Buying New Graphics Card

[comic_guy04]

Hey there gamer people, I bought COH/COV a while back to learn that my graphics wont support this bad ass looking game. Well it's high time I bought a new card and i'm gonna do it today so if anyone has a specific card they use that's within the $100 range please let me know.

 

[Havok83]

Id recomment the 8600GT. Its what I have and it runs great. It is direct X 10 capable and can run pretty much everything thats out right now. Id search around for prices but you should be able to get it for around $120ish with some sales

 

[comic_guy04]

Id recomment the 8600GT. Its what I have and it runs great. It is direct X 10 capable and can run pretty much everything thats out right now. Id search around for prices but you should be able to get it for around $120ish with some sales

yeah I went to my local Staples and bought an ATI Radeon stealth diamond 9250 for about $104.00 us. It isn't top of the line but it's a decent little 256mb PCI card. wish I had PCIe but I don't lol. But thanks all the same since your the only one who's replied.

 

[Apollo]

go 8800 Ultra SLI!! t: ......

 

[XtromaniaK]

go 8800 Ultra SLI!! t: ......

That would be absolutely insane.

 

[WhatsHisFace]

Anything less than 9900 is crap.

 

[XtromaniaK]

Anything less than 9900 is crap.

They.. haven't made those yet..

 

[GFreeman]

WhatsHisFace's mind was destroyed in a sky diving accident

Anyways, I got a 8600, I'm pretty happy with it. It kills anything I've tried to play.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Hmm, isn't upgrading to a decent card without a PCI-E slot tough at this point? I still have an old motherboard with an AGP graphics card.

 

[GFreeman]

Nvidia is making a dx10 card for AGP. But yeah, generally AGP cards are becoming harder to find I think.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Eh, I'm gonna upgrade to a better processor eventually anyway, which means a new MB that I will make sure has a PCI-E slot or two.

 

[GFreeman]

For the OP, make sure to buy from either newegg.com or tigerdirect.com, you can usually save quite a bit of money on those two, provided you know what to look for.

 

[WhatsHisFace]

AGP isn't allowed to go the way of PCI. Maybe they'll make an AGP Express one day, even though it sounds like Coffee.

 

[GFreeman]

AGP is already practically dead. I don't think they're making mobo's anymore that don't have at least one pci-e slot.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

They are. They're just in very short supply, or they're really cheap boards for non-gaming computers. Odds are, however, if the board does have a PCI-E slot, it probably won't have an AGP slot as well. The PCI-E has displaced the AGP almost completely on newer boards.

 

[strikezone89]

go 8800 Ultra SLI!! t: ......

my bro has one

 

[Danger Mouse]

Just bought an 8500GT and jacked up the virtual memory to 10GB/12GB. Beautiful...