Best Video Card Selection?

[josmil1]

What is the best video card out of this list? Or could I do better for my computer? Is there anythin else I need to know before purchasing one these video cards?

http://www.asrock.com/mb/vga.asp?Model=775Dual-880Pro

My Specs

Monitor: DELL E173FP [Monitor] (17.1"vis, s/n D542858P091S, August 2005) 1280 x 1024
Motherboard = Asrock 775Dual-880 Pro
Intel (R)
Pentium 4 3.00 GHz
2.99GHz 2GB of RAM (DDR 2 PC2 4200)
Current Graphics Card = Matrox Graphics Millenium II PCI
Power Supply = Model LC-8460BTX, 450W
Windows XP Professional
Direct X 9.C

 

[murdoc]

ATI Radeon 4850 or Geforce 9800GTX+ should be suffice

 

[josmil1]

my motherboard doesn't support those video cards...only games i want to play on this computer is Gears of War, Far Cry, and Fear..so what video card would be sufficient that is supported on my mobo?

 

[murdoc]

hmm.. go with GeForce 7800GTX. It's the best card your mobo can support.

 

[josmil1]

bump...I can't find that video card on newegg or tigerdirect...can anyone help? is this really the best card that my mobo can support since i can't find it on those sites?

 

[murdoc]

Which country are you in?

According to asrock the best graphic card that your mobo supports is the 7800GTX. I rekon you upgrade your mobo and stay away from asrock because even though they're overclockable, their PCI-E video card is very limited. I went with asrock at first thinking it was cheap but I got screwed over and swapped it with a Asus P5Q motherboard. My mobo was 4CORE2DUAL-SATA which did not support PCI-E gen 2.0 bios which ment 8800GT cards and up were not supported and I had to flash it to a Gen1 Bios to get it to work which if I didn't have another mobo at home that supports Gen2 bios my card would've been toast.

 

[josmil1]

I'm in the USA, how bout the 8600GT or 8600GTS that are on the list also, aren't those better?

 

[murdoc]

Depends whether or not you're going with vista. If you're staying on XP till Windows 7 arrives, then 7800GTX will easily overpower a 8600GT or GTS.

The power of 8600GT/GTS is equivalent to 7600GT/GTS with a bit more power but not significant.

The major change in the 8000 series is that it includes DX10.

I think that series might have been discontinued.

I've found an ebay link that might help you

http://cgi.ebay.ca/NEW-BFG-7800GTX-256mb-PCIE-DVI-Video-Card-XP-Vista-7800_W0QQitemZ280276117911QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item280276117911&_trkparms=72%3A1215|39%3A1|66%3A2|65%3A12|240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

 

[metalweenis]

Actually, I'm quite sure the Radeon X1900XT is better than the 7800GTX in games. So go for that if you can find it. Either one will be fine.