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Postby frenchbuck » Sun Oct 31, 2004 10:24 am

My PNY Nvidia TI4400 card has died after only 2 years of use. I need a new video card but I don't have lots of money to invest. I'm looking in spending about $200.00. Any advise would be appreciated.
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Re: Need Video Card Suggestions

Postby Fozzer » Sun Oct 31, 2004 10:29 am

My PNY Nvidia TI4400 card has died after only 2 years of use. I need a new video card but I don't have lots of money to invest. I'm looking in spending about $200.00. Any advise would be appreciated.


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Re: Need Video Card Suggestions

Postby Anti-Societys Snake » Sun Oct 31, 2004 10:38 am

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications ... =A271-9802

30.00 over the price you said, you can get it cheaper other places tho.

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Re: Need Video Card Suggestions

Postby Gixer » Sun Oct 31, 2004 12:37 pm

Here is a chart:

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Now go find the one furthest up the ladder for the money you have!
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Re: Need Video Card Suggestions

Postby 4_Series_Scania » Tue Nov 02, 2004 3:55 pm

Nivdia GeForce 6800LE about
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Re: Need Video Card Suggestions

Postby yf » Wed Nov 17, 2004 7:36 pm

Okay! I'm ready to invest in the best card, although I'm using now the 9800 pro 128 MB I want to get me the best!

Now I see the 6800 ultra is top of the list, but what about RAM is it a 128card or a 256card?

what exactly do I need in order  to max everything up?

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Re: Need Video Card Suggestions

Postby Delta_ » Thu Nov 18, 2004 4:04 am

Okay! I'm ready to invest in the best card, although I'm using now the 9800 pro 128 MB I want to get me the best!

Now I see the 6800 ultra is top of the list, but what about RAM is it a 128card or a 256card?

what exactly do I need in order  to max everything up?

(XP, P4, 1024 DDR RAM, 250 GIG HD)

It is 256MB, although 512MB are to be released soon.
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Re: Need Video Card Suggestions

Postby Sbd2 » Thu Nov 18, 2004 11:42 am

Careful when buying the top of the chart Video card. Most often u will need a more powerful power supply and some require you have 12 volts available from the card to the power supply!!..300-350 Watts just dont hack it anymore for the top of the line cards..Best to go for 400-500 Watt Power..Check the cards out first before ya spend all your money on the card and then need a better power supply...huh?
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Re: Need Video Card Suggestions

Postby Delta_ » Fri Nov 19, 2004 1:14 pm

Although a 350W-400W PSU from Antec or Enermax will be able to cope fine.
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Re: Need Video Card Suggestions

Postby yf » Fri Nov 26, 2004 2:04 pm

:-/       :-/       :-/       :-/       :-/       :-/       :-/       :-/       :-

Yah I got me the 6800 ultra and now I need A new power supply, the problem is witch one?!

The card wants 2 separate cables that are connected to nothing else in the the system      

So I need a power supply that will have 3 mains so 2 of them will go to the card and the third one should have enough power to handle all the others:

3 HARD DRIVES
SCSI 15k-rpm HARD DRIVE
DVD
CDRW
ZIP
FLOOPY
Number of cooling fans

Please devise me witch PSU will work the best, I will spend one's to have A GOOD SET UP
- Intel Core 2 DUO Extreme X6800 2.93GHz processor - Evga nForce 680i SLI - Corsair 2GB  TWIN2X2048-8888C4DF- 4 x Western Digital RaptorX 150GB 16MB cache SATA Hard Drives configured in RAID-0- WD 500GB secodery backup drive- Evga e GeForce 8800 GTX
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Re: Need Video Card Suggestions

Postby Gixer » Fri Nov 26, 2004 2:53 pm

Antec truepower 480w or higher. My 480w one runs my setup just fine.
AMD64 3500+ @ 2200MHz 400FSB
MSI K8N Neo 2 mobo nForce3 chipset
1gig Corsair XMS PC3200 timings @ 10.2.2.2
XFX 6800 Ultra @ 450/1200
80gig HDD
Loadsa fans!!!
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Re: Need Video Card Suggestions

Postby yf » Fri Nov 26, 2004 3:14 pm

Thanks so much...
- Intel Core 2 DUO Extreme X6800 2.93GHz processor - Evga nForce 680i SLI - Corsair 2GB  TWIN2X2048-8888C4DF- 4 x Western Digital RaptorX 150GB 16MB cache SATA Hard Drives configured in RAID-0- WD 500GB secodery backup drive- Evga e GeForce 8800 GTX
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