[Solved] Video card???

I would like to know if anyone might be able to steer me in the right direction. I have a MSI-7100 MOBO with Nforce 4 chipset. I have a AMD athlon 64 ( Winchester ) but I am going to be upgrading my cpu to a dual core soon. My main question is I want to get another video graphics card but don't know where to start. I currently have a Geforce 6800, my motherboard is SLI equipped as well. But I dont want to spend too much money. I would like to go with ATI but its not a biggie.

Thanks

I have 500 Watt Apevia power supply. 1x24 pin main power, 2x sata, 2x floppy, 1x ATX 12 V 4 pin, 6x4 pin peripheral, 1x pci express.

Alright now what is your GPU budget? Knowing this will allow us to focus in on the cards that would do best in your system and within your price range.

Is the power supply I have good enough?

From a GeForce 6800?

Night and day.

EDIT:
http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] 404-7.html

Check this chart. Notice the position of your 6800 against the HD 4850.

If your monitor has a resolution of 1920 x 1080 then I'd suggest the 1 GB model. Or if you plan to use Anti-Aliasing (AA) in your games.

If it is 1680 x 1050 or smaller or you don't expect to use AA, then the 512 MB model will suffice.


The bit depth won't change between the 2 models as they are 256 bit GPU's. It is related to how much bandwidth or data the GPU can process at one time.

Not a problem. Enjoy the card.