
If you plan on gaming as much as working in max or more, get yourself 8800gt 512 ram (270$). If you’ve got a bit more money go for 3870 (230$) its like 3850 but with 512ram default and higher clocks on everything(faster).Ħ. ATi 3850 256ram for ~150$ is 3x faster than 8600gts in games and ~10x faster in 3d vertex performance (read 3ds max viewport performance)Ĥ. 8600 and lower nVidia cards are wasted money because of 3ģ. make sure you have pcie motherboard not an old agp one.Ģ. Once you have your new card remember to disable the on board video in your BIOS so your board uses the new card without conflict.ġ. You may also want to check your motherboard manufacturer's site to see if there are any BIOS updates you haven't installed and whether that might add some enhanced support for video hardware.
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So you'll want to make sure and check your user manual to see what card type (SLI, AGP, PCI, PCI-e) the board supports. You also have to take into consideration the fact that you already have a system you are going to fit the new card to. You can find user ratings for online stores by searching also, Bizrate and other product search engines can be helpful as well.Ĭompare prices at various stores, performance of competing cards and user feedback for an idea of how others are faring with them. I've bought from Newegg, Mwave, Monarch Computers (no longer in business) and a number of others. Often you'll get links to forums where these things are being discussed and you may also come up with some links to this forum also since these things are discussed here. Simple terms like "graphics cards for under $200" or "cheap SLI performance" or other relevant terms will get you started. Mr Shade, think what I'd do in your place is to research the various options you have using Google. Quite overstated Boomerang (in reference to me)!
