A question for gamer techies.

huckleberryhound

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15 Nov 09 17:43

huckleberryhound

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15 Nov 09 17:43

I plan to be building my new gamer PC soon, and saw this graphics card....

http://tinyurl.com/yhp6wo3

Would you say it's

A. Made of win

B. Made of crap

or C. mediocre at best ?

And where would you put it in a fight with

http://tinyurl.com/y9g5dez

and

http://tinyurl.com/ybejp9t

???

Thanks in advance...Huck

Sicilian Sausage

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15 Nov 09 17:46

Originally posted by huckleberryhound
I plan to be building my new gamer PC soon, and saw this graphics card....

http://tinyurl.com/yhp6wo3

Would you say it's

A. Made of win

B. Made of crap

or C. mediocre at best ?

And where would you put it in a fight with

http://tinyurl.com/y9g5dez

and

http://tinyurl.com/ybejp9t

???

Thanks in advance...Huck

Didn't you build a new gaming machine just recently?

sbacat

Eddie's Dad

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15 Nov 09 18:05

unless you're driving a monitor 27" or better either is more card than you'll need. plan on buying a power supply designed to drive these. just bought a 260 and it needed more juice than you'd imagine and what you're looking at is even hungrier. check tomshardware.com

Crowley

Not Aleister

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15 Nov 09 18:27

That card cost more than my current PC.

Jesus, I'm glad I don't do serious gaming anymore...

huckleberryhound

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15 Nov 09 20:26

Originally posted by jimslyp69
Didn't you build a new gaming machine just recently?

Built my last one beginning of last year. The motherboard fried two dimms, so i'm giving it to someone else, and building a new one.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-023-BQ&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=

I was thinking about something like this for a power supply.

sbacat

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15 Nov 09 21:06

power supply looks decent. make sure video card takes the 6pin power, some need 8pin. as far as which card. i like nvidia which all of your options are. think of the gpu as a pixel pump. max res of your monitor times refresh rate is the sizing of what card you want. my monitor is max 1680x1050 so 285 and up is overkill. if you can use higher res then bigger card is justified. if not, you can spend more money but not really enjoy any benefit...

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15 Nov 09 21:22

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huckleberryhound

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15 Nov 09 21:23

Originally posted by sbacat
power supply looks decent. make sure video card takes the 6pin power, some need 8pin. as far as which card. i like nvidia which all of your options are. think of the gpu as a pixel pump. max res of your monitor times refresh rate is the sizing of what card you want. my monitor is max 1680x1050 so 285 and up is overkill. if you can use higher res then bigger card is justified. if not, you can spend more money but not really enjoy any benefit...

I just read the article on directx 11. I'm wondering if waiting for an nvidia card that supports dx11 might be better.

huckleberryhound

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15 Nov 09 21:25

-Removed-

I'm putting €50 a week by for my new PC. I might have it by april (i have €350 so far)

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15 Nov 09 21:30

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15 Nov 09 21:34

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After reading about Dx11 and how windows 7 is dry humping it's merits, i'm worried that any card i buy now will be obsolete by spring.

sbacat

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15 Nov 09 21:41

ultimately you have to jump on the train at some point. do the games you want to play support dx11? you also need to take a look at some of the phenomenal games on consoles. big money is developing for xbox and ps3. a lot of the pc games these days are ports. 🙁

huckleberryhound

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15 Nov 09 21:51

Originally posted by sbacat
ultimately you have to jump on the train at some point. do the games you want to play support dx11? you also need to take a look at some of the phenomenal games on consoles. big money is developing for xbox and ps3. a lot of the pc games these days are ports. 🙁

Mouse control aiming will always win over joypad controls, and when the revolution comes, consoles will be seen for the bubblegum eating loose moralled younger sister of the PC gamer.

Consider the xbox to be the "Meet the Fockers" to the PC's "Zoolander".

zeeblebot

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15 Nov 09 22:05

Originally posted by huckleberryhound
I plan to be building my new gamer PC soon, and saw this graphics card....

http://tinyurl.com/yhp6wo3

Would you say it's

A. Made of win

B. Made of crap

or C. mediocre at best ?

And where would you put it in a fight with

http://tinyurl.com/y9g5dez

and

http://tinyurl.com/ybejp9t

???

Thanks in advance...Huck

aren't you buying a house?

huckleberryhound

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15 Nov 09 22:19

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Originally posted by zeeblebot
aren't you buying a house?

Yeah, and this'll probably be the last big "me" buy i get before the new house starts reaking of baby poo. . .so get off my cloud and be constructive 😛