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Fun Stuff => CLIKC => Topic started by: Alchemist on 27 Jul 2006, 19:36
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Technical question for those more computer-savvy than I.
I have an ATI graphics card. It's a Radeon 9800XT AGP with 256 megs of memory. And she's borked. At least, I'm pretty sure it's the card. I can't play any graphics-intensive game (WoW, Doom 3, UT2004, and the like) for more than about 20 minutes before I get a total system freeze and have to restart. Sometimes it just goes to a black screen, sometimes the screen freezes, sometimes I get pretty lines and dots. In any event, I have to restart the box by hitting the power switch -- and I die a little inside every time that happens.
Anyway, my question is: can anyone recommend a decent replacement card? Good name, good quality for the price, and such? I'm less than ignorant about the economic climate of computer component sales. And I really would like to avoid going to a Best Buy or somesuch and being railroaded by some salesman into buying something overpriced that I don't really need or want.
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check out: http://shsc.info/PCPartsPickingGuide#titelanker13
Has some quick info on what kinds of cards you should be looking at.
If I recall correctly, you'll probably want something like a Radeon x1600xt or a Geforce 7600 at the moment. The mid-range cards are classically the best picks price:performance wise.