PC Tech Talk

[mag36]

Ok so for some fucking reason my graphics/video card sucks ass.

ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics card is what I have.

any recommendations that is cheap but better?

how cheap?

This site is pretty good at telling you best bang for your buck......every month they do best graphics car for the money article
Best Graphics Cards For The Money: August 2010 -TomsHardware.com

I bought 2 4850 a while back ago both were right at 100 bucks and they been able to throw out pretty much anything i toss at them

[maynard]

weak... so last night I was fucking around on my comp... and I accidently hit the sleep button on my keyboard so the Pc started shutting down and I had a bunch of programs running... so after saying some choice words I took it out of sleep mode and typed in my password, hit enter and BOOM... PC's F-U-C-K-E-D

Stop: 0xc0000218 {Registry File Failure}
The registry cannot load the hive (file):
\SystemRoot\System32\Config\SYSTEM or its log or alternate.
It is corrupt, absent, or not writable.

so long story short 1 of my hard drives shorted the fuck out... the part was under warranty but still had 2 pay labour and shop time... was weak

[Perry]

how cheap?

This site is pretty good at telling you best bang for your buck......every month they do best graphics car for the money article
Best Graphics Cards For The Money: August 2010 -TomsHardware.com

I bought 2 4850 a while back ago both were right at 100 bucks and they been able to throw out pretty much anything i toss at them

I was talking to HMDBrian today in game and he told me to pick up Nividia. But he said something about finding out what kind of power supply and that I need. HAlp?

EDIT
Also i opened the side of the computer case to check it out and I cant find the card anywhere!!!!! this is what I found:

[maynard]

I was talking to HMDBrian today in game and he told me to pick up Nividia. But he said something about finding out what kind of power supply and that I need. HAlp?

open your case, it will say on the power supply what wattage it is. and for the card I recommend the gforce 9800 GT... it's a sweet card and not expensive

[StarsMine]

open your case, it will say on the power supply what wattage it is. and for the card I recommend the gforce 9800 GT... it's a sweet card and not expensive

9800 is 2 generations old, its a nice card but its showing its grays. Like mag said how cheap is your cheap, my recomendations would be 160$ for a 5770 or 200 for the 460(best price/performance is here ) Both are dx11 so should last you a good 3/4 years before it stops maxing out everything on the market

and perry unless you have ever changed the PSU you will need a new one, prefabs always come with the cheapest parts possible and sell them for a premium (making your own gets you much much better parts and is much cheaper)

[mag36]

I was talking to HMDBrian today in game and he told me to pick up Nividia. But he said something about finding out what kind of power supply and that I need. HAlp?

EDIT
Also i opened the side of the computer case to check it out and I cant find the card anywhere!!!!! this is what I found:

OK well it looks like you have Onboard graphics. Best i would recommend without an extra power source is the 4650 or 4670
They about the most graphical power you can get without an extra 12volt power source. But still it be nice to know how many watts you power supply puts out.
Nvidia 240 or ATI 5570 might be another option if your looking cheap but want the newer gen tech.
Granted these wont play nothing like crysis but if you got by with onboard graphics this long, Im pretty sure this will get you going till you need another PC

Since you look like your running a stock machine i would recommend a new power supply if you want a graphics card with some real power behind it.
What are you PC specs anyways?

Far as brand name? doesnt matter to me ATI has been known to have more drivers issues with Crossfire configurations but i never had a problem.

[maynard]

9800 is 2 generations old, its a nice card but its showing its grays.

lol, what grays? I play GTA, bad company 2, starcraft 2 and every other game on ultra graphics, and it handles it 100% fine. what grays do you speak of. I'm aware it's not the newest card, but odds are he doesn't need the newest card lol... also, if I can play all the latest games on ultra settings 100% fine, then clearly it's an awesome card, even more so cause the price is right.

[Perry]

My computer is a Dell Insprion
AMD Athlon II X@ 240 Processor @ 2.8GHZ per core.
3 gigs of ram (12 to max out)
Windows 7 ultimate 64bit

I personally love this computer. this is the first problem I have had, well besides my mic crackling lol.

[loka]

Dude... I would just buy a new custom built computer if you can wait not to be wowed in the graphics section. On board anything is asking for issues down the road. Been there, done that. I hate desktops now because of it.

[StarsMine]

lol, what grays? I play GTA, bad company 2, starcraft 2 and every other game on ultra graphics, and it handles it 100% fine. what grays do you speak of. I'm aware it's not the newest card, but odds are he doesn't need the newest card lol... also, if I can play all the latest games on ultra settings 100% fine, then clearly it's an awesome card, even more so cause the price is right.

I like how the games you mentioned are very very CPU heavy, not GPU. GTA is a terrible terrible port :/ only 1% of the computers w/ steam have 3 cores dumb ass coders.

Anyways are you talking about the 9800GTX? you just said GT the GTX takes massive power to run and it does match the power of say the 260GTX but there are better cards for the money and power usage.

Perry it may say max 300Watts but that means nothing about the quality of the PSU, I would never try to got to the "max" of a prefab PSU most of that wattage are on the 3.3v and 5v not the 12v where it is needed