Bad video card? What to buy?
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In your price range a 6850 is your best bet.
SSMUFF
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The 6850 pretty much beats it at everything. The 550ti is pretty much a dog.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4221/nvidias-gtx-550-ti-coming-up-short-at-150/1
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4221/nvidias-gtx-550-ti-coming-up-short-at-150/1
Okedokey
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The 560ti is not a dog, thats rediculous.
You could also consider getting another 9800 and put them in SLI
mtb211
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SuperDuperMe
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i still think that a 6850 would be better than a 550ti but a 560ti would be better than both
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4221/nvidias-gtx-550-ti-coming-up-short-at-150/7
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2011/03/15/nvidia-geforce-gtx-550-ti-1gb-review/7
there are a few instances where the 550ti beats a 6850 but not many from what i can see but i didnt really research in depth. i think the 550ti is more expensive than the hd 6850 too, at least round here.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4221/nvidias-gtx-550-ti-coming-up-short-at-150/7
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2011/03/15/nvidia-geforce-gtx-550-ti-1gb-review/7
there are a few instances where the 550ti beats a 6850 but not many from what i can see but i didnt really research in depth. i think the 550ti is more expensive than the hd 6850 too, at least round here.
SuperDuperMe
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It will definitely suffice for CS:S and you general needs but you may struggle in a year or so. Still solid choice if its only going to see limited use 
SuperDuperMe
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It wont suffer with CS:S but if you fancy grabbing another game, like bf3 or cod 6,000,000 or w.e then it could start to struggle on anything other than low.
If all you intend to do is light gaming you should be good.
Really depends on what youll be doing with it in the year/years coming But from the look of ebay they generally sell used quite close to retail prices so you should be good to sell up and move on
If all you intend to do is light gaming you should be good.
Really depends on what youll be doing with it in the year/years coming
But from the look of ebay they generally sell used quite close to retail prices so you should be good to sell up and move on 
S.T.A.R.S.
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Only 3 years old and it died already?
Mine is 7 years old and it still works perfectly.I just changed the thermal paste on it few hours ago.The old thermal paste was so damn dry that it took me only 30 seconds to take it off lol.Now after 7 years of using the same thermal paste I think she has done her job.I did try a game Doom 3 on old paste today before I replaced it and it works pretty good.But now when I put the new and better thermal paste,games work even better.Not a lot of course,but a little better.
The only thing is that my 7 years old graphic card does not support pixel shader above version 2.0 so I cannot play the newest games,but that's ok since there are TONS of games made for pixel shader 1.0,1.1 and especially 2.0 so until I play all the good games made for shader 2.0,it will take few more years lol
Hopefully the graphic card I have will work for the next few years
It would be cool if it reaches 10 years ^^ Well...3 more years left...let's hope it will survive 3 more years ^^Cheers!
If you look at his link, plus what I said (550ti). Not the 560ti.
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SSMUFF
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well I thought it should have lasted longer but oh well. I hope the new card fixes it otherwise I am not sure what it is. No way of telling if the MB or anything is bad at this point. Like I said before the only reason I thought it was the gfx card was that the monitor works with my Dell laptop. Before it died the computer would load but then the screen would go all crazy and then it looked to freeze up. Then after a few times of re-booting the monitor said no dvi signal. So that is how I ended up thinking it was my gfx card.