Video cards

Hello id like to kno wich things should i look for when buying a new video card cause ive failed to buy a good one 2 times =(.
thanks
Answer #1
Depends on your budget?
9800GTX and 4850 are nice fairly priced cards. If you want to go all out, take a look at the GTX260/280 and 4870.
Answer #2
If you in the 180 price range get the 4850. If you want 500+ dollar cards GTX280 or the 4870X2 is the way to go.
Answer #3
If you don’t have insane money look at the quality of the manufacturer, read some review, see if they have stable drivers and good temps. Newegg.com has review for its products so check there (u don’t have 2 buy there just check the reviews). There are some things you need to know, a lot of the people that don’t know anything about graphics cards say that if your graphics card has higher memory it is better. Think about it, there are old cards that have 512MB of GDDR2 memory and there are a whole lot of cards with 256MB of GDDR3 that rape it. Higher memory is good for playing games at higher resolution, only get something with like 1GB of memory if you have a 1920×1200 res. monitor or above. 512MB should be great. The most important part is actually the core clock. If it has high core clock it is good and also look for a high memory clock. I think (correct if im wrong cuz i read about this a long time ago) the 9800GTX has a core clock of 750MHz and that is pretty damn good, so CPU clock speeds and GPU clock speeds are TOTALLY different. At the moment the best card is the 4870X2. So if ur rich get it. If ur looking for something more affordable get 4850 it is a GREAT card for budget gaming. But also look at your motherboard if it is CrossfireX compatible then get an ATI card if it is SLI compatible than get an nVidia card so in a couple years you could pop in a second card and you’ll be set. Hope this helps cuz it took a while 2 write
Answer #4
If you’re going to buy a video card, don’t buy from BestBuy or any retailer. Most of the time it’s cheaper online on sites such as newegg.com
Tell us what power supply you have. You can’t run a powerful card on weak power supply. When you looks at the specs of a video card, you want to know it’s core clock speed, number of stream processors, memory clock speed(X MHz), memory size (X Mb), memory interface(X-bit), memory type(i.e, GDDR2, GDRR3), card slot (PCie 2.0 x16, AGP), DirectX compatibility, RAMDAC speed, max resolution.
And maybe some extra stuff such as SLI capabilities, dual monitor support, cooling.
Also tell us the rest of your specs, you don’t want to bottleneck your system.
Answer #5
Between Radeon 4850 and GeForce 9600GTX, if you can but it
Answer #6
Between Radeon 4850 and GeForce 9600GTX, if you can but it
9600GTX?
Gets slaughtered by the 4850.
I think you mean the 9800GTX
Answer #7
8800 ultra