The Best Graphics/Video Card

[TheSamurai Hobo]

8500 GT sucks, you'd want to upgrade. You have plenty of time to grab an 8800GT by Sims 3's release though. As long as it doesn't come DOA or broken(aka you get scammed), it looks fine

 

I also see that it's refurbished.. hm

Edited October 5, 2008 by TheSamurai Hobo

[Emotion98.3]

8500 GT sucks, you'd want to upgrade. You have plenty of time to grab an 8800GT by Sims 3's release though. As long as it doesn't come DOA or broken(aka you get scammed), it looks fine

 

I also see that it's refurbished.. hm

The 8500 is alot better than the 5200 FX that i have now.

[*gta star*]

Yes, but its not a good series 8, its one of the worst (8400 is the worst).

[GTA3Freak-2001]

At least you'd have better upgrade options, although you'd still need to check the Power Supply if you intend to get rid of that 8500GT and replace it with something beefier.

[Star-Lord]

 

Actually the plan has gone bottom up. But there thinking about getting me this

 

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I was  , thats a freaking sweet computer

You made laugh hard when you said the above

 

Anyways, Man! this system is sweeter than your dad's, first things first get a hold of the seller before buying it and ask him/her how much more would it be if he upgraded your system to a 8800GT w/ a compatible power supply and would he deduct it off the 8500Gt + Stock Power Supply. You would pay a little more but you would get it out of way and at the same time save some money.

[Slamman]

I have the Radeon 9200 (SE version me thinks), at 128MB video RAM)

You cannot support Shader 3.0 with them, but it should run San Andreas, however, setting ALL the levels to low, still I find it slow.

The 6000 series up to 8000 support Shader model 3.0 and now the highest will be Shader 4.0 and any advances. Direct X10 and higher

revisions will need PCI Express for sure. I don't feel AGP 8x is dead, certainly... about 2x the speed of your PCI. My thinking is even a X300 Radeon like I have

will run faster then a comparable 128MB vid card in a PCI slot. The main problem is the RAM in the system itself, two conflicting speeds, for one...the other?

Each is only 256MB, for a total of 512 in my latest mobo. Upgrades that forsake a revision, even, on the same board will cause the old board to be stuck

in obsolescence.

[leik oh em jeez!]

I have the Radeon 9200 (SE version me thinks), at 128MB video RAM)

You cannot support Shader 3.0 with them, but it should run San Andreas, however, setting ALL the levels to low, still I find it slow.

The 6000 series up to 8000 support Shader model 3.0 and now the highest will be Shader 4.0 and any advances. Direct X10 and higher

revisions will need PCI Express for sure. I don't feel AGP 8x is dead, certainly... about 2x the speed of your PCI. My thinking is even a X300 Radeon like I have

will run faster then a comparable 128MB vid card in a PCI slot. The main problem is the RAM in the system itself, two conflicting speeds, for one...the other?

Each is only 256MB, for a total of 512 in my latest mobo. Upgrades that forsake a revision, even, on the same board will cause the old board to be stuck

in obsolescence.

AGP is like 32 times faster than PCI, it was designed as an "accelerated graphics port" to carry more data than PCI for the growing needs of graphics cards...

[Slamman]

Any veteran knows AGP dates back to pre-Windows ME, in fact, Windows 98 SE era. AGP at 1x, 2x, 4x, then 8x. I still think AGP 8x will be around for awhile, but try and get yourself one PCI-Express...for sure. It's bandwidth varies too, based on the spec the board has, so make sure it's fully open to the full bandwidth for graphics use to get the best performance.

Edited October 7, 2008 by Slamman