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Retired SCORM Guru
Need a video card
Haven't kept up on hardware.
Don't plan on doing any hardcore gaming, just C&C3, maybe some HL2 episodes when they come out, no online stuff. It's going in a small form factor case, so it needs to not run super hot and be a reasonable size. I don't want to spend a ton either.
I'm not overclocking, the system is going to be a Core2Duo 2.66 Ghz, 2GB of RAM (667Mhz).
Reccomendations?
"What really bugs me is that my mom had the audacity to call Flash Kit a bunch of 'inept jack-asses'." - sk8Krog
...and now I have tape all over my face.
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Chaos
i bought one off newegg for like $72
what kinda slots do you have?
pci, pci-x, agp?
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Senior Member
friend just bought this and loves it- can't go wrong for $65
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814102084
"Let us declare nature to be legitimate. All plants should be declared legal, and all animals for that matter. The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous."- T. McKenna
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Retired SCORM Guru
pci-e. dual dvi would be a plus in case i get a 2nd monitor
"What really bugs me is that my mom had the audacity to call Flash Kit a bunch of 'inept jack-asses'." - sk8Krog
...and now I have tape all over my face.
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Senior Member
that card I posted has the vga to dvi adapter...
"Let us declare nature to be legitimate. All plants should be declared legal, and all animals for that matter. The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous."- T. McKenna
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Retired SCORM Guru
"What really bugs me is that my mom had the audacity to call Flash Kit a bunch of 'inept jack-asses'." - sk8Krog
...and now I have tape all over my face.
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Senior Member
"Let us declare nature to be legitimate. All plants should be declared legal, and all animals for that matter. The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous."- T. McKenna
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Wait- what now?
I might get a new graphics card. I just ordered an over-priced SLI alien-ware machine. 
"I'd only told them the truth. Was that so selfish? Our integrity sells for so little, but it is all we really have. It is the very last inch of us, but within that inch, we are free."
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Why would you do that? I bet you could of built the same machine for half the price or put twice the money adding more not needed storage space and accessories.
"Let us declare nature to be legitimate. All plants should be declared legal, and all animals for that matter. The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous."- T. McKenna
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Retired SCORM Guru
Seriously, you can order all the same parts, sans case, off of NewEgg for much less. I've actually used Alienware's site as a shopping cart for NewEgg.
So, fanboyism aside, bang for the buck, should I look at ATI or NVidia. I've had both in the past, most recently a 9800Pro. ATI's drivers seemed to give more control over video and output settings (gamma, color, interlacing), but kicked my system in the nuts whenever I tried to launch the control panel, which was buggy as hell.
New system, I want clean, lean and stable.
"What really bugs me is that my mom had the audacity to call Flash Kit a bunch of 'inept jack-asses'." - sk8Krog
...and now I have tape all over my face.
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If you cant clean and stable on windows, go with nVidia.
Ati is good, but it seems to have issues running stable with windows. Dunno why, but it does.
I run a Geforce 7950 in my comp, with Core2Duo 3.2 1 gig of ram and I max out framerates in C&C 3 in max settings, so pretty much anything in the 7---series will do ya.
"For an assassin he...he is pretty nice." ~The Darkness that Comes Before
The Catalyst Corp.
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supervillain
The Catalyst drivers could sometimes be buggy as all get out. I used to go with the beta drivers from 3Dchipset.com and just deal with it.
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Senior Member
Alex, the 7600GT is good, but C&C3 is a bit more taxing than that.
This (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814122010) might be ideal for you. Dual DVI, and enough grunt to run you some good games for a while.
EDIT: Also, because of the low clock speed that the 7900GS comes with stock, overclocking that baby can take it right up to the sorta results you'd get from a 7900GTX. And that's not even half the potential the card's capable of!
Last edited by zakp0; 07-27-2007 at 05:01 PM.
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Wait- what now?
Are their any sites like newegg for the UK?
Trusted sites I mean, not the really dodgy looking ones
"I'd only told them the truth. Was that so selfish? Our integrity sells for so little, but it is all we really have. It is the very last inch of us, but within that inch, we are free."
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Retired SCORM Guru
Yeah, I'm not overclocking. Small case, and I need a stable system first and foremost. Gaming is definitely not going to be the primary use on this thing.
"What really bugs me is that my mom had the audacity to call Flash Kit a bunch of 'inept jack-asses'." - sk8Krog
...and now I have tape all over my face.
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the friendly canadian
Get a 8800GTS, they're decently awesome.. i just hope it can run Crysis.
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If that thing cant run Crysis, the game shouldn't exist...
"For an assassin he...he is pretty nice." ~The Darkness that Comes Before
The Catalyst Corp.
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the friendly canadian
I feel like it is going to be a SLI top-end game to run at max.
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It only requires a 68--, so I doubt it's gonna take too much. Also depends on your processor and ram. I'm thinking near 3 gig rams. >.> Shame I only got 1. Now, hopefully it can use duel core so I can finally put mine to work. 
Minimum System Requirements:
# Processor: 2.4 gigahertz
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# RAM: 1 gig of RAM
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# Video Card: ATI 9800 or NVIDIA 6800
"For an assassin he...he is pretty nice." ~The Darkness that Comes Before
The Catalyst Corp.
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