Time for a new Video Card

[JaD]

So I plan on buying a new video card for my computer pretty soon, and I asked my brother (who's pretty good with computers) and said a good buy was nVidia aka GeForce, he recommended this one Palit nVidia GeForce 8500GT.

I look to buy this one pretty soon, but wanted to just ask if any of you know of any other good video cards that I should look into with a nice price tag as well.t: My main goal is to be able to play HD quality video on my computer, as well as being capable of good PC gaming in case I catch on anytime soon.

Thanks.

 

[Asteroid-Man]

8600 is the best one. There's also the new Radeon GTI one. But I personally prefer nVidia GeForce

 

[JaD]

Really another one for nVidia GeForce, that's awesome, makes me feel like my brother knows what he is talking about

Thanks

 

[Apollo]

what type of computer do you have? how old is it?

 

[JaD]

I actually can't say right now, I'm on a laptop during school and my computer's back home so I'm not exactly sure. I'm pretty sure it's an IBM, and it doesn't seem too old, it's Windows XP (2003 I think). I bought a gig of RAM for it over the summer too so it's runs alot smoother now also.

 

[black_dust]

Well that card is PCI-express. are you sure pc has a slot for it?? older computers have just pci or AGP sockets

 

[JaD]

Well that card is PCI-express. are you sure pc has a slot for it?? older computers have just pci or AGP sockets

Well I could be wrong, I wish I was at my actual computer right now dammit. My brother had plugged in the RAM for me earlier so he opened it up, and he told me a new video card was possible if I wanted. I think he had a rough idea of what it looked like when I asked him if I could even get a new video card.

 

[Darkfly]

well if you can have a new Graphics card the minimum I would say is a nVidia GeForce 8600GT which will run current games and the like at pretty high settings but I'd recommend a nVidia GeForce 8800 GTX if you can afford it since its one of the most powerful cards and will play games at full settings and last you at least 3-4 years running at full to medium settings. But if you can't afford the 8800 try the nVidia GeForce 8700 GT which is the next step up from the 8600GT.

 

[JaD]

Thanks alot I'll look into that as well.

And also, these things die out too or what? You have to buy new ones after a few years then?

 

[Darkfly]

Generally you'll never see your graphics card die unless you overclock it to hell, they can die if you used them heavily for a few years but I'll doubt it will come to that personally I've never had a graphics card die on me.

 

[JaD]

Oh Ok, well that's good to know. I guess unless you do hardcore PC gaming 17 hours a day while watching BluRay movies at the same time for 2 straight years you shouldn't have much to worry about then.

 

[Darkfly]

17 hours of PC gaming if only I had the time, I'll just have to settle for 16 hours