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Old 03-27-2006, 02:59 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Ok, with my birthday closin in, and a lil money ive been saving i can acually get a GOOD video card and stop reliaing on my FX5200 which is decent enough for the time being, but i want to play games like BF 2, FEAR, CoD2 etc... and well i have around $200 dollars to spend and i was lookin at a few and i found 1 with a power supply (which i also need since mine is a stock 300 watt) for around $175 which gives me some money to play around with which i was planning to get more ram with, i found a deal for $50 for 1GB of PC3200 *BREEEAAATHHHH*, heres the links CLICKY 1
or just a video card and some other random psu ill get from newhere
CLICKY 2 which is also the wierdest looking video card ive ever seen?????
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Old 03-27-2006, 03:19 AM   #2 (permalink)
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ehh...the 6800xt isn't that great of a deal. I'm sure you can get a better combination of vid card/ psu. Something like the 6800GS, or x850xt is definetly in your reach.
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Old 03-27-2006, 03:24 AM   #3 (permalink)
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I wouldn't trust a gig of RAM for $50.. must be really shitty RAM, unless it's like Corsair ValueSelect, which won't crap out on you.
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Old 03-27-2006, 03:37 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Haha ya I would not buy a gig of RAM for only 50 bucks. Think about it bro: there is a reason why it is only 50 bucks!

As for your video card, Liuliuboy is right. Check out the 6800GS line (very popular now-a-days for it good performance/cost ratio). I have not checked out the mid-range ATi cards because everyone recommends the 6800GS way too much on this forum!
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Old 03-27-2006, 03:47 AM   #5 (permalink)
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u dont need really good ram if u dont plan to overclock though
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Old 03-27-2006, 03:51 AM   #6 (permalink)
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u dont need really good ram if u dont plan to overclock though
nobody is telling him to get really good ram. We are telling him to get ram thats worth more than 50 dollars cause it will probably be very poor quality.
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Old 03-27-2006, 04:03 AM   #7 (permalink)
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$90 ram - $40 (rebate) = $50 shoulda specified
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Old 03-27-2006, 01:05 PM   #8 (permalink)
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$90 ram - $40 (rebate) = $50 shoulda specified
Ok, better. What make is it?
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Old 04-07-2006, 12:56 AM   #9 (permalink)
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http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...0&Sku=ULT31664
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Old 04-07-2006, 01:32 AM   #10 (permalink)
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exactly. house brand ram. you might want to spend a little more.

I'd go looking for a X850XT, you can get them for $154 after rebate at newegg.com. It beats the performance of a 6800GS easily.

Talking about sites to look at, tigerdirect.com is not the best. I still haven't gotten my $90 rebate from them from August 2005. Newegg.com is known around here as the top notch website. Another great site to look at is zipzoomfly.com. There they have free 2nd day shipping on all items under a certain weight (ie, not a 5.1 speaker set). Anyhow, have a great b-day!
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