Video Card Upgrade?

The Highlander said:
That's mean Safecracker got work after you upgrade the video card?
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Sound like a overkill for the game spec. You just want to get it "SHUT UP AND RRRUNN!!!" :rofl2:

I would do it anyway. My Nvidia GeForce 9400GT is an overkill for my son's new Harry Potter game. It look slicky smooth and sexy on graphic. Boys are happy. That's what it counts.

Catty :giggle:
 
OK, AD'er, My birthday coming soon.... :shock: I might get a whole new computer, or other computer stuff. :dunno: I don't know what kind of pre-build gamer PC I want for $1,500 or less. :hmm: I know how to build a PC very good, but quite hard due physical disability.

Do anyone know where good gamer PC I can select what I want online?
 
JoshB4802 said:
OK, AD'er, My birthday coming soon.... :shock: I might get a whole new computer, or other computer stuff. :dunno: I don't know what kind of pre-build gamer PC I want for $1,500 or less. :hmm: I know how to build a PC very good, but quite hard due physical disability.

Do anyone know where good gamer PC I can select what I want online?
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Try Computer Renaissance store they are selling best gamer PC for less than $1,000 if you have Computer Renaissance store in your location area.
 
Christer said:
Try Computer Renaissance store they are selling best gamer PC for less than $1,000 if you have Computer Renaissance store in your location area.
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Yeah, I know where Computer Renaissance store in my area, but I prefer to buy gamer PC online.
 
Alienware!??? :giggle:

Ok You can Google search and find which is the top gaming mobo. I am certainly it's ASUS. (I hoped I'm wrong :lol: ). You can do some researches and get the mobo with most recent DDR3 RAM memory ready. Something that you can afford without going over $1,500 (that include taxes and Sh/H). There's always sales when you go browsing online. Or check out newspaper ads if anything you want on sale.

I usually check Microcenter.com if there are sales cuz they're cheaper than Best Buy and CompUSA. I don't know if your area have Microcenter.

Remember that Lightscribe DVD R/W Drive can be sold as plastic wrapped for $30 bucks. So keep your eye open for "plasticwrapped" items that sells cheap even it's a known name branded. Boxed items sometime cost more cuz of "naming rights".

My suggestion is to look for High Quality mobo. Don't go for cheap cuz of hardware issue that you might have (few low quality mobo may have issue with certain graphic card or certain memory ect, ain't worth a hassle!!). High Quality mobo tend to have best hardware compatibilty and can withstand stress well.

For example, I know a guy built the system with $25 mobo (Chaintech and other odd brands) and sold it to other friends. Two of my friends who have the cheaply built system had problem burning CD or DVD which was a really weird problem. I tested their CD/DVD burner on my system and it reads and burns CD just perfectly fine. So I thought their system's Windows XP might have been corrupted but it's been freshly reinstalled and had all its correct drivers but still can't get burner working. It can read CD/DVD just perfectly fine. I swapped out using several of my good known working CD/DVD burner and still can't get it working on their system. I checked BIOS to see if there are some kind of issue in BIOS that prevent CD/DVD burning. BIOS been resetted and cleared. I even swapped IDE cable and still have same problem.. So I pointed out that it may be blame to cheap mobo. I advise my friends not to buy from the guy. I suggest them to save a bit more money and get it through me which I favors high quality mobo.

Keep your eye WIDE open for DDR memory DENSITY!!! High density and Low density can affect mobo. It's best to get LOW Density DDR memory that works with ALL type of mobo. High Density memory tend to be cheap but it only works with AMD with certain Southbridge chipsets. I had that issue when I built a new system for my friend. She ordered High Density 1GB DDR memory stick and it only cause problem with XP installation and mobo pop error messages. I told her get the one with Low Density since that it's too late to return High Density memory stick. She let me keep the High density and I installed Low density memory stick in her system and it boots up to XP happily. I installed High density 1GB DDR to my son's AMD Althon XP system with KT333 Southbridge chipset. It works just fine. I tried it on my AMD64 with KT800 Southbridge chipset, It hungs up every now and then.

Low Density memory is faster than High Density, just FYI

Here's good details for you and others to learn

http://reviews.ebay.com/Myth-Low-Density-vs-High-Density-memory-modules_W0QQugidZ10000000001236178


That's my suggestion

Catty
 
Just to be honest that I don't satisfied with my video card GTX 260 Superclocked 216 core. I planning buy GTX 295 from Fry's or Newegg (if price drop to $200 to $300's then I can buy) but one thing I want make sure if my motherboard Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P will handle the video card GTX 295? I want powerful video card because I am a hardcore gamer.
 
Christer said:
Just to be honest that I don't satisfied with my video card GTX 260 Superclocked 216 core. I planning buy GTX 295 from Fry's or Newegg (if price drop to $200 to $300's then I can buy) but one thing I want make sure if my motherboard Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P will handle the video card GTX 295? I want powerful video card because I am a hardcore gamer.
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You want max on everything? It's impossible to max on everything on Crysis, unless if you have dual graphic card, known as SLI.

