PC Tech Talk

[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.

[Perry]

im not going to waste another 1000 bucks on a computer when mine is just fine and needs a 120 dollar card.

it says 300watt max....

[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

[Perry]

lol mine says all those numbers ahah

[StarsMine]

lol mine says all those numbers ahah

Well what are the amps next to those volts?
Anyways what would be your budget of what your willing to spend? 150? 200? 250?

Best price performence like I said is the gtx 460 but the card is 200 and a PSU would be 30-50 so I would go for a 5770 + a PSU for 180-190 anything lower would be say a a 4850 like mag

look here
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...ng,2697-3.html


Maynard stop it with the 9800 GT, at that price the 4850 is better more powerfull card and uses less power, when you upgrade you get the best you can for your budget at the current time, not what was the best for the budget 2 years ago

[Perry]

thanks.

[maynard]

Maynard stop it with the 9800 GT, at that price the 4850 is better more powerfull card and uses less power, when you upgrade you get the best you can for your budget at the current time, not what was the best for the budget 2 years ago

ill recommend whatever card I damn well feel like

as I said, perry doesn't need a top of the line card, the fact there's better then mine is completely irrelevant cause he doesn't need anything that good.

[StarsMine]

ill recommend whatever card I damn well feel like

as I said, perry doesn't need a top of the line card, the fact there's better then mine is completely irrelevant cause he doesn't need anything that good.

the 9800 GT is 90-95$, the price performance there is terrible compaired to the 240GT(75) or the 4850(100) and those 2 cards use less power, so with that in mind you could say you spend less on the 4850 then the 9800 GT and get more FPS