FrenchAffair
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Recently my video card died, it was a Radeon 9800pro so I am now looking around for a new video card. Unfortiantly I do not keep up to date with current cards or have the ability to look at their specs and really know the difference (besides from thinking bigger numbers makes it better). So I was hopeing some people with some good knowledge of these cards could help me out.
My max price range would be about a 300$ (Canadian) so about 270ish American, but that is just the highest posible I can go. If something in the mid range of that say 200ish or in that range will give me good results I much rather prefer that. My 9800pro did me well for all the games I play (CS:S mostly and some RTS) so I’m assumeing since that card is several years old even the mid ranged cards out today will give me not only the same preformance but significantly better preformance.
Also, in regards to the different cards. I’ve done a little reading on the new ATI’s and Nividias but in my search or dealers each card seems to have a multitude of different companys produceing the card. Is which company makes it a huge difference in card? Like is a 7600gs from company A going to be significantly different then a 7600gs from company B.
As to the rest of my computer specs, I have a ADM Athlon 64 3000+, Gigabyte k8t800 motherboard and 2gb, pc3200 of memory.
Thank you for any help on this issue, I really am like a fish out of water reading the differences in all these cards.
My max price range would be about a 300$ (Canadian) so about 270ish American, but that is just the highest posible I can go. If something in the mid range of that say 200ish or in that range will give me good results I much rather prefer that. My 9800pro did me well for all the games I play (CS:S mostly and some RTS) so I’m assumeing since that card is several years old even the mid ranged cards out today will give me not only the same preformance but significantly better preformance.
Also, in regards to the different cards. I’ve done a little reading on the new ATI’s and Nividias but in my search or dealers each card seems to have a multitude of different companys produceing the card. Is which company makes it a huge difference in card? Like is a 7600gs from company A going to be significantly different then a 7600gs from company B.
As to the rest of my computer specs, I have a ADM Athlon 64 3000+, Gigabyte k8t800 motherboard and 2gb, pc3200 of memory.
Thank you for any help on this issue, I really am like a fish out of water reading the differences in all these cards.
