Cheese
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what about after shipping? YOU MUST ADD THAT TO THE TOTAL!
$1200 gaming rig for friend
- Thread starter diduknowthat
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what about after shipping? YOU MUST ADD THAT TO THE TOTAL!
The problem seen here when ordering the tuner card was no software for video capturing that came included with the previous card that simply quit one day. The new capture card lacked the Ultra TV software and didn't even work! But when deciding to try out the software including a newer version of PowerDVD on the tuner card those worked well. Otherwise someone would have seen a rmaed card real fast.
diduknowthat
formerly liuliuboy
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diduknowthat
formerly liuliuboy
Depends on what games you want to play. I doubt any games today will give the 8800GTS 320mb a hard time paired up with a Q6600 and 4 gigs of ram.
Mpst games will run on high settings with older cards. The actual need for a $300 card is for a more elaborate gaming build for that higher price. 4gb of memory? Will your friend be running a 64bit version of Windows like XP Pro or Vista? The 3gb barrier comes into play with the 32bit versions.
diduknowthat
formerly liuliuboy
He'll be running 64-bit vista, I was too lazy to list it.
Cheese
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not at super hi res...
hermeslyre
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The extra 320Mb of VRAM doesn't mean it's better at a higher resolution, like we all once thought.
They perform almost the same at a 1920 x 1200 rez.
diduknowthat
formerly liuliuboy
He has a 19" monitor, which isn't considered super hi res.
ive seen 19" with huge resolution
its not the size of the screen that determines the Resolution
On lcds the thing to really look at for a gaming build is the response time. The BenQ 17" still in use here due to a small space to work sees a 12ms! That's a slow boat compared to better models by the same brand seeing a low 2ms. over 1280x1024 is more for large screens over 19" there where you have to weigh that in. Under 8ms is generally good.
diduknowthat
formerly liuliuboy
Not seeing many 19" with resolutions greater than 1280 X 1024...