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Ultrawolf
Mr. Roarke
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Joined: 04 Jul 2003 |
 Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 9:52 pm Post subject: Video Card Hunting |
Well I'm on the Huntdown for a new video card.
I have my eyes on This right now.
What I'm looking for is Geforce preferably.
256 memory.
Cheaper the better.
Right now that looks pretty good in terms of Cost vs Effectiveness.
Any suggestions? |
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Blackmage
Intragalactic Acquisitions Agent Mew
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Joined: 02 Feb 2004 |
| Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 12:54 am Post subject: |
I personally would stick with BFG cards, just becuase they are warrentied for life. Also I've never had a problem with my 5600 and I've had it for quite some time. |
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Shino
Fade into this fantasy, caught in the web of time
Age: 49
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Joined: 15 Sep 2002 |
| Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 8:49 am Post subject: |
The 6800 is easily the most powerful card under $200.
I've been looking at the 6600 GT. It's almost as good as the 6800. Not quite. But it's also $50 cheaper.
BFG is good. But XFX is also good. I've bought them before. All of their cards come with a lifetime warrenty. |
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Ultrawolf
Mr. Roarke
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Joined: 04 Jul 2003 |
| Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 11:16 am Post subject: |
Yea I love BFG, my last card was a 5200 FX.
XFX are warrantied for life too which is very nice.
I -might- think about saving my moolah and getting a 7800GT around Christmas or Early next year. |
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Blackmage
Intragalactic Acquisitions Agent Mew
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Joined: 02 Feb 2004 |
| Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 11:35 am Post subject: |
I so want a 7800, but that means i need PCI Express, which means new mobo, which means i wanna get a socket 939 mobo, which means i need to get a new cpu :/ |
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Ultrawolf
Mr. Roarke
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| Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 11:59 am Post subject: |
| Blackmage wrote: | | I so want a 7800, but that means i need PCI Express, which means new mobo, which means i wanna get a socket 939 mobo, which means i need to get a new cpu :/ |
I've got a socket 775.
I have a free PCI Express slot,
I'm really thinking about it. |
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GD
driven to tears
Age: 48
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Joined: 19 Jan 2005 |
| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 12:04 am Post subject: |
| Blackmage wrote: | | I so want a 7800, but that means i need PCI Express, which means new mobo, which means i wanna get a socket 939 mobo, which means i need to get a new cpu :/ |
There are still several decent Socket 754 motherboards available with PCI-Express. I was actually shopping them at Newegg recently. I'm using an Athlon 64 3000+ socket 754, which I am happy with, so I was going to go with a PCI-E mobo. They're just not really full-featured, so you're going to be limited to midrange boards.
Ultimately I decided to stick with AGP 8X awhile longer, until the middle of next year anyways. I have a pretty stable hardware combination that works well, and I'm hesitant to change something if it ain't broke.  |
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Blackmage
Intragalactic Acquisitions Agent Mew
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 12:54 pm Post subject: |
I'm dilly dallying aroundwith my current setup until the Athlon FX chips become reasonibly priced, the 57 is just a going to be insane with two 7800 cards |
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GAAZ
MOD Black Sheep Commander
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Joined: 14 Oct 2002 |
| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 1:49 pm Post subject: |
I'm partial to ATI Radeon cards...While not waranteed for life I have never had a problem with my card and it's still $189 in stores and it's over 3 years old.
I did have to replace the fan but now the sucker looks even cooler. |
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Blackmage
Intragalactic Acquisitions Agent Mew
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 2:17 pm Post subject: |
I like ATI as much as I like Intel, which is not very much. |
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