Upgrade suggestion please [Archive]

gravitywell

05-13-07, 06:23 PM

I have 200-250 to spend. I need a new pci-e graphics card, possibly something that I can SLI in the future.

Nvidia or ATI is welcome, I've had awesome luck and experience with both, so brand isn't an issue.

I mostly play WoW at 1680 x 1020, but often play some FPS and Space Simulators (X2, Freelancer, etc.)

DareDevil_747

05-15-07, 12:20 PM

Well, on that budget you'll have to stick with a Direct X 9 card... which is probably just fine - sincce DX10 isn't out yet, nor are the games that run on it... heck, Vista is still so premature that in my opinion, it's going to be a year or two before DX10/Vista PC games will even be halfway "mainstream". Also, everyone is buying these ATI 2900/NV 8800 DX 10 cards right now... not even knowing how it's going to perform when DX 10 games even get here... they might be stuck upgrading AGAIN when those games DO arrive, because the current DX 10 cards out now may not have enough beans... This is just my opinion, I could be totally wrong, but my advice to you would be to get something in the Nvidia 7950GT range or ATI x1900xt range. Just make sure whatever card you get has 512MB of memory AND the memory is on a 256-bit interface. As long as you got a card with 256-bit memory (256MB or 512) it's going to EASILY handle playing all of today's top titles, and probably for a good while to come. Check out the classifieds, you can easily get something there that's going absolutely scream for $250. Hope this helps!