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Fokyooz   11-08-2008 at 05:12:06 AM

Hi, I would like to know which graphic card should be the best for my computer beford i'm buying. I would like to have a card i can run at is 100% perfomance in my mother board.

Here my computer description :

Computer Cases : Antec 300
Power Supply : Orion 585 Watt
Mother Board Name : ECS MCP61PM-HM
Memory : 2g PC-4200
CPU : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+

Here is the link page of my mother board : http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc [...] ct=3377275

And finaly i'm a canadian resident!

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aevm   11-08-2008 at 05:22:13 AM
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How much can you afford to pay for the graphic card?

What is your screen resolution?

What are your favorite games?

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dagger   11-08-2008 at 05:23:51 AM
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9800gt or 4830 should be able to run on your system without major bottlenecking. Any higher will likely be a waste.
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Produ [...] 6814130397
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Produ [...] 6814102803

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aevm   11-08-2008 at 05:30:04 AM
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Yeah, maybe 4850 at most.

 

Add two more GB of RAM.
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2 [...] y-better/1

 

Try www.ncix.com, www.newegg.ca, www.memoryexpress.com.

 

Edit: here's an article that shows how various CPUs bottleneck the best video cards available today:
http://www.legionhardware.com/docu [...] id=775&p=2
Your CPU is not that bad, but it's not a good match for GTX 280 or HD 4870 X2 either.

 


Message edited by aevm on 11-08-2008 at 05:32:47 AM
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Fokyooz   11-08-2008 at 05:47:32 AM
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Hi and thank for the quik response, for your question aevm my screen resolution is 1280*1024 and for the game i'm big fan of FPS and game like Command and Conquer and my price is 200$ not much.

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dagger   11-08-2008 at 05:24:40 PM
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Fokyooz wrote :

Hi and thank for the quik response, for your question aevm my screen resolution is 1280*1024 and for the game i'm big fan of FPS and game like Command and Conquer and my price is 200$ not much.



Overall performance at 1280x1024:
http://i6.techpowerup.com/reviews/Powercolor/HD_4830/images/perfrel_1280.gif
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews [...] 30/26.html

C&C has frame rate capped at a low 30. So if that's the only game you play, you can make do with less. For FPS, more powerful cards will be useful.

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invisik   11-08-2008 at 06:21:16 PM
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At that resolution your going to be more cpu bound. I would recommend these cards:
100$
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814131129
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814127381
150$
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814131125
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814162014

 

In my opinion I believe 4830 will be enough.


Message edited by invisik on 11-08-2008 at 06:21:40 PM
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Fokyooz   11-08-2008 at 10:54:37 PM
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Hi, i check on newegg and i should probably chose the 4850 : http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Produ [...] 6814102770

But i had again an other question if is Certified Windows Vista does it mean she cannot run on Windows Xp Pro?

PS : thx dagger for the table it been very helpful!

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dagger   11-08-2008 at 11:13:55 PM
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Fokyooz wrote :

Hi, i check on newegg and i should probably chose the 4850 : http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Produ [...] 6814102770

But i had again an other question if is Certified Windows Vista does it mean she cannot run on Windows Xp Pro?

PS : thx dagger for the table it been very helpful!



It should run just fine.

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Fokyooz   11-09-2008 at 01:03:23 AM
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So i had finaly take my final choice and i had buy this video card :
http://www.directcanada.com/produc [...] cture=EVGA with 2 120mm fan for my ANTEC 300 hundred for the frontal bay : http://www.directcanada.com/produc [...] ture=ANTEC

Thx at all of you guy for helping me in this choice!

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aevm   11-09-2008 at 01:04:24 AM
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It should run on XP, yeah, it will just be in DirectX 9 mode instead of DirectX 10. It's not important. It's just that some games (like Crysis for example) look a little better on Vista than on XP because Vista has DirectX 10 and XP only has DirectX 9. A lot of games (for example Bioshock) look exactly the same with either 9 or 10 anyway.

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