However the 9000 series of gfx cards by Nvidia are allot cheaper now and you could probably find a 9600 GT for about 100 If you have exacly 100 to spend go with the 9600 GT by MSI. I have been using MSI for a while now and have never been let down. If you like newegg here is the link, If not you can find it elsewhere. Also, If you really don't want to spend $100 you can find them cheaper with some other brands, however I can not speak for the quality compared to the $10 you would save. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814127333 May want to make sure your are fully compatible, I do not know a whole lot about your setup.
Hmm, it is 15$ cheaper than the PnY 8800gt that I saw. I do get most of my stuff in newegg. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814133205 After some searching, I did find this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...;Tpk=8800%20msi I don't know if this is a "better" deal or not but if it isn't, I'd rather spend that extra 10$ for the other card. Here are my specs if it's needed: Athlon 64 x2 4400+ 2 GB DDR ram Enhance PS-E51560 GH 500 watts And my PC is the gateway gt4016. Had to change pretty much everything in it except the motherboard. yep, it's a pretty old rig. edit: after some searching on various forums, I found this as one of the recommended ones with a price tag of 80 bucks http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814102792 I haven't used any cards besides nvidia so I was wondering if this is as good as the 2 cards I've mentioned.
I rather dislike Radeon, but that is just a bias on my part. Of the first 2 go with http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814133205 I would still recomend the 9600 series only because the 8800 GT series what you are buying is mostly leftovers lol (my thought) as newegg recently sold out of my GFX Card and wont get anymore. Which sucks because I was finally ready to buy the second one for the SLI lol. Anyway, for the price difference and what you get go with the 9600 (Not the the 8800GT isn't phenomenal, I still have not maxed out what I can do with just one of em) of that link in this reply if you want to go with the 8800 GT. I can not say if it is fully compatible without knowing your motherboard.
lol I see, I might just go with the 9600, that extra $15 includes S+H. Here's my motherboard spec http://support.gateway.com/s/MOTHERBD/FIC/...05553sp26.shtml
You may not be able to get any of those I posted as your MOBO Supports PCIE x16 and the GFX cards are PCIE 2.0x16 Let me do some digging and see if I can find anything for you.
The list below go in order of what you should concider. They range from 80-125$ Note: On most of these the memory will not be supported on your computer, however the gfx card SHOULD still run fine. Nvidia 9800 GT Series $125 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814127387 Nvidia 8800 GTS $90 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814127328 Well, I actually thought the list would be bigger... Anyway, those SHOULD work. Always get a second opinion though.
argh, forgot about the pci slots, never knew they were updated for newer cards -_-" Might consider that 8800gts, just really need a new card that can run the newer games more smoothly. But I'll wait for other options. thanks for the help.
8800GS/9600GSO 384mb --- 3850 9600GSO 512mb --- 8800GTS 320mb 8800GS/9600GSO 768mb(with gDDR3-1000) 9600GSO 512mb 9600GT ---- 8800GTS 640mb ---- 3870 8800GS/9600GSO 768mb(with gDDR3-1800) * 9800GT ---- 8800GT * 4830* 8800GTX 8800 ultra 8800GTS 512mb 9800GTX 9800GTX+ 4850 *** GTX 260 * 4870 * GTX 280 GTX 285 4850x2 4870x2 --- GTX 295 the further down the list the better card. good bang/$ placed with an asterik since $100 is your budget... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814162007 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814131129 there you go
Somebody likes Radeon =D Are you sure his motherboard will support radeon GFX Cards, Mine tends to have issues with them and it is a similar chipset. Also the GFX Cards in your link are for PCIE 2.0 X16 he only has PCIE X16 correct me if I am wrong but 2.0 will not work unless the PCIE conforms to 2.0x16 Final Note: The memory will not affect you on any of these cards (even the ones I listed) as they are DDR3 and you only can support DDR
AMD kicked ass this round(after failing hard the last 1.5 years), they're making chips which are very close to what nvidia has as far as performance goes... but at half or even a third the manufacturing cost and they're passing the savings down to the consumer. The 4870 costs less to make than the 9800GTX+ and yet it scales much better. the 4870 comes within 10% of the GTX280 performance wise and yet it is only half the size. make sure you have your drivers set up properly, I'm predicting a driver issue. and PCI-e 2.0 is fully backwards compatible. If the board is only PCI-e 1.1 compliant, the card will go to the lower mode.(PCI-e 1.0 was short lived and most refer to 1.1 as 1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCIE trust me, AMD kicked ass, they're $80 card beats my 8800GTS 640mb which cost me over $300 around a year and a half ago
I think you misunderstand me, I would choose AMD over Intel any day, I however don't care much for Radeon (old GFX Card) I currently am running an Nvidia 8800GT (SLI) :/. Anyway, thanks for the lesson I was unaware that 2.0 is compatable with x16. You just following me around and correcting me on everything? Lol its sort of fun.
heh... well unless phenomII is a big improvement over phenomI(supposedly it is, though I have this odd suspicion that it'll end up performing much like conroe/kentsfield that's 2006 status, two years behind) I don't think there's much of a reason to favor AMD over intel, intel has the teachnological advantage at this point. hoping phenomII isn't the failure which phenomI was, since nehalem scales VERY VERY VERY well. plus if you have dual 8800s, there isn't really much worth upgrading to, maybe dual GTX 260s(or a 4870x2 or GTX 295 when it's released.) but that's pricey and probably not worth it. what 20-50% more performance for only an arm and a leg...
