Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Need help finding new video card?

Ok, so I'm looking for a new video card. My computer is 3 years old and has a crappy built in 128mb card that just stopped working. I have a 300W power supply and an available PCI - Express x16 slot. I'd like to be able to play COD world at war smoothly. I think I may need ome more memory as well. Currently I only have 512mb ram. Any suggestions for a decent relatively inexpensive card? I don't want to go crazy because I'm buying a new puter in the next 6 months|||Let me put it to you this way. If you plan on "buying" another computer in the next 6 months, use this time wisely. Read and watch you tube videos about building your own system. If you don't and you just go buy one, you are going to end up in the same boat you are in now. Purchasing a $1000 system and still needing $500 worth of upgrades after.

Building is easy and you can build a killer desktop for gaming with as little as $900 tops, that would cost $1500 from many stores or companies.

When you build, I suggest an Intel q8200, unless you have the money for an i7 Intel platform. Get a P45 motherboard and 4gig kit of 1066 ram and 4870 graphics card. You could actually go ahead and buy the graphics card and PSU now and then have it when you start your build on the next one. Nvidia cards are good, but overbloated pricing.

If you really want to buy a cheap card now and wait, the 4670 is a solid card that needs no extra power from your PSU. Many reviews have it running it on Crysis on good settings and many other games runs smoothly with medium settings. Shop Newegg.com....|||I would recommend getting any card from EVGA. I myself have the 9600 GT and it works incredibly. I can run Cysis on all high settings. It is a single wide card so it works any OEM machine. It is also very cheap. Ranging from about $120 to $150. It will work perfectly in your machine! The 9800 GT would work even better, but it costs $30 to $50 more. But you should check around http://www.evga.com/ before picking your card out. They are cheap and have a great warranty!!!|||Get a AMD-ATI 4850 its faster than the 9800gt or the 9600gt and costs around 120-150 bucks. As for ram go to newegg.com and get 2gigs of value select ram and you have only spent around 180 bucks.

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