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New Graphics card dont know what to choose for my birthday!

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meadyboy113   05-25-2006 at 03:59:03 PM

Hi i want to buy a new graphics card for my birthday but I dont know what one get. My pc is a Advent 3519.

3.4 GHZ H-T
1024MB RAM PC2700 <- I might upgrade to 2048MB
250GB HDD
16x DVD, DVD-RW DUAL

My current graphics card is a Geforce FX5700 256MB. The graphics cards compatible with my motherboard are:

http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/li [...] 9&tabid=GC

Maybe the X800 GTO AGP 256MB or X1600 PRO AGP 512MB

I would be grateful if you could get back to me as fast as you could

Thank you so much

Richard

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unbiased4u   05-25-2006 at 04:25:39 PM
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X800GTO FTW! It should be the best out of that group. The 512MB won't help the X1600Pro that much anyway...

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meadyboy113   05-25-2006 at 04:36:25 PM
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OK thanks i did buy a Club 3D Nvidia Geforce 6600 AGP 256MB for £68 off ebay but it wasn't compatible with my motherboard but you learn from your mistakes!

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chuckshissle   05-25-2006 at 05:01:37 PM
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Im with the X800GTO and also get another 1Gb to have a total of 2Gb of ramage for better gaming performance.

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macer1   05-25-2006 at 06:08:29 PM
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2 gb of memory is only helpfun in a very small number of games, do your research first before you go buy another gig of ram just to play half-life 2.....


oblivion and BF2 are the only games that I know that actually can use the extra gig.

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Scougs   05-30-2006 at 07:42:09 PM
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If you go with a Sapphire AGP X800GTO you would likely be able to unlock 4 pixel pipelines in it for a total of 16, if you are intereseted in that kind of thing.

I have one of the Sapphire cards unlocked and I am pretty pleased with it. It isn't the fastest card available but it didn't break the pocket book like they do.

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