New Graphic Card

[ell46]

I have 2 questions -

 

I'm in the market for a new top notch graphic's card that will work with WinXP (I don't want to use Win7 yet) what is the best around for gaming at the moment, assuming we aren't on the verge of some new breakthrough in the next month or so?

 

I'm assuming that when I get this spiffy new GC I will need more memory, how much would you suggest I get?

 

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[bben46]

You may also want to check your power supply to see if it can support the Graphics card you choose. Many big name systems such as Dell and HP put in the cheapest power supply they can get away with. Many can barely run the stuff that comes with the system.

[ell46]

The power supply should be OK it was way more than I needed at the time and the mother board should be fine as well. I've never had a shop bought PC, unfortunately the place that we normally buy our bits and bobs from has gone and I don't trust places like PC World which is the only place locally I can buy parts from, so it's going to have to be Internet shopping, I have had a surf, but everyone claims theirs is THE best :confused: so I figured it would be safer to ask here than trust all the advertising gumph.

[Thor.]

Each make ATI or Nvidea is a good choice, if you want power efficiency go with ati, if you want shier performance go with Nvidia. Its up to you to decide.

 

Witch one are you getting.

[Dark0ne]

If you want more power efficient cards, more stable but less frequent drivers and powerful cards, choose ATi. If you want similarly powerful cards (not more powerful) and more frequent drivers that may or may not break your PC (has happened recently) and don't care about your card being hot and power hungry, choose nvidia.

 

Ideally we need to know your budget and your motherboard to give you a proper answer.

[Thor.]

If you want more power efficient cards, more stable but less frequent drivers and powerful cards, choose ATi. If you want similarly powerful cards (not more powerful) and more frequent drivers that may or may not break your PC (has happened recently) and don't care about your card being hot and power hungry, choose nvidia.

 

Ideally we need to know your budget and your motherboard to give you a proper answer.

 

Please dark one try not to be biased, its his decision. The driver updates are a good thing. Unlike ati.

 

Sometimes there is the odd problem like your 8600gts had. Not all cards had it remember.

 

My 470 is badass i had to say it because its true :thumbsup: Runs Cryisis warhead amazing like, in my case it idles around 40c and during game play around 65C :thumbsup:

[hoshi23]

I have an ATI 4890 HD Zerotherm from Club 3D and its prefect for my needs. Wouldnt want any other card over it.

 

Make sure you do some good research before you buy yours.

 

Check benchmarks in comparions with other cards, prices, individual components, temperature, noise and power consumption.

They are all very important.

 

Some of resellers are quite careless with some their products or

they try to cheat you abit.

 

Like you can have an Nvidia card for 300 bucks, but the fan on it is only 5 bucks worth it and one week later you cannot properly hear anymore on your right ear among other stuff. :down:

 

So take your time. :thumbsup:

[nosisab]

Maybe a bit more speculative than a real answer, ATI and Nvidia seems to be going toward two different directions. Nvidia cards in games did not put ATI behind, actually the issues it experimented with the new process let it behind at the cost/benefit factor since it could not even launch it's flagship in the whole. Still that crippled version is enough to face the concurrent (once we do not compare with the dual card version).

 

The difference pointed above being while ATI is going for sheer number in highly dedicated processors (they are far above thousand by now), Nvidia is focusing in hundreds of multipurpose OpenCL/CUDA/C capable processors, able to massive parallel programing. So it points it's going for a more professional segment all the while keeping a competitive market in the games segment.

 

For now, ATI gained an edge and a free move and has the leading in that games market (cost x benefit wise).

[ell46]

If you want more power efficient cards, more stable but less frequent drivers and powerful cards, choose ATi. If you want similarly powerful cards (not more powerful) and more frequent drivers that may or may not break your PC (has happened recently) and don't care about your card being hot and power hungry, choose nvidia.

 

Ideally we need to know your budget and your motherboard to give you a proper answer.

 

Budget isn't an issue :smile:

 

processor is AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3400+

motherboard is K8V SE Deluxe

power supply is Enermax 600w

memory 2.5gb

current graphic card is Radeon X800 series.

 

I've been looking at getting the ATI 4890 but unsure if the motherboard and processor are up to it now, so might have to replace these as well.

[Balagor]

If you want more power efficient cards, more stable but less frequent drivers and powerful cards, choose ATi. If you want similarly powerful cards (not more powerful) and more frequent drivers that may or may not break your PC (has happened recently) and don't care about your card being hot and power hungry, choose nvidia.

 

Ideally we need to know your budget and your motherboard to give you a proper answer.

 

Budget isn't an issue :smile:

 

processor is AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3400+

motherboard is K8V SE Deluxe

power supply is Enermax 600w

memory 2.5gb

current graphic card is Radeon X800 series.

 

I've been looking at getting the ATI 4890 but unsure if the motherboard and processor are up to it now, so might have to replace these as well.

 

Hello @ell46, long time no see. If you still play DAO, you wont see much increase of your performance, unless you upgrade your processor too, and that´s not possible, since it has socket 754, wich is not available anymore. So new motherboard new CPU new GFX= new PC :confused:

I think that a new GFX on this board would be waste of good money to be honest

And don´t listen to @Dark0ne, I have had Nvidia cards for 20 years now, and never had a problem :thumbsup: