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Offline Morgorth

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« on: October 02, 2005, 03:53:23 PM »
I've got $500 bucks to blow and have decided a video card is what I need as I am running off the motherboard right now. What is the one to buy?
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Offline Delirium

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« Reply #1 on: October 02, 2005, 04:28:03 PM »
Depends... do you have a AGP, PCI, or PCI-E slot for video?
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« Reply #2 on: October 02, 2005, 05:17:26 PM »
I also wouldnt spend anywhere near $500 if your going AGP, since your likely not going to benefit from anything past a geforce 6800gt if thats the case, and yuo can get those for $250.

But we need to know your system specs to be sure
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« Reply #3 on: October 02, 2005, 10:47:34 PM »
PCI on an Intel mb, 2gb RAM, P4 processor running WXP
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« Reply #4 on: October 02, 2005, 11:25:50 PM »
Just PCI?  Ooch.  That'll limit your choices.

Frankly, having just looked it over I'd recommend you save your money and then get a new motherboard and video card at the same time.  PCI just isn't really used for video cards anymore.

You're sure it isn't a PCI-E slot?  You have a lot of memory for an older system, or is it a workstation or server board?
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Offline Morgorth

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« Reply #5 on: October 02, 2005, 11:32:30 PM »
The motherboard is less than 6 months from brand new, I only just finished building the system. So I guess it's E and I'm looking at the wrong peice of info
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« Reply #6 on: October 02, 2005, 11:54:24 PM »
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I've got $500 bucks to blow and have decided a video card is what I need as I am running off the motherboard right now. What is the one to buy?


what you got?
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Offline Karnak

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« Reply #7 on: October 03, 2005, 01:39:24 AM »
Morgorth,

Can you provide the specific brand and model number?  That would help us a lot.
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« Reply #8 on: October 03, 2005, 04:28:04 AM »
it may have it in the 1st part of the dxdiag file also , and in system info file
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« Reply #9 on: October 10, 2005, 04:34:21 PM »
$500? 100 venti mochas from starbucks.
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Offline JTs

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« Reply #10 on: October 12, 2005, 12:52:19 PM »
150 gallons of diesel for me
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« Reply #11 on: October 13, 2005, 12:34:35 AM »
Don't spend it just send it to me and I will send you a picture of all the liquor and beer it bought.
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