Solve : strictly budget gaming card?

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Answer» Quote from: alexfue12 on June 22, 2007, 10:08:32 AM sorry, bud, but i don't do newegg rebates. i've read many reviews saying how the rebate process has been headaches to all (unless of course you've tried it yourself.) but that x1950GT is looking pretty gangster. Just a question, tho. I have a gig of memory. How much would I benefit from another 512MB, maybe another gigabyte? You should trust the rebate service. "I've read" isnt exactly an argument. Your graphics card matters a lot more than RAM. But consider upping the budget. You wont find a good AGP card for 70$. What Calum has suggested has my reccomendation.Quote from: Jess607 on June 22, 2007, 10:21:56 AM Quote from: alexfue12 on June 22, 2007, 10:08:32 AM sorry, bud, but i don't do newegg rebates. i've read many reviews saying how the rebate process has been headaches to all (unless of course you've tried it yourself.) but that x1950GT is looking pretty gangster. Just a question, tho. I have a gig of memory. How much would I benefit from another 512MB, maybe another gigabyte? You should trust the rebate service. "I've read" isnt exactly an argument. Your graphics card matters a lot more than RAM. But consider upping the budget. You wont find a good AGP card for 70$. What Calum has suggested has my reccomendation. Quote What would anybody recommend in the $100 to $140 range? alexfue12 - you may benefit from another 1Gb of RAM in some games, but your graphics card is more important.alright, then. that means i have more room SINCE i don't have to worry about RAM. How bout this bad boy? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102071More expensive than the X1950GT I linked to, but also more powerful. If you give me a definite budget I'll look around some more for you.Alright right now I have about $220 saved up, but I also gotta get a PSU as well, so if it's a quality brand i'll have to wait just a little longer. i'd say the maximum would be $250 incl. PSUOK, let me look tomorrow for you. I'm shattered now, need some sleep.Quote from: Jess607 on June 22, 2007, 10:21:56 AM Quote from: alexfue12 on June 22, 2007, 10:08:32 AM sorry, bud, but i don't do newegg rebates. i've read many reviews saying how the rebate process has been headaches to all (unless of course you've tried it yourself.) but that x1950GT is looking pretty gangster. Just a question, tho. I have a gig of memory. How much would I benefit from another 512MB, maybe another gigabyte? You should trust the rebate service. "I've read" isnt exactly an argument. Your graphics card matters a lot more than RAM. But consider upping the budget. You wont find a good AGP card for 70$. What Calum has suggested has my reccomendation. Are you sure that RAM won't matter, even with 1GB ddr400? I sure hope not. I don't wanna bottleneck the card too bad or else that extra horsepower would be worthless unless i do a bit of upgrading.From my experience, 2Gb of RAM will help if you heavily multitask, and it will help games load faster. The difference will only be a few fps on most games, if indeed there is a difference in performance. If you UPGRADE the video card now, you can get more RAM LATER if you want - the video card will make a massive difference. Give me a few minutes, I'm going to look for a card and power supply now.For a power supply, this looks good to me. Good brand, decent amount of power. Taking $220 as your max budget and bearing in mind that power supply is $60 or so, the X1950GT I linked to above is still your best bet as far as I can see. There are few more powerful cards available for AGP right now, and the price is good too. If anyone else has any opinions on this choice, please fel free to add your comments.That psu looks nice and all, but would you happen to know how many combined amps there are on the +12V?It doesn't say on Newegg, but looking on some other sites I see peak output 18A, continuous 12A. Any reason why?well other places i've read 34 peak, 22 continuous. So I'm guessing it's not really what i'm looking for, huh?Quote from: alexfue12 on June 23, 2007, 01:11:38 PM well other places i've read 34 peak, 22 continuous. So I'm guessing it's not really what i'm looking for, huh? On a 12V rail ? ? ? This doesn't sound correct.meh, forget that. i thought he meant 18A altogether. then i remembered that it had dual +12v rails. Thanks for the suggestions. I'll be able to order this real soon (have to wait until Monday) man, these upgrades couldn't come at a better time. I am now stuck with a hard-drive, cpu, cooler, sound card, and wireless card and even then the computer locks up on counter-strike 1.6. COUNTERSTRIKE 1-POINT--6! And i can almost smell something burning. d*N, better turn off this computer. Post Edited for content* patio. EDIT: Sorry :\

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Quote from: alexfue12 on June 22, 2007, 10:08:32 AM

sorry, bud, but i don't do newegg rebates. i've read many reviews saying how the rebate process has been headaches to all (unless of course you've tried it yourself.)

but that x1950GT is looking pretty gangster. Just a question, tho. I have a gig of memory. How much would I benefit from another 512MB, maybe another gigabyte?

