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What Mid-Priced PC Video Card?
To my surprise, we have a new PC in the house. The kids' godfather sent them a new Dell XPS. Of course, I prohibit the kids from spending too much time playing Pokemon and Barbie on the PC. This is for their own good, but a side benefit of this is that I get to use the PC myself . . . I dug the steering wheel, pedals, joystick, etc out of the closet and have been reacquainting myself with my old PC games. Well, I guess these PC-thingys aren't that bad after all.
Anyway, the specs on this Dell are okay (Pentium D 2.8), but I notice the video card is a basic one (ATI Radeon X300). In case there are some good sales on video cards post-holiday, what video card would you guys recommend I pick up? I see that you can drop $500+ on video cards, but I want to spend no more than $150.
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12-23-2005, 09:09 PM
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IIRC the "X" series ATI's are their latest models and I am frankly not sure how much higher you can go than the X300 at a $150 price point. You very quickly get to the ~$200-300 mark just looking at ATI's middle-range stuff.
I would suggest trying it out on the software you will actually be using, before automatically replacing it...if the machine has enough RAM and a fast hard drive to go with that pretty strong CPU then you may be surprised, esp. if you haven't seen PC graphics much lately.
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12-23-2005, 09:25 PM
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I dropped less tha a c-note for an Nvidea Geforce 6200 from New Egg mainly cause I needed dual monitor capability. Had a very nice benefit of some excellant graphics acceleration for not a lot of bucks.
Depends on what games your playing really.
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I third the 6200 mines a bfgtech, this "entry" level card rocks.
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