Need new Graphics Card! Help!

[TehZeno]

Hullo, I need a new graphics card.

I don't know what to get

but....

I want something like this:

128 MB PCIe NVIDIA® GeForce® 6600 GT or ATI Radeon® 9800 PRO

But i want it under 50$

and it has to be Slim..

Please Help

EDIT:

Eh

My Mother has a 9400GT Slim in her computer

That's the same computer as mine.

Graphics Card: intel(R) 82915G/GV/910GL Express Chipset Family

My main goal here is to play Starcraft 2

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[TehZeno]

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[Headcrab Zombie]

What's your current video card?

[Parallel]

128MB? Well you wont be able to run many new games on a card like that. You need at least a 256mb. But if you don't game much, it really depends. I mean, what card do you have now? What is your computer, a desktop or a laptop? What are the other specs of your computer? What games do you want to run? There are a few factors to judge in order to know what video card would work.

[dkamm65]

You need at least a 512mb.

Fixed.

[Sirrus]

Fixed.

Meh, I had one with 256 and it did OK. I think the newest game it could run at minimum was Assassin's creed.

[keonesan]

Meh, I had one with 256 and it did OK. I think the newest game it could run at minimum was Assassin's creed.

With what? A framerate of 10? :/

On-Topic: I recommend just splurging your money and getting a high end Nvidia from the 400 series just so you don't have to upgrade your comp for a long time.

Or at least a 9400GT. It's only 50 bucks and I had that card for a long time. Twas good.

[devildogelite]

With what? A framerate of 10? :/

On-Topic: I recommend just splurging your money and getting a high end Nvidia from the 400 series just so you don't have to upgrade your comp for a long time.

I doubt his computer is good enough to support a high end graphics card, also I would go with the 6870 since its more bang for the buck

[Headcrab Zombie]

On-Topic: I recommend just splurging your money and getting a high end Nvidia from the 400 series just so you don't have to upgrade your comp for a long time.

If he's looking at a 6600 as an upgrade he probably doesn't have any of the other hardware to support a 400 series, let alone a PCIe slot to even use the card.
We need to find out what slot he has before we even talk about what he should get.

[Sirrus]

With what? A framerate of 10? :/

On-Topic: I recommend just splurging your money and getting a high end Nvidia from the 400 series just so you don't have to upgrade your comp for a long time.

Or at least a 9400GT. It's only 50 bucks and I had that card for a long time. Twas good.

A resolution of 800x600 and a barely payable framerate. Keep in mind that that might be a huge improvement for that guy.

[keonesan]

I doubt his computer is good enough to support a high end graphics card, also I would go with the 6870 since its more bang for the buck

True but he can always upgrade his power supply and such. PSU's don't cost that much.

[D3ATH]

My old PC from like 2003 had Radeon 9600, so if you want to play SM2 games, sure, get it, but otherwise not.

[Righteous One]

He said that it has to be slim so I'm assuming that it is some kind of stuffty mini-tower. I wouldn't expect anything more than a 300w PSU.

[Headcrab Zombie]

True but he can always upgrade his power supply and such. PSU's don't cost that much.

With the amount of information OP has given us, we have no idea whether his motherboard even has a PCIe slot. Given what he is considering an upgrade,I'm pretty sure it doesn't, meaning he'd pretty much have to buy an entire new computer to use a 400 series

[yoyo007008]

I got my nvidia 9800gt for $45(used)