Nvidia on board 8200 + 8500gt

[banzai36]

hi .. home built pc has motherboard with onboard graphics a nvidia 8200 ( not that good )..the board has a PCI express x 16 slot...the motherboard has a thing called hybrid SLI tech...which apparently means i can run a seperate card together with the onboard graphics. but only two cards support it nvidia 8500gt and the nvidia 9800gt..as buget is tight i am looking at the 8500gt...my question is would it make a difference to the graphic performance or would buying another card to run on its own

 

[banzai36]

pc spec is amd 5400 64 dual core ..2gb 1066mhz ram..m/b asus m3n78-cm

 

[coozie7]

The 8500 is a terrible card for gaming;

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/best-graphics-card,review-31483-7.html
It`s about halfway down on the left side.

The HD4650 is much faster and cheap:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161262

If your budget can reach this is faster still:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131128

Neither requires an extra power connector and both would kick the s**t out of the 8500!

 

[banzai36]

hi mate..would it make a difference with hybrid sli....wont they run together on games and help out performance

 

[hsetir]

I guess hybrid sli give about 10% more than discrete solution. 8500gt 'd still remain there. Get 4650 @ $50 at newegg.

 

[banzai36]

cheers guys...just seen 4650 1gb GDDR2 and 4670 512mb GDDR3..which do u think

 

[turboflame]

The GDDR3 one is much faster.

 

[banzai36]

thankyou everyone most helpful

 

[banzai36]

just bought ati 4670 512 ddr3 and a extra 2gb of ram and run 3dbench and got a score of 12259 when i only got 1778 before...not a typo 1778...your help really worked cheers