Vaoist needs Vidcard Advice

schizferatu · 11-25-2005, 06:16 PM

Posted - 11/25/2005 : 5:10:13 PM
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I have a Sony Vaio PCV-RS 530G PC with a Radeon 9200 128MB vidcard.

I met a guy in Wal-Mart today that has:

1)Radeon 850 XT PRO 256MB

2)Nvidia 6300 128MB DDR

3)Nvidia 6600 128MB DDR

4)All at very cheap prices for sale.

He claims they will all run my Battlefield 2 way better than my 9200 (that barely did until I got medieval on it's ***).

BUT THEN I READ THIS ABOUT MY VAIO:
"The only true complaint I can think of is the power supply is below normal making it difficult to upgrade the graphics card so I didn't upgrade it but works just fine as is and if you really want to upgrade the graphics card you will have to upgrade the power supply as well."

I also read that my Vaio has:
three PCI expansion slots (one available), one 8x AGP (accelerated graphics port, occupied) slot

What to do ? Help me oh vidcard Gurus!

~~DeFcOn~~ · 11-25-2005, 10:20 PM

i would go with the nvidia 6600 and take my chances.....thats just me though....thought about upgrading laptop as in getting a better one

schizferatu · 11-26-2005, 11:27 PM

I have like 226 P/S but got the 850 anyways and 512 more MB RAM and it worked fine. Fine is an understatement - it's like gold. I got a good deal on a 400 P/S too but it was short one wire set I needed. I will have to order one from Sony I guess because there was an extra wire set with 3 prongs for sending extra juice to one of the fans.

~~DeFcOn~~ · 11-27-2005, 12:10 PM

kool......glad to see u have a mind of ur own

11-25-2005, 06:16 PM	#1 (permalink)
schizferatu Registered User Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 2 OS: XP	Vaoist needs Vidcard Advice Posted - 11/25/2005 : 5:10:13 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have a Sony Vaio PCV-RS 530G PC with a Radeon 9200 128MB vidcard. I met a guy in Wal-Mart today that has: 1)Radeon 850 XT PRO 256MB 2)Nvidia 6300 128MB DDR 3)Nvidia 6600 128MB DDR 4)All at very cheap prices for sale. He claims they will all run my Battlefield 2 way better than my 9200 (that barely did until I got medieval on it's ***). BUT THEN I READ THIS ABOUT MY VAIO: "The only true complaint I can think of is the power supply is below normal making it difficult to upgrade the graphics card so I didn't upgrade it but works just fine as is and if you really want to upgrade the graphics card you will have to upgrade the power supply as well." I also read that my Vaio has: three PCI expansion slots (one available), one 8x AGP (accelerated graphics port, occupied) slot What to do ? Help me oh vidcard Gurus!

11-25-2005, 10:20 PM	#2 (permalink)
~~DeFcOn~~ Register user Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Ewa Beach,Oahu Posts: 240 OS: gentoo linux, sunwah linux, win xp pro, and SUSE 9.3	i would go with the nvidia 6600 and take my chances.....thats just me though....thought about upgrading laptop as in getting a better one

11-26-2005, 11:27 PM	#3 (permalink)
schizferatu Registered User Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 2 OS: XP	I have like 226 P/S but got the 850 anyways and 512 more MB RAM and it worked fine. Fine is an understatement - it's like gold. I got a good deal on a 400 P/S too but it was short one wire set I needed. I will have to order one from Sony I guess because there was an extra wire set with 3 prongs for sending extra juice to one of the fans.

11-27-2005, 12:10 PM	#4 (permalink)
~~DeFcOn~~ Register user Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Ewa Beach,Oahu Posts: 240 OS: gentoo linux, sunwah linux, win xp pro, and SUSE 9.3	kool......glad to see u have a mind of ur own