cuemasterfl
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I bought a new PC but it's PCI-Express so I can't use my old AGP card. What do you suggest in this price range?
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IMHO, the EVGA 7600GT would be a good choice. It would cost you about $116 shipped. I bought this card for a buddy for his birthday. With this exact card, he benchmarked 5,800 on 3dmark 05 ( with a socket 939 3800 X2 cpu). I was really surprized by this card and my friend is really happy with it.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130062
If you're and ATI fan, the Saphire X1950GT at $134.99 ( $104.99 AR ) would also be good choice. ( I'm not a big fan of rebates. )
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102034
I'm just curious, where can you buy an X1900GT for $100, or a 7900GS for $110 ???
If you are overclocker and want DX10 then definately 8600GT from circuit city. If you are crazy overclocker like me, then buy 8600GT and VOLT MOD it to 1GHZ Core and beat the hell out of any card out there under $200.
You got my point!
Did you get one and get a 1GHz OC?
I'm at 681/719, now the core clock goes higher and memory hardly goes anywhere (I had a "driver crash" that killed the display and required manual restart). Before the crash, I was at 675 core 775 memory, doesn't make a whole lot of sense. This is using the latest version of ntune, the 4/26 release.
Still, 681 MHz core is a lot better than the stock 540 MHz core and still runs around 52C indicated under load.
7600gt? wow horrible choice.. i bought a few for 70$ each and was highly disappointed.. get the 8600gt if you want to waste funds i see them go for 130$
also upgrading the secondary gfx to a pci card would let you use your memory