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Title: $500 - Tell me how to spend it
Post by: Morgorth 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?
Title: $500 - Tell me how to spend it
Post by: Delirium on October 02, 2005, 04:28:03 PM: Depends... do you have a AGP, PCI, or PCI-E slot for video?
Title: $500 - Tell me how to spend it
Post by: ALF 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
Title: $500 - Tell me how to spend it
Post by: Morgorth on October 02, 2005, 10:47:34 PM: PCI on an Intel mb, 2gb RAM, P4 processor running WXP
Title: $500 - Tell me how to spend it
Post by: Karnak 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?
Title: $500 - Tell me how to spend it
Post by: Morgorth 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
Title: Re: $500 - Tell me how to spend it
Post by: usuqa_mdiq on October 02, 2005, 11:54:24 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Morgorth
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?
Title: $500 - Tell me how to spend it
Post by: Karnak on October 03, 2005, 01:39:24 AM: Morgorth,

Can you provide the specific brand and model number? That would help us a lot.
Title: $500 - Tell me how to spend it
Post by: Roscoroo 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
Title: $500 - Tell me how to spend it
Post by: pellik on October 10, 2005, 04:34:21 PM: $500? 100 venti mochas from starbucks.
Title: $500 - Tell me how to spend it
Post by: JTs on October 12, 2005, 12:52:19 PM: 150 gallons of diesel for me
Title: $500 - Tell me how to spend it
Post by: Reschke 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.