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Which would be better for a vid card? And whats a good card to use in the following system for under $200.

Pentium D 805 Dual Core

ECS C19-ASI Nvidia nForce 4 SLI XE  ATX ( May have to change if using ATI)

1 Gig of Corsair PC3500 DDR2 SDRAM (Board will support up to 16GB?)

Hitachi Deskstar 160GB 7200 RPM SATA HD

Thanks,
     Aaron

nVidia 6800XT would be a excellent card for that system. Will run you about $180.

Cheers
Cameron

If I were you, I would go for a 7600GT. Newegg sells them for around $170, and they outpeform the 6800XT's by a longshot.

And I do think you mean PC2-5300, not PC2-3500?;D

ATI vs. Nvidia

Thats asking for trouble

Thats asking for trouble

I was putting on the gloves when I saw that one

Cheers
Cameron

I was putting on the gloves when I saw that one

Cheers
Cameron

LMAO!  ;D

I was putting on the gloves when I saw that one

Cheers
Cameron

Gloves?
Better put on your flack jacket!

Both companys leap frog each other and have their ardent "fan boys"

I was putting on the gloves when I saw that one

Cheers
Cameron

(Nick pours a bit of super fast drying concrete mix into his gloves, then slips them on)

OK, I'm ready... lets rock  LOL

they both make very nice graphics cards with very nice drivers (which they both refuse to make open source, grrr).  ATI's cards are nice and red and nvidias a a tastefull pine green.  The performance differance between there competing product lines are usualy small. Rearly there's no reason to get all fan boyish over there graphics cards... if you do I will bust out my voodoo2 accelerator then you'll be sorry!  ::)

Shiny RED ati card:


Shiney Nvidia card


Voodoo 2 with SLI ribbon cable (before Nvidia used the phrase sli as a marketing gimick)


actualy on reflection Nvidia sucks for the one reason they replaced the once meaningfull acronim scan line interweve with scalable link interface! burn!

*before anyone asks this post was aided by a mixture of coffee and a love of crazy old hardware.