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Hey all,

I'm trying to build a new computer for gaming. I read that this - - Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 Yorkfield 2.66GHz 12MB L2 Cache LGA 775 95W Quad-Core Processor - - is a good processor. Just talk to bro and he suggested dual core. Anyway, now I'm trying to find a vid. card around the $200 range. Two vid cards I found are listed below.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814261013

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814143136

Basically I'm not sure about the difference in the geforce 8 and 9 series. Also I noticed open gl 2.1. Is that necessary? What about the diffence in 512mb card and 1 gb card.

I want my comp to kick some A in the coming years. Thanks for any help. I'm a little bit of newb when it comes to this.
 
Ok well, The 8 series has been out for some time and has some great cards, but is more or less being replaced by the 9 series. The 512MB, and the 1GB is the dedicated memory of each card, however a mistake I see a lot is somebody buying a card based on the dedicated memory, 512MB is plenty, don't go spending all kinds of money on a card with 1GB of memory. At this point with a budget of $200.00 I would recommend the Zotac 9800 GTX, it has some great stats for the price. It's about $214 after shipping, funny I just bought one a few days ago and it was $199

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500039
 
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tknick90 said:
Ok well, The 8 series has been out for some time and has some great cards, but is more or less being replaced by the 9 series.
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I'm sure Nvidia wants the 9 series to replace the 8, but in truth most the 9 series are the same GPUs as the 8 series. The 9800gtx is an overclocked 8800gts.

The new ATI 4850 is just under $200 and there isn't another sub $200 card that can match it.
 
which is why I said more or less, lol. The 9 series is really kind of disappointing but the price gap between that and the GTX 200 series or even the GX2 is not worth it. I've had some bad experiences with ATI cards, which is why I would go with Nvidia.
 
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I've had some bad experiences with ATI cards, which is why I would go with Nvidia.
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Hell, the performance of the new ATI ards is well worth risking it :P:P:P GO ATI! GO ATI! NUKES w000000t!!!!!!

*clears throat*

Nick's had bad luck with ATI cards, so have some people with NVIDIA cards. The 8-series cards are great performers and I've seen 8800GTs going for under $100, so you may want to look into those if it must be NVIDIA but I would recommend the new ATI cards. They own.
 
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teh Q9450 is a great processor, and it is future proof, well for the next 2 years it will be ok (hell my processor has been ok for 2 years)

For the GFX, got for the BFG out of those two, but as someone said you dont need the 1GB.

But for that same price I would rather go for the ATI 4850

I mean the ATI Beats the GTX in EVERY benchmark and is neck in neck with the GT-260
 
I prefer the quad but we won't see an improvement with those for who knows how long, so a dualy is fine. Your plan is fine as well, games are verily heading away from CPU time and towards GPU shader muscle. A strong GPU presence is definitely more important than the former.
 
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