Building new rig: three questions

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shoenberg3

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Hello
For the build so far, I have: E6700 2.66, 2 gb RAM 800mhz, and ATI X300.
Quite obviously, the bottleneck is the X300. I am getting a 8800gtx for a good price in June. Meanwhile, however, I need a mid-level card that could run Oblivion on mostly max settings, considering the CPU and RAM I have now. What would that card be? I do not want to spend over 200 dollars on it.

Another question regards buying a hard drive and setting up XP. I will get a new additional HD and want to install a fresh XP on that one, but I want to keep my older HD without reformatting. How would I do that?

The last question is: would running a DX9 game with a DX10 card on Vista be better looking than running it in XP?

Thanks
 
question 2: you still want the origional info on the first hdd? if you do, do a network transfer, copy your files to cd, USB drive, or norton ghost.
 
I'd say something like a 7600 maybe, that won't be too expensive and may play Oblivion pretty well, I don't know about maxed out though.

If you get new hardware you have to do a fresh install, which you will do on your new HDD. Put the old one in as a slave drive and set it in the BIOS to boot from the 1st drive, You can then use the information you wanted off the second one. I think then you could probably delete windows off the second one, check this though, I'm not too sure.

I don't think it'd look any better in Vista, Not sure though. Obviously a DX10 card and Vista would future-proof you for gaming :)/
 
Infact, what you could do it, put only your new HDD in and put Windows on it and what not. Then once it's all done and you can get onto Windows. Turn it off, put in your old HDD as a slave drive and make sure in the BIOS it's set to boot from the newly installed XP (new HDD) and then boot up. You can then use your 2nd HDD with all the stuff you needed on it.
 
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