Video card for $140-180?

Slychilde

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I'm upgrading my whole pc, and I was wondering what the best video card would be in the price range of $140-180? It's going to go in a NF7-S with a 2600-Mobile, so I'm looking for an 8x AGP card.

Right now, I'm running an 8500LE at 275/250, stock cooling; it gets 1090 in 3dmark03.

If you could also recommend a good site to get it from, that would be great - newegg has almost 0 video cards for sale right now.

THanks!

 

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Slychilde said:

I'm upgrading my whole pc, and I was wondering what the best video card would be in the price range of $140-180? It's going to go in a NF7-S with a 2600-Mobile, so I'm looking for an 8x AGP card.

Right now, I'm running an 8500LE at 275/250, stock cooling; it gets 1090 in 3dmark03.

If you could also recommend a good site to get it from, that would be great - newegg has almost 0 video cards for sale right now.

THanks!

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9800 pro or a 6600gt agp version.

--Josh

 

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A 6600GT is $220. You coulod buy a used one if you wish, but for $200 you could get a 9800 Pro. I know both are out of your price range but I do not really reccomend anything lower then a 9800 Pro for gaming. I would get a 6600GT if you can as it performs better then the 9800 Pro.

It would help to know what kind of games you actually play and stuff though. Either way buying a 6600GT off ebay would be what I would do in your situation.

 

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When I said 6600gt agp I guess I was thinking about the pci-e price cause they are around 180.

I would buy a used 9800 pro. They go for around $160. And use the money saved and buy a artic silencer for it.

--Josh

 

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Ya the price of the AGP versions are a bit higher. I am guessing because of the higher demand because of the fact there being no PCI-E on AMD platforms as of yet.

 

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I second the 9800 decision. It is either that or a 5900xt in that price point. I bought my second 5900xt from newegg refurbed for only $135, while the lowest 9800 pro was $180.

 

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I want the video card new, i.e. not from eBay, and those are not in my price range.

5900XT looks like a good card. Is there anything wrong with it / what are its downsides?

 

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The downside is that the FX cards are horrible at DX9. The 5900 will only play HL2 in dx 8.1 mode and although it will play doom 3 ok, any use of AA or AF will kill your framerates.

 

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You can set your AF at 2x and AA at 4x and it will be fine with almost no performance hit. The difference between dx8 and dx9 is very slim.

 

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http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=348365

 

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I was checking this out for another thread: newegg have (in stock) a 256MB 9600XT around the $170 mark and a 9800 256MB card for $199.

 

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Very nice write up, but the 5900xt is now being found in the $150 range. As far as places like newegg and such the 9800pro is around $200 for the refurb 256bit and more new. If my limit was $150 I would go 5900XT.

 

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I found that thread to be worthless...the prices were innacurate or didn't line up.

Anyways, I sucked it up and got a 6600GT AGP, hopefully it will last me longer.

 

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I'm sure you will get alot of gaming goodness out of that card... enjoy!

 

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Slychilde said:

I found that thread to be worthless...the prices were innacurate or didn't line up.

Anyways, I sucked it up and got a 6600GT AGP, hopefully it will last me longer.

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Yeah, I didn't like that thread either. In all of the benchmarks I have seen the 6600gt and 6800le seem very similar performance wise. I don't know about overclocking though. You will like that card. I like my dad's 6800le.