Resolved - New Graphics Card

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So I am in the market to purchase a new graphics card cause I feel my old one is out of date. I believe my old one is a Radeon 7500 something but I know I have had it for over 3 years now. Ill let you guys know exactly what I have once I get home (bored at work searching for graphics cards). This is one that did catch my eye and was rated decently high

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814130768

Here is the rankings I found aswell: http://cdn.overclock.net/f/f8/f8b0e3a3_amd...idiachartv5.png

Let me know what you guys think

[Cutts]

Basically, that is a pretty good choice. I've not used EVGA before but I'm told they're a solid brand.

NVidias 600 series is pretty good; only slightly more performance than the equivalents in the

500 series, but operating at less than half the power usage and considerably less heat output.

The 680 GTX is also at a reasonable price:performance point... you only get a little bit more

speed with the more expensive cards or SLI, but the price becomes astronomical.

Not sure what your level of expertise is on this sort of thing, but do make sure:

1) You've got a high enough output rating on your power supply.

Apparently a 680 GTX machine can function on around 600W, but that seems ludicrously low to me.

I always make sure I have a 1kW power supply for a high end card, just so I'm always comfortably

within the limits. NVidia generally recommend 1kW.

2) Your motherboard supports PCI-Express 3.0. Cards are generally backwards compatible with

older PCI-e versions, but to get the most performance out you want the latest one!

One other thing: Your chosen card has 2GB on board, which is about average. I would usually advise

getting the 4GB version of the card if you can afford it; you probably wont find it makes much difference

with todays games, but releases in 3 years time will probably really benefit from the extra available memory.

If you do choose a 4GB card, however, make sure you have at least 8GB of system memory:

Whatever is in GFX memory is often also cached in main memory. So what that means is, with some games

your GFX memory usage can eat into main memory usage, so you need an absolute ton of main memory!