trying to pick a new graphics card to buy

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Moocher

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Its about time i upgrade my entire system (I'm still rocking that pentium 3 lol) and have assembled some part on newegg and directron:

Gigabyte Ep35 motherboard
E5200 core 2 duo
4 gigs of gskill ram
KingWin 610 watt powersupply
dvd burner
card reader
plantronics gamecom 1 headset
320 gig SATA hard drive (had prior)
SyncMaster 930b (had prior)

The only problem is that I am trying to pick a graphics card but having problems. I need a graphics card that will do amazing at 1280 x 1024 but will not bottleneck my CPU...here are my options

9800 gtx that has been refurbished on newegg, $129.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130403
8800 gts OC also refurbished on newegg, $109.99 (this one performs better than stock 8800gt, and stock 9800gtx byy 1 fps in some games)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130401
EVGA 9800 gt, $124.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130380
Also the MSI 9800 gt OC (dual slot solution), $129.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127379


I would choose the 9800 OC gts ...but I am woried about it being refurbished and it only having 90 days warranty on it... what do you guys think ?
 
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will it bottleneck my E5200? Does it matter that it is refurbished with only a 90 day warranty? and Does it matter that I'm only going to be playing at 1280 x 1024?
 
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Moocher said:
will it bottleneck my E5200? Does it matter that it is refurbished with only a 90 day warranty? and Does it matter that I'm only going to be playing at 1280 x 1024?
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No it certainly won't matter bottleneck the E5200 at all. I don't have any experience with refurbished units. But you'll be fine with that resolution.
 
Trust me dude, The e5200 won't be a bottleneck to the graphics card, as I have one myself. If I were you I'd get that 8800GTS OC Thats a pretty damn good price. (I have an e5200, and 8800gts and can play almost any game maxed, except crysis though [high settings])
 
Bottleneck means when a part of the computer does not perform well enough to keep up with the other components in the computer causing a delay. for example if you have a quad-core CPU but are using crappy graphics card, you will still have huge amounts of delay because the CPU will send info to the card and have to wait for a response because the card is not on par with it.
 
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