best buy replacement card

[jtdragon]

My Nvidia 9800 GT 512 card went out, have service plan with best buy. they replaced the card with a BFG 9800 GT 1 GB with EcoIntelligence low Power design. before with my old card my FR stayed in the 50's range most of the time, now 30's and 40's. talked to BB and was told this is a better card than my old one because of the 1 Gi of Me. Anyone know anything about this card.


this is in a HP Pavilion Elite M9350F PC
               AMD9850 Quad-core
               6 Gi mem
               Vista 64
Has always run AH well.

[guncrasher]

think they are mistaken.  think the 9800gtrx+ is better if you have the ps and the space.

semp

[Delirium]

Just because the card has more memory does not mean the card is faster, only that it has more memory.

If you can find the exact make/model of the cards we could help you much more.

[Masherbrum]

My Nvidia 9800 GT 512 card went out, have service plan with best buy. they replaced the card with a BFG 9800 GT 1 GB with EcoIntelligence low Power design. before with my old card my FR stayed in the 50's range most of the time, now 30's and 40's. talked to BB and was told this is a better card than my old one because of the 1 Gi of Me. Anyone know anything about this card.


this is in a HP Pavilion Elite M9350F PC
               AMD9850 Quad-core
               6 Gi mem
               Vista 64
Has always run AH well.

The old card was faster Architecture.   90% of the 1GB cards are slower than their 512MB counterparts.   Might want to ask if they can cut you the difference on a 512MB card.  

[guncrasher]

This graphics card employs an EcoIntelligence low power design to provide lush images and brilliant graphics while conserving power.
What's Included

    * BFG NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT 1GB GDDR3 PCI Express Graphics Card
    * DVI-to-VGA adapter, software CD-ROM
    * Owner's manual

Product Features

    * Powered by the GeForce 9800 GT graphics processing unit (GPU)
      With a texture fill rate of 30.8 billion per second for high-quality graphics power.
    * 1GB GDDR3 memory
      With 57.6GB/sec. of memory bandwidth to provide the memory needed for visual realism.
    * PCI Express x16 interface
      Along with a core clock speed of 550MHz and 1375MHz shader clock for high-speed processing. PCI Express 2.0 compliant.
    * Compatible with HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc formats
      To ensure high-definition compatibility.
    * NVIDIA SLI technology
      Allows you to connect more than 1 graphics card to your system for improved performance (additional graphics cards not included).
    * DirectX 10 and OpenGL 2.1-compatible GPU and powerful unified architecture
      For enhanced gameplay.
    * NVIDIA Forceware
      Provides enhanced performance and speed, stunning visual quality and unified driver architecture (UDA) to ensure forward and backward compatibility with hardware and software.
    * 2 dual-link DVI-I connectors
      With HDTV output for easy connectivity.
    * HDCP-enabled HDMI support
      With adapter (not included).
    * EcoIntelligence Low Power Design
      Conserves power while providing exceptional graphics display.
specs for his new card. 

semp

[jtdragon]

Thanks guy's, don't know with happen but last night played for 5 hours, the card cave me a 60 FR and stayed in that range all night, set evrything to Max, have never done that before and it still stayed in the 50FR range. Was real happy with it. This is a small card that will fit in cases that the old 8800/9800 would not and only needs a 350W power supply, no 6 pin connector needed. And no noise. Maybe BFG has done something right. will update how it runs in a couple of days.

[jtdragon]

I'm very happy with the new card, Been on missions allmorning and only time FR went below 50 was on a couple of very large GV missions then it was mid 40's. It is a lot better than my old 9800 GT. Hard to belivie.  This is with everything turned on and sliders Max.
Learned that when I sign on it takes a couple of minutes to get to full power.

[Spikes]

Glad it is working out for you now!