video card for gaming?

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by shanrene123, Nov 10, 2005.

  1. shanrene123

    shanrene123 Private First Class

    We have an Intel D865 GBF Motherboard, P4 3.2, WinXP Home SP2, with 1GB of RAM -- that we are going to fix up for our son for Christmas. He does online gaming (RPG's). What would be the best graphics card to buy for this setup that would allow for best gaming in the price range of up to $300? Is this an appropriate question to post on the Hardware Forum, or do I need to post in Games? Thanks :) to all in advance for any suggestions! Shannon
     
  2. Coco

    Coco Sergeant Major

    Up to 300$? You won't have too much trouble there. You could pick up something in the x800 range from ATI for that (although something like an x600 or even lower would work just fine).

    If you perfer Nvidia, 6600GT's are most likely what you want, although for 300$ you could buy fasters cards. A 6600GT would cover him though.
     
  3. MutD

    MutD Specialist

    These two cards here and here are both within budget and would provide excellent performance.
    It is worth getting the 6800gt over the 6600gt if it is within budget.
     
  4. shanrene123

    shanrene123 Private First Class

    Thanks to you both :) ! We'll start looking for those you've suggested! Shannon
     
  5. MutD

    MutD Specialist

    Make sure when you are looking you only get the AGP version of the card, your motherboard doesn't support pci-express.

    Happy shopping :D
     
  6. shanrene123

    shanrene123 Private First Class

    Here are the Specs of a video card I found for $230.00:
    GPU/VPU NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT
    Video Memory 128MB
    Memory Type GDDR3
    Memory Bandwidth 18.6GB/sec.
    Interface Type AGP
    Interface Speed 8X
    Connector(s) Dual DVI, HDTV, TV/S-Video

    Here is a list of Features:
    Superscalar GPU architecture
    NVIDIA CineFX 3.0 engine
    High Speed GDDR3 memory interface
    Microsoft DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 3.0 support
    NVIDIA Ultrashadow II technology
    64-bit floating point texture filtering and blending

    What do you all think? Will this work with our setup described earlier? Should be a good one for gaming, at least that what it claims -- "The nVIDIA® GeForce™ 6600 GPUs deliver best-in-class performance and advanced visual effects for next-generation games :cool: ."

    Any ideas, comments, suggestions?
    Thanks for your time :) !
     
  7. Coco

    Coco Sergeant Major

    It will work find for any game currently on the market or likely to be on the market for the next year or so. After that it will still work, just don't expect to be able to have all the settings at max.
     
  8. Insomniac

    Insomniac Billy Ray Cyrus #1 Fan

    Don't go for a 6800 GT as earlier advised as they aren't the best value.

    nVidia really need to drop the price of this chip before it becomes a decent option.

    A 6600 GT, or a 6800 are very good value, able to play any current game and would compliment your system.


    There isn't a great deal of difference in performance between different brands of 6600 GT or 6800, so look for whichever ones give you the best price, software bundles, connection options and cables.
     

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