You should trust the rebate service. "I've read" isnt exactly an argument.

Your graphics card matters a lot more than RAM. But consider upping the budget. You wont find a good AGP card for 70$.
What Calum has suggested has my reccomendation.Quote from: Jess607 on June 22, 2007, 10:21:56 AM

Quote from: alexfue12 on June 22, 2007, 10:08:32 AM
sorry, bud, but i don't do newegg rebates. i've read many reviews saying how the rebate process has been headaches to all (unless of course you've tried it yourself.)

but that x1950GT is looking pretty gangster. Just a question, tho. I have a gig of memory. How much would I benefit from another 512MB, maybe another gigabyte?

You should trust the rebate service. "I've read" isnt exactly an argument.

Your graphics card matters a lot more than RAM. But consider upping the budget. You wont find a good AGP card for 70$.
What Calum has suggested has my reccomendation.

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What would anybody recommend in the $100 to $140 range?

alexfue12 - you may benefit from another 1Gb of RAM in some games, but your graphics card is more important.alright, then. that means i have more room SINCE i don't have to worry about RAM. How bout this bad boy?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102071More expensive than the X1950GT I linked to, but also more powerful.
If you give me a definite budget I'll look around some more for you.Alright right now I have about $220 saved up, but I also gotta get a PSU as well, so if it's a quality brand i'll have to wait just a little longer. i'd say the maximum would be $250 incl. PSUOK, let me look tomorrow for you.
I'm shattered now, need some sleep.Quote from: Jess607 on June 22, 2007, 10:21:56 AM

Quote from: alexfue12 on June 22, 2007, 10:08:32 AM
sorry, bud, but i don't do newegg rebates. i've read many reviews saying how the rebate process has been headaches to all (unless of course you've tried it yourself.)

but that x1950GT is looking pretty gangster. Just a question, tho. I have a gig of memory. How much would I benefit from another 512MB, maybe another gigabyte?

You should trust the rebate service. "I've read" isnt exactly an argument.

Your graphics card matters a lot more than RAM. But consider upping the budget. You wont find a good AGP card for 70$.
What Calum has suggested has my reccomendation.

Are you sure that RAM won't matter, even with 1GB ddr400? I sure hope not. I don't wanna bottleneck the card too bad or else that extra horsepower would be worthless unless i do a bit of upgrading.From my experience, 2Gb of RAM will help if you heavily multitask, and it will help games load faster.
The difference will only be a few fps on most games, if indeed there is a difference in performance.
If you UPGRADE the video card now, you can get more RAM LATER if you want - the video card will make a massive difference.
Give me a few minutes, I'm going to look for a card and power supply now.For a power supply, this looks good to me.
Good brand, decent amount of power.
Taking $220 as your max budget and bearing in mind that power supply is $60 or so, the X1950GT I linked to above is still your best bet as far as I can see.
There are few more powerful cards available for AGP right now, and the price is good too.
If anyone else has any opinions on this choice, please fel free to add your comments.That psu looks nice and all, but would you happen to know how many combined amps there are on the +12V?It doesn't say on Newegg, but looking on some other sites I see peak output 18A, continuous 12A.
Any reason why?well other places i've read 34 peak, 22 continuous. So I'm guessing it's not really what i'm looking for, huh?Quote from: alexfue12 on June 23, 2007, 01:11:38 PM

well other places i've read 34 peak, 22 continuous. So I'm guessing it's not really what i'm looking for, huh?

On a 12V rail ? ? ?

This doesn't sound correct.meh, forget that. i thought he meant 18A altogether. then i remembered that it had dual +12v rails.

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll be able to order this real soon (have to wait until Monday) man, these upgrades couldn't come at a better time. I am now stuck with a hard-drive, cpu, cooler, sound card, and wireless card and even then the computer locks up on counter-strike 1.6. COUNTERSTRIKE 1-POINT--6! And i can almost smell something burning. d**N, better turn off this computer.

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