Motherboard does handle if support PCI express 2.0.
 
Foxrac said:
You want max on everything? It's impossible to max on everything on Crysis, unless if you have dual graphic card, known as SLI.

Motherboard does handle if support PCI express 2.0.
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He just want fastest and smoothiest graphic on the game. No jitter, choppy or glitchy video. So that he can get the most points playing games. Overkills on graphic and mobo would be enough for him. So he can have ego run free :giggle:

Catty
 
Christer said:
Just to be honest that I don't satisfied with my video card GTX 260 Superclocked 216 core. I planning buy GTX 295 from Fry's or Newegg (if price drop to $200 to $300's then I can buy) but one thing I want make sure if my motherboard Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P will handle the video card GTX 295? I want powerful video card because I am a hardcore gamer.
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Whatever you do, just send me your GTX260 while you buying GTX295. :wave::lol:

My 8600GT is almost died on me. My games look not good anymore, graphic look colorful and scrabbling, and nVidia driver stop working. My GPU temperature is fine(65-70° at underload), and no overclock. I running 1440X900 on most games. :|
 
Foxrac said:
You want max on everything? It's impossible to max on everything on Crysis, unless if you have dual graphic card, known as SLI.

Motherboard does handle if support PCI express 2.0.
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Yes I want max everything games 100 fps and up. In Team Fortress 2 I get about 40 to 60 fps, that's impossible cuz I review in tomshardware's benchmark GTX 260 and it get almost 150 fps in tf2. FYI my motherboard doesn't support SLI, only crossfire ATI.
 
JoshB4802 said:
Whatever you do, just send me your GTX260 while you buying GTX295. :wave::lol:

My 8600GT is almost died on me. My games look not good anymore, graphic look colorful and scrabbling, and nVidia driver stop working. My GPU temperature is fine(65-70° at underload), and no overclock. I running 1440X900 on most games. :|
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Sometime it's the OS issue that need to reinstall. Also Unplug and plug the PCI-E Graphic card to "re-seat" it. I have very old ATI Radeon 9000 Pro w/ 128mb card and I thought it died on me. I took the card out and about to throw it away. But one of the day, I decide to test it with other mobo. It works perfectly fine :confused: So I decide to use it on another system and plugged it in and it works smoothly. My kids played game and it ran as smooth as AMD64 w/ GeForce 9400GT. The ATI's GPU original fan was no good and it won't spin cuz dust collected and clogged it. I tried repair it and it did run for short time. I decided to use another small fan that came from old 450mhz CPU cooler. I took out broken fan and I screwed it in on the GPU's cooling fins with replacement fan. It works like a charm.

Sometime you might want to dust off Graphic card with duster can and old toothbrush. Do it carefully on both sides and try not to accidently break off the capacitors or some SMT (Surface Mounted Technology) components otherwise if you break it, you're out of luck.

Rarely, if Nvidia may have firmware flash update for GPU ( I don't see any) to help resolve problems.

If you have 2nd Hdd (spare one), You can test by installing OS and throw in Nvidia driver and install games to test. If it runs better and color look nice on game. Then you will know why.

Sometime you can try install and run Linux with restricted Nvidia driver just to test it.

If all else fail then it's more likely a capacitors are failing on Graphic card. (that's the common cause if system been running 24/7 for long time)

Catty
 
JoshB4802 said:
Whatever you do, just send me your GTX260 while you buying GTX295. :wave::lol:

My 8600GT is almost died on me. My games look not good anymore, graphic look colorful and scrabbling, and nVidia driver stop working. My GPU temperature is fine(65-70° at underload), and no overclock. I running 1440X900 on most games. :|
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The GTX 260 video card will be my fiancee's computer when I buy GTX 295 for my computer. ;)

I got about 35° to 45° temperatures because I got HAF 932 and it has two big fans in it. Two 120mm in side and top and 80mm in rear and front :cool2: Also I got CNPS9700 heatsink. I don't do overclock because I am not expert lol.
 
Christer said:
Yes I heard about GTX 300 come out late 2009 or early 2010.
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It will release in Jan 2010 but supposed to be release in Dec 2009 but Nvidia made delayed to Jan 2010 for unknown reason, probably it has something with hardware.
 
Christer said:
What's matter with you? it's not too late for me to purchase it. Also I am not interested in SLI.
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Smart move. I don't like SLI anymore because it waste of money and waste of watts. It's only 10-30fps more.

BTW I hope you are back then add XBGMER in your ignore list.
 
I'm not interest in SLI either due more power consumption.

I rather to get one powerful graphic card over two graphic card.

SLI require exact same video card.
 
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Per request, I'm going to re-open this thread for another chance. Please cooperate and play nice here once again.

Thank you,
~Calvin
 
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