PC Tech Talk

[mag36]

So I have 2 ATI 4850 graphics cards and thinking about upgrading with about budget of $250(been considering a 7850) even though my motherboard is only PCI Express 2.0.
Anyone have some suggestions on a graphics card for 250 price point and/or less. Should i wait till the next series of Nvidia and AMD cards


I tend to buy one card then SLI or Crossfire a few months down the road.

specs of pc are i7 920 and a Msi x58 motherboard that supports SLI and crossfire

[Dead]

So I have 2 ATI 4850 graphics cards and thinking about upgrading with about budget of $250(been considering a 7850) even though my motherboard is only PCI Express 2.0.
Anyone have some suggestions on a graphics card for 250 price point and/or less. Should i wait till the next series of Nvidia and AMD cards


I tend to buy one card then SLI or Crossfire a few months down the road.

specs of pc are i7 920 and a Msi x58 motherboard that supports SLI and crossfire

At that price range you only got the 7850 and the nvidia 560ti. The 7850 is faster and sucks less power, so I would go for it. But nvidia has not come out with any budget card this generation... yet. So maybe wait for the "660" to come out and see if prices for other cards come down after that.

[ZERO]

I would wait for the low cost Nvidia cards they will have a crazy amount of power for the money

[Carmichal]

Okay so I have an unusual question. My crack head uncle is broke again so he is coming to live with my dad. He has stolen things in the past, and I would like to use an old web cam to set up a surveillance that saves things in an remote, off my computer location, and be able to access them remotely. (Just in case he steals my pc.)

I have racked my brain on this, can't find anything.

It has to be free.

[T3h tyrant]

Im getting a Geforce GTX 580 3gb video card for $220, which is regularly $630. I think that's pretty dirt cheap if you ask me lol

[ZERO]

The 600 series is so much better everything pre 600 series regardless of power is basiclaly worthless. The 600 series is more like 700 or 800 series as far as actual power is consurened vs what you normally get from going form one gen to the next.

[toma]

Okay so I have an unusual question. My crack head uncle is broke again so he is coming to live with my dad. He has stolen things in the past, and I would like to use an old web cam to set up a surveillance that saves things in an remote, off my computer location, and be able to access them remotely. (Just in case he steals my pc.)

I have racked my brain on this, can't find anything.

It has to be free.

only thing i can think of that is close to free is(if you already have some webspace), using a free video capture software to save directly to your PC, then run a script to record at 1 min intervals(or however long, most security recordings are defaulted to 1 min) then upload those videos via script to the webspace, using Task Scheduler inside control panel > Admin tools

[StarsMine]

I gave up trying to think of something free.
You need some piece of hardware. I can think of many different ways to do it, none free.

[toma]

just thought of something else you could do.

create 2 skype accounts, initiate video conference from another machine and use http://www.evaer.com/ to record video chat (or another software)

this is assuming you have 2 machines accessible, one being offsite and secure/trusted