Which Graphic Card should I get?

[Cyanian]

I'm getting a 450GTS tomorrow. :o


i'll tell you about it.

You already bought it?


Also, get the Radeon 6850 for 175. It's the best card in the 160-190 range. There'll be a lot of Nividia cigarettes saying otherwise since it's AMD, but trust me.

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[otto-san]

Also, you can't just buy a graphics card. There's a lot more to it than that.


You have to make sure your processor and your motherboard are both compatible.

[Fredulus]

you dont have to check processor compatibility... just motherboard/PSU. your processor can bottleneck your GPU, and vice verse, but that doesn't mean they're incompatible.

[Hectic]

Also, you can't just buy a graphics card. There's a lot more to it than that.


You have to make sure your processor and your motherboard are both compatible.

So how would I ,er, know if they are compatible or not?

[steve5451]

Well I think that getting a good graphics card and a not-so-good processor for gaming isn't too good of an idea.
It's going to be bottlenecked.

[Hectic]

*cough*

Uh.. bottlenecked?

[steve5451]

*cough*

Uh.. bottlenecked?

Imagine an upside-down bottle.
It's big at the end, has a lot, but only so much can come out because of the smaller tip.
See what I'm getting at?

[Righteous One]

How is it going to be bottlenecked? You guys are handicapped. You can pick up a 460 for like $130. I would go with that or the 6850 if you are willing to spend the extra $50.

You will probably need a new power supply regardless of what card you get.

All of you bitching about motherboard compatibility are mentally handicapped. Just about every computer in the last 7 years has come with a PCI-E port. That's like asking if someone has a USB port...

[Hectic]

Imagine an upside-down bottle.
It's big at the end, has a lot, but only so much can come out because of the smaller tip.
See what I'm getting at?

so like, the rest of my computer will be holding back the potential of (my soon to be) Graphic Card?

[Bisjac]

hardware isnt designed to do that to other hardware.
but if your comp isn't processing and random access memorizing things fast enough to play at normal pace, your better video card wont make up for it. it will still be slow.

[Bisjac]

i have no idea dude, i'm a noob

how would you not know. you are either on a laptop or are not on one. you dont even need to know the models of your hardware to tell someone you are gaming on a laptop GPU

[otto-san]

How is it going to be bottlenecked? You guys are handicapped. You can pick up a 460 for like $130. I would go with that or the 6850 if you are willing to spend the extra $50.

You will probably need a new power supply regardless of what card you get.

All of you bitching about motherboard compatibility are mentally handicapped. Just about every computer in the last 7 years has come with a PCI-E port. That's like asking if someone has a USB port...

you seem to think, in the first part, that price = compatibility
a new PSU isn't always needed. i didn't need to get one. but maybe i just had a pretty good PSU to start with. :o
not all computers since 2007 have pci-e 2.0 just because that's when it came out, that isn't really very good logic. you're implying they added--

Just about every computer in the last 7 years has come with a PCI-E port.

oh ok

[Righteous One]

PCI-E 2.0 and PCI-E came out years apart. They are backwards compatible. PCI-E came out in like 2005. I usually like to assume that people aren't handicapped. If you would have time to google it (like I did) then you would'be known that the computer he has came with a 350w power supply.

The Q6600 runs on the socket 775 chipset. So I can almost guarantee that he has a PCI-E port. On that topic I noticed that your monitor resolution is only 1024x768. It might be worthwhile to get a monitor with a higher resolution down the road to take advantage of a graphics card.

[Righteous One]

so like, the rest of my computer will be holding back the potential of (my soon to be) Graphic Card?

The Q6600 is fine for gaming. I'm going to assume that Steve thought it was a dual-core or something because he usually tends to make sense.

[steve5451]

The Q6600 is fine for gaming. I'm going to assume that Steve thought it was a dual-core or something because he usually tends to make sense.

I know it's a quad core. It even says in OP.
But at that clock it isn't the most preferred CPU for high-end gaming.
But for more basic games, it should be fine.