Need Help Buying A New Vid Card
 

Alright so I'm on the market for a new video card and I was looking on Newegg at the Geforce 6800 512 mb and it was only 162.00$ so I was all "Oh awesome it sounds pretty sweet" but then all the reviews said it sucked ass, same with the Geforce 6600. So I need help finding a good vid card that's under 250$.

Edit: And a new cooling fan and/or heatsink for it, since I'm changing from a Geforce 256 mb 6200. And a new motherboard if necessary.

We were able to find a radeon 9800 for about 130 bucks...

Well that's not a whole lot much better than a 6200, so it wouldn't really be worth all of that money and time using it. I used to have one but it got fried in a storm.

7900s are about to crash i think. they're currently half the price i got mine for :(

Yea, because the 8800s are about to come out (or are they already out?)

yeah but he obviously isnt looking at being an early adopter now, is he?

I'm not really up to date on all this video card sp33k so if you guys could tell me what you just said...

7800, 7800 GT, 7900, etc. will all drop in price within the next few weeks because of the release of the next-gen 8800-series cards. Sit on yer cash for a few weeks and thank us for it, cuz prices are guaranteed to go down.

Sweet, so out of all those, which is the all around best? And how much do you think they'll go down in percentage on average? Thanks alot btw.

Don't bother with the 7800 or 6x00 range. If you need a good card OMGRIGHTNOW buy a 7900GT; they're almost $300 australian so they should be well under your budget. The x1900GT is also a great card, if you can get it cheaper than the 7900GT then do it. If you can wait a few months and get some more money wait for the 8800GT, which will be the best price/performance card available for quite some time.

I'll be getting this when its back in stock and the price drops a little more http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130065
When do you think the price will drop on this?

To pick the most worth while purchase we would need to know your PC specs and what resolution you want to use with what games you plan to play.

ati traditionall has stronger vpu's. i still dont get how they can get to like 90 C without exploding. ( with stock HS anyways. ) when the new dx 10 cards come out, ima get myself those. so if anyone is in the market for a new card when dx10 ati cards come out let me know, cause i have a ATi Radeon x1900xtx sitting in my pc right now. its good shit. i even have the original software that came with it.

btw Nvidia said janurary with the new dx10's right? I would only assume ATi would follow suit.

Sorry to barge in but I'm looking at replacing my system. I have an Intel P4 Socket 478. I'm not sure what type of ram I have but I have quite a lot (1gb)
I looking at buying a PCI Express so I can upgrade to all the new vid cards coming out. I was wondering if I might be able to take my Ram with me. I think it might be DDR1 but it might also be DDR2. Does PCI Express accept both?

get a radeon :lol:

ASUS P4GD1 is probably the only effective solution because that CPU is fairly out of date (computers eh?) but it only does DDR1.

Only newer intel/amd chips do DDR2, so you would be looking at a full CPU upgrade too if you wanted DDR2

http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1...67&modelmenu=1

I don't know the rest of your system's specs (DF) but if it's fairly up to date, get an ATi Radeon X1950 Pro (successor to X1900GT, slightly higher performance) or a Geforce 7900GTO (disguised 7900GTX). However I recommend waiting for the mainstream 8-series from nVidia or the R600 cores from ATi (Q1 07).

How much you want for that when DX10 comes out?

It will depend on market price. some where below new. I only just got it in april, so itll only be less then a year old, in a high ventallated system and never overclocked.

probably like 300 or so.

Bah! no ones gonna buy my GX2 :/