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Help choosing video upgrade.
Name: KaReed44 Date: January 5, 2005 at 17:25:30 Pacific OS: Windows XP Home CPU/Ram: Athlon XP 3000+/512 mb dd
Comment:
I currently have a stock video card. I am looking to upgrade with a buget of about 100-130$. I do not need top of the line graphics I just want a decent performance upgrade from what i have now which is quite bad.My processor and ram arent very bad so I think that a better video card would make a great difference. Any help choosing a card would be greatly appreciated. I dont have a preference between Nvidia and ATI. Thanks
Name: furball6390 Date: January 5, 2005 at 18:10:29 Pacific
Reply:
Nvidia:
FX 5700 Geforce 6200
ATi:
9600 pro x300 x600
umm there is a lot more but those are pretty nice cards...i like the ATi ones IMO
Asus A7N8X Deluxe 2.0 ATI 9800 Pro AMD Barton 2500+ 1024 PC3200 Ram 120gig Maxtor HD Audigy 2 420 watt psu
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Response Number 2
Name: KaReed44 Date: January 6, 2005 at 07:56:12 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks for your help. I think im goin to buy the FX 5700
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Response Number 3
Name: rick152 Date: January 6, 2005 at 08:31:09 Pacific
Reply:
Choose wisely..don't know how much FX 5700 is now but for $199 you can get a X700 Pro..not as fast as 6600 GT but it probably has similar performance to 9800 XT.
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