video cards

[i nEeD HeLp]

what are any good video cards? i went on eBay to see if there were any good but cheap ones ( because im on a budget ) but didn't under stand a word of it. I've heard that nvidia makes good ones and AMD OR AMT or something. can you suggest any thing under 100 dollars. that is direct 10 compatible. its going to be used manly for gaming.
thanks.

 

[PennySavre]

If we are talking PCI-E... the 9600GT or the 9800GT/8800GT. I think it's like $100 for the 9600GT and maybe $115-$120 for the slightly better 9800GT/8800GT.

 

[Pinchy]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102715

 

[i nEeD HeLp]

thats great but dont know what it means

 

[mlee49]

If you wanna buy new the two people above covered anything I would suggest. If you want used, you can pick up a 3870 for $100 here: http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=72730

I would suggest the ATI 3870 over an Nvidia 9600, just my opinion.

 

[oli_ramsay]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133232

Get this^ Awesome card!

 

[erocker]

I'm using an Nvidia 8800GS on a 19" monitor and I'm impressed with it. It's a good card on the cheap!

 

[Pinchy]

Download http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/ and take a screenshot of the first page.

 

[phanbuey]

got 109??? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130401
better than 8800GT

 

[Darren]

I get the feeling that the thread starter feels too embarrassed to come back. Dude, we are trying to help you and we are devoting our personal time so I would appreciate it if you come back and let us help you further.

thats great but dont know what it means

Google whatever phrases or abbreviations you don't understand, we will help you but we can't spoon feed you

Edit: I'd recommend that you put off buying a video card for a few days/weeks until we can help you further otherwise you may get ripped off and pay far too much for a low performing card.

 

[JrRacinFan]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130362

Just my .02

 

[ChromeDome]

i have got the card for YOU

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130380

lifetime warranty covers overclocking

i got an email yesterday that gives this promo code for an additional $10 off, too

EMCBAACBD

its good until 10/8 and makes the price of the card $114, and $99 after mail in rebate. thats pretty good. free shipping

not quite under $100. but close enough and after rebate its $99.99



EDIT: is this going into the emachines in your specs?

 

[KainXS]

first of all you need to make sure that computer has PCI-E

for less than 80 I would say 8800GS
for around 100 I would say 8800GT

I just checked and TigerDirect is selling 8800GS's for 44 bucks
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3592053&CatId=3614

If you need a card for physx NOW IS THE TIME

 

[ChromeDome]

yeah that machine sounds....ancient.

might he get the same results from an 8600GTS or 9500GT?

 

[DaMulta]

first you need to open your computer.

Do you have a pci-e slot, or do you have just pci slots

or do you have a agp slot

the brown one is the agp slot

It sounds like you don't know to much about the hardware side, so lets start basic.

The next step is finding out how big your powerbox is by reading off the numbers to us.

The 12v is the one that we really need to know the most.

We can help, it's going to take a week to do this planing for what you need to do.





BTW my friend has the same cpu as you and plays all the latest games on high detail.

amd 939 amd 3200(same as you)

cheap Nvidia micro motherboard

2 gigs of DDR(just like you well maybe not 2gigs but the same kind of memory DDR)

with a PALiT non ref 8800GT 1GB video card PCI-E(memory btw is not the way to shop for a video card)

80gig ide hdd

XP windows

Plays all the latest games on high, even Crysis(which slows down in spots but overall runs pretty good)

 

[i nEeD HeLp]

im going with the Nvidia 8800GS thanks for all your help

(my internet was broken for a while)

 

[KainXS]

are you going for the one thats 45 dollars

with that xfx version you should be able to at least 680/1600/900 like the XXX versions

here are mines 24/7 clocks


the highest I have gone with these 8800GS's is 824/1975/1034, after that i start getting artifacts

 

[ChromeDome]

im going with the Nvidia 8800GS thanks for all your help

(my internet was broken for a while)

hope you don't have a quiet system because that card is LOUD. if you got the XFX. fan spins at 100% at all times on the XFX model. i guess you could change the fan / heatsink, but there goes your savings. i think XFX says they have a "fix" of some sort. couldn't say what it is, though. one reviewer said he's been building computers for 20 years and its the loudest thing he ever put in a case

i ordered one (my computer is quiet) and i thought i could live with it. but nope, a week later it was sent back at my expense for the evga model. i just couldn't take the whiny, whirly noise

 

[KainXS]

thats true, the first thing i did was remove that leafblower for a vf900