Graphics Card Help

[Gamerguy X]

Im trying to go low budget, not planning to overclock my GPU.

Here is what I am looking at, any suggestions. Trying to keep it 256mb, and I wanna play BF2 full settings.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814102681

edit: and what exactly is a heatsink?

[knghtwhosaysni]

Re: Graphics Card Help

Im trying to go low budget, not planning to overclock my GPU.

Here is what I am looking at, any suggestions.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814102681

complete poop. You can get quite a better card for that price.

Are you willing to spend a bit more? A 7600gt would be awesome, otherwise a 7600gs would be good

[cloakster]

Re: Graphics Card Help

if ur willing to spend an extra $20 this would be really good

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130283

[knghtwhosaysni]

Re: Graphics Card Help

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heatsink

It takes heat away from the chip.

[ironmonkaa]

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a heatsink is just a cooler for your GPU, its used for better overclocking

and i would go with the ATI x1300

[cloakster]

Re: Graphics Card Help

a heatsink is just a cooler for your GPU, its used for better overclocking

and i would go with the ATI x1300

why would you go with the X1300? it hasnt proven to be worth it. it can play BF2 at medium, but for $20-$30 more he can get a 7600 GT that can play BF2 all high

[knghtwhosaysni]

Re: Graphics Card Help

and i would go with the ATI x1300

and your reason is??...

The 7600gs is on par with x1600xt

http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?id=1856&cid=3&pg=6

and the 7600gt is almost as good as a 7800gt

http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2717&p=10

[Gamerguy X]

Re: Graphics Card Help

I've updated my list to

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130283

And thanks with the heat sink explanation. I was a dope-head not to ask wiki first :-P

Question 2

Instead of making a new thread I will ask it here. Do you recomend this harddrive for these specs/price?

Western Digital Caviar SE WD1600JS 160GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM

http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16822144415

[cloakster]

Re: Graphics Card Help

just to make sure do u have a PSU that can handle it. on newegg it says a 350 Watt PSU with +12 Volt current rating of 18 amps

[Gamerguy X]

Re: Graphics Card Help

This is a good PSU, isnt it?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16817103931

Also, can someone give me advice on my hard drive question above?

[Sir. MatDef]

Re: Graphics Card Help

That drive is ok, but I reccommend spending 20 bucks more and get a drive with a 16mb cache. That psu is great for the money, I'm using one in a machie I have right now.

[KoryPyro]

Re: Graphics Card Help

If you are willing to pay an extra maybe ermm... 1000 dollars your could go with the QUAD NVIDIA® GeForce® 7900 its pretty sweet

heres the link http://www.slizone.com/object/slizone_quadsli.html
anyone see this before? recommend it?

[Gamerguy X]

Re: Graphics Card Help

how about this HD, is it worth it?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144701

[knghtwhosaysni]

Re: Graphics Card Help

how about this HD, is it worth it?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822144701

that's a very nice harddrive :)

And the PSU you posted earlier is more than enough for a 7600gt.