[blur_mrfixalot]

Hey guys,

Wuz just wanderin wat brand and what type of budget but high performance graphic card to get for my pc?
Here are some specification for my pc...

Processor : AMD Athlon64x2 5200+ 2.7ghz (AM2 socket)
Motherboard : Asus M2N68-AM
RAM : 2GB PC-6400 DDR2-800 Kingston

This pc cant even handle DEAD SPACE !!!!!! =(

 

[blur_mrfixalot]

Sorry fellow users,

my title is totally wrong please do forgive for my stupidness....
its not a solution its more of a question XD

THANKS 4 ya cooperation !!!!

 

[emosun]

Post your budget, and the make and model of your powersupply. And also post what you need the card to do.

 

[blur_mrfixalot]

I am comsidering about a good $100 to $150 price range graphic card, will B

usin it mainly

for 100% gaming .... please lend me some of your suggestions!!! By the way i

am using a 550w silverstone srider power supply.. hope that power supply is away enough for what i am powerin XD

 

[emosun]

Since it's just an athlon 64 x2 I wouldn't go too crazy on a gpu. The athlon 64 x2 Will hold back alot of higher end cards so it'll be money down the drain , but luckly your powersupply will also only permit midrage type cards so you should have to worry.

Something like a 9600 or a GT 130 would be ok on that power supply. The 9600 is cheaper and more availible.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130363

 

[blur_mrfixalot]

Hmmm.... is an Ati HD4850 as good as 1 of those 9600 gt's u were mentioning about ??? i heard Ati has a good price to performance ratio =P compare to other competitions out there

 

[emosun]

The 4850 is a good card , but not for your machine. Your machine uses an Nvidia chipset so it's best to stick with Nvidia cards to avoid the driver conflicts of mixing both ati and nvidia on the same machine. The 4850 also would need a decent 600w or higher.

 

[blur_mrfixalot]

wuz just thinking ? is 9600 gt able to support crysis? with my processor overclocked to 3.0ghz with a 2 gb of ram ??????

i have to admit i m more of an Ati fan =P

 

[emosun]

Yea a 9600 will play crysis fine. Crysis isn't as demanding as some of the more recent games that are coming out. You can probably leave the cpu at it stock speed for crysis , but for more recent games you should consider a quad.

 

[blur_mrfixalot]

I was really confuse at the part when 1 of the shop keeper said to me that there is actually more than 1 brand 9600gt... for example, Evga 9600gt, Gigabyte 9600gt, Palit 9600gt .... XD can any1 pls tell me what is goin on around here :upset: are they actually all the same ? some has an additional cooling fan .. some dont

 

[emosun]

There relatively the same. It's the same gpu made by different companies. Just like different cars with the same engine. I usually go with evga because the have a lifetime warrenty and I prefer a proper dual slot cooler.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130363

 

[blur_mrfixalot]

come to think of it.... does the card support the new window 7 BETA ????:grin:

i changed my XP home edition into windows 7:tongue:

 

[emosun]

Yes it's new enough where it should have windows 7 support.

 

[Danglegin]

You should consider the newly released Ati Radeon 4770 instead. I don't want to sound offensive, but it blows the Nvidia 9600GT out of the water, and even surpasses the Nvidia 9800GT in the majority of the tested I've found. In fact, it's very little behind the Radeon 4850. And if you take into account the price ($99-$119), it becomes the uncontested winner. It simply has no match.

Here there is a review for you to compare performances.

Salutes.

PS: I've searched the net to find out about incompatibility issues between motherboards with Nvidia chipsets and Ati graphics card and nothing showed up. Just as an example, my previous PC had an Nforce 4 Ultra chipset motherboard with an Ati Radeon X600 XT and everything was just fine.

 

[emosun]

The motherboard not only uses an nvidia chipset but a nvidia on board gpu as well , you don't mix nvidia and ati gpu's on the same machine.:4-thatsba

 

[blur_mrfixalot]

i thought the processor has something to do with the gpu stuff @#@^&*!

Ussually what type of consequences do i get for mixing the 2 things up ?

 

[Riskyone101]

Since it's just an athlon 64 x2 I wouldn't go too crazy on a gpu. The athlon 64 x2 Will hold back alot of higher end cards so it'll be money down the drain , but luckly your powersupply will also only permit midrage type cards so you should have to worry.

Something like a 9600 or a GT 130 would be ok on that power supply. The 9600 is cheaper and more availible.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130363

Just as stated here by emosun, the processor can hold back the gpu from
high performing.

While I happen to agree with emosun here about I wouldnt recommend
mixing nvidia with ATI drivers either if it can be avoided do to possible driver
conflicts.

 

[blur_mrfixalot]

But i just wana noe what is the consequences of the confict of drivers......... :upset:


haha anway if ya guys state it that way then i might as well just take nvidia =P ... screww the chipset:sigh:

 

[Riskyone101]

Conflict of drivers - can lead to corrupted files, hardware damage possibly,
shutting down of pc, overheating, incorrect voltages, BSOD messages displayed constantly, freezing of pc..........ect......need I go on?

 

[ebackhus]

I have an Athlon 62 X2 5200+ with an nForce 590 motherboard and a Diamond 3870 OC 1GB. They all work great together.