Graphics Card

[george]

Want to get a new one but not to expensive. Any suggestions? Nothing above 300 dollars lol
Right now I've got a Nvidia GeForce 6150 LE 256mb Its not very good for gaming so I figured I should get a new one.

I just got my ram to 4gigs and thinking about making my own computer for gaming :) need money though. All the stuff I wanna use though, graphics card, ram cards, motherboard, hard drive, etc would come up to like 1200 dollars I think.

[0=]

What games specifically? Anyways, this (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130339) or this (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102723) would be good. The latter will run hotter and louder I'm sure, but it's 20% faster overall. They could both be extremely overkill if you don't play extremely demanding games. We're in a time of very fast, very cheap video cards.

[george]

Well right now I'm playing EVE online, which is an awesome game btw :)
http://support.eve-online.com/Pages/KB/Article.aspx?id=124
and whenever I play Age of Conan, its pretty laggy so yeah :D
http://boards.ign.com/conan/b6904/164096754/r164922253/

hhmm i like the nvidia one.

[Blahages]

Well, I can't tell you how Well this card would play Age of Conan, because I don't have the game, and there doesn't appear to be a demo of it, but I've seen a few people online that have said that it runs like 50-60fps on all or mostly all maxed out settings on the card I have, which is a eVGA GeForce 8800GS.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Description=EVGA+8800GS&x=0&y=0

It's ridiculously cheap, especially after rebates. 89$ after rebate.

But, again, I can't vouch for the performance it would give on that game.

[0=]

Since he's spending so much I think he wants to be able to play future games, too.

[Blahages]

Since he's spending so much I think he wants to be able to play future games, too.

Well, he was mentioning that he needs the money for it, so I figured he didn't have an unlimited amount to spend. And, 90$ compared to 250+$ is a bit of difference, especially if any games he's going to play anytime in the near future wouldn't require anything too high spec.

If it in year or two he finds a game that doesn't run well on it, then maybe upgrade the card. It would probably be a lot cheaper then, too.

I guess it's just how you look at it. I don't do a lot of gaming, but it seemed rated pretty good, and all the benchmarking was pretty good, even beating most of the competition on a few things.

[0=]

True. It's down to his wants. If the OP wouldn't mind giving more feedback?