Simviation Forum - Need Video Card Suggestions

Oct 31^st, 2004 at 10:24am

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My PNY Nvidia TI4400 card has died after only 2 years of use. I need a new video card but I don't have lots of money to invest. I'm looking in spending about $200.00. Any advise would be appreciated.

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Reply #1 - Oct 31^st, 2004 at 10:29am

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My PNY Nvidia TI4400 card has died after only 2 years of use. I need a new video card but I don't have lots of money to invest. I'm looking in spending about $200.00. Any advise would be appreciated.

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Reply #2 - Oct 31^st, 2004 at 10:38am

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http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=18848...

30.00 over the price you said, you can get it cheaper other places tho.

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Reply #3 - Oct 31^st, 2004 at 12:37pm

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Here is a chart:

Now go find the one furthest up the ladder for the money you have!

AMD64 3500+ @ 2200MHz 400FSB&&MSI K8N Neo 2 mobo nForce3 chipset&&1gig Corsair XMS PC3200 timings @ 10.2.2.2 &&XFX 6800 Ultra @ 450/1200&&80gig HDD&&Loadsa fans!!!

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Reply #4 - Nov 2^nd, 2004 at 3:55pm

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Nivdia GeForce 6800LE about £150 in the UK, more than a match for the vast majority of the cards listed in Gixer's chart, an excellent replacement for a ti4400 - a top end card in its day!
Personally, I'd wait for the Nvidia 6600 GT, due out before Christmas, better than the 6800 (the forth card from the top of the list) for supposedly less money !

The 6800LE is , however, out now...... Wink

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Reply #5 - Nov 17^th, 2004 at 7:36pm

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Okay! I'm ready to invest in the best card, although I'm using now the 9800 pro 128 MB I want to get me the best!

Now I see the 6800 ultra is top of the list, but what about RAM is it a 128card or a 256card?

what exactly do I need in order to max everything up?

(XP, P4, 1024 DDR RAM, 250 GIG HD)

- Intel Core 2 DUO Extreme X6800 2.93GHz processor - Evga nForce 680i SLI - Corsair 2GB TWIN2X2048-8888C4DF- 4 x Western Digital RaptorX 150GB 16MB cache SATA Hard Drives configured in RAID-0- WD 500GB secodery backup drive- Evga e GeForce 8800 GTX - Enermax Galaxy 1000W Next Generation PSU- zalman's for CPU & GPU siverstones best case

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Reply #6 - Nov 18^th, 2004 at 4:04am

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Okay! I'm ready to invest in the best card, although I'm using now the 9800 pro 128 MB I want to get me the best!

Now I see the 6800 ultra is top of the list, but what about RAM is it a 128card or a 256card?

what exactly do I need in order to max everything up?

(XP, P4, 1024 DDR RAM, 250 GIG HD)

It is 256MB, although 512MB are to be released soon.

My system:Intel Q6600@3.6GHz, Corsair XMS2 4GB DDR2-6400 (4-4-4-12-1T) , Sapphire 7850 OC 2BG 920/5000, X-Fi Fatality, Corsair AX 750, 7 Pro x64

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Reply #7 - Nov 18^th, 2004 at 11:42am

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Careful when buying the top of the chart Video card. Most often u will need a more powerful power supply and some require you have 12 volts available from the card to the power supply!!..300-350 Watts just dont hack it anymore for the top of the line cards..Best to go for 400-500 Watt Power..Check the cards out first before ya spend all your money on the card and then need a better power supply...huh?

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Reply #8 - Nov 19^th, 2004 at 1:14pm

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Although a 350W-400W PSU from Antec or Enermax will be able to cope fine.

My system:Intel Q6600@3.6GHz, Corsair XMS2 4GB DDR2-6400 (4-4-4-12-1T) , Sapphire 7850 OC 2BG 920/5000, X-Fi Fatality, Corsair AX 750, 7 Pro x64

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Reply #9 - Nov 26^th, 2004 at 2:04pm

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Yah I got me the 6800 ultra and now I need A new power supply, the problem is witch one?!

The card wants 2 separate cables that are connected to nothing else in the the system

So I need a power supply that will have 3 mains so 2 of them will go to the card and the third one should have enough power to handle all the others:

3 HARD DRIVES
SCSI 15k-rpm HARD DRIVE
DVD
CDRW
ZIP
FLOOPY
Number of cooling fans

Please devise me witch PSU will work the best, I will spend one's to have A GOOD SET UP…..

P4 3Ghz 2256 DDR RAM

- Intel Core 2 DUO Extreme X6800 2.93GHz processor - Evga nForce 680i SLI - Corsair 2GB TWIN2X2048-8888C4DF- 4 x Western Digital RaptorX 150GB 16MB cache SATA Hard Drives configured in RAID-0- WD 500GB secodery backup drive- Evga e GeForce 8800 GTX - Enermax Galaxy 1000W Next Generation PSU- zalman's for CPU & GPU siverstones best case

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Reply #10 - Nov 26^th, 2004 at 2:53pm

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Antec truepower 480w or higher. My 480w one runs my setup just fine.

AMD64 3500+ @ 2200MHz 400FSB&&MSI K8N Neo 2 mobo nForce3 chipset&&1gig Corsair XMS PC3200 timings @ 10.2.2.2 &&XFX 6800 Ultra @ 450/1200&&80gig HDD&&Loadsa fans!!!

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Reply #11 - Nov 26^th, 2004 at 3:14pm

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Thanks so much...

- Intel Core 2 DUO Extreme X6800 2.93GHz processor - Evga nForce 680i SLI - Corsair 2GB TWIN2X2048-8888C4DF- 4 x Western Digital RaptorX 150GB 16MB cache SATA Hard Drives configured in RAID-0- WD 500GB secodery backup drive- Evga e GeForce 8800 GTX - Enermax Galaxy 1000W Next Generation PSU- zalman's for CPU & GPU siverstones best case

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