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Old 07-11-2011, 10:39 AM
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Another "Help me pick a new graphics card" thread.

Yeah, I'm going to be a bit redundant today. Why you ask? (most don't care) My 9800GT died on me yesterday.

At first I thought I had a virus, but I don't see how that is possible since I have such a narrow selection of websites I visit (i.e. knifeedge, netflix, rcgroups). I saw initially four bands of barcode looking pattern across my screen on startup, then my resolution appeared as 160x90 and all these horrible patterns of artifacts scrolling bottom to top on my screen. Under hardware my graphics card, chipset and everything else was not recognized.

I swapped back to my old GeForce G210 and my screen was back to normal.

The RAM is too slow on that card to be usefull for my applications, so I'm going to need a new card. I'm still on a budget, so here is what I'm looking at right now.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130625
EVGA 01G-P3-1556-KR GeForce GTX 550 Ti (Fermi) FPB 1GB 192-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
$149.99

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130567
EVGA 01G-P3-1373-TR GeForce GTX 460 (Fermi) Superclocked EE 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
$164.99

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130686
EVGA 01G-P3-1468-KR GeForce GTX 560 (Fermi) FTW+ 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
$219.99

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130628
EVGA 01G-P3-1563-A1 GeForce GTX 560 Ti (Fermi) Maximum Graphics Edition Crysis 2 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
$229.99

I figure graphics requirements may be going up soon once G6 comes out, but the 9800GT was struggling with the 3D field from expansion pack 8. Let me know if you guys have any suggestions that might be better than the cards I'm looking at.
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Old 07-11-2011, 10:44 AM
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Off topic! Ban the infidel!!!!
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Off topic! Ban the infidel!!!!
That's why I included the last two sentences in my initial post for legality sakes. LOL.
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