Which Graphics card?

[All Seeing Eye]

Which Geforce Graphics card would you choose?

512mb 9600 GT

1024mb 9600 GT

768mb 9600 GSO

1024mb 9500 GT

 

[TEH BABA]

i have 9500 gt workiing fine.

 

[Deks]

I'd personally pick 9600 GT if I was limited to those gpu's (best performance).

If you can shell out more cash though (in the $170 range), I'd recommend you go for the ATI Radeon HD 4850.
It's the best investment as far as price/performance ratio is concerned and will smoke the 9600 GT by a high margin.

How much money do you have at your disposal exactly?

 

[Zulu Romeo]

If you're looking for the best performing and most powerful graphics card, you'd be wise to upgrade your PSU too (about 1000W should do ), to avoid hardware failures.

 

[Deks]

No ...
A PSU of about 600W or 750W is enough.

 

[CaptJimboJones]

How easy is it to upgrade a PSU (for someone who is not well-versed in monkeying around inside a PC cabinet)? My PC has a miniscule 250W PSU, which takes pretty much any graphics card improvement above the GeForce 7100 currently installed off the table. But I'm terrified of destroying the computer if I attempt to replace the PSU with something stronger.

 

[Dr. Chandra]

Which Geforce Graphics card would you choose?

512mb 9600 GT

1024mb 9600 GT

768mb 9600 GSO

1024mb 9500 GT

Mine's the 1024mb 9600 GT. It is the best vid card I've ever had, hands down.

 

[LaxScrutiny]

How easy is it to upgrade a PSU (for someone who is not well-versed in monkeying around inside a PC cabinet)? My PC has a miniscule 250W PSU, which takes pretty much any graphics card improvement above the GeForce 7100 currently installed off the table. But I'm terrified of destroying the computer if I attempt to replace the PSU with something stronger.

In some ways it's the easiest upgrade, in some ways the worst.

Everything is plugged into your psu. So you have to unplug everything, and then plug everything in again with the new one. This is worse than it sounds, because you're working in a cramped space and untangling an octopus of wires, keeping different plugs/voltages sorted, etc.

In the other sense, it's easy. A 4 pin molex only takes a 4 pin molex plug, it's pretty straightforward. Just don't forget to plug something important in.

 

[CaptJimboJones]

How easy is it to upgrade a PSU (for someone who is not well-versed in monkeying around inside a PC cabinet)? My PC has a miniscule 250W PSU, which takes pretty much any graphics card improvement above the GeForce 7100 currently installed off the table. But I'm terrified of destroying the computer if I attempt to replace the PSU with something stronger.

In some ways it's the easiest upgrade, in some ways the worst.

Everything is plugged into your psu. So you have to unplug everything, and then plug everything in again with the new one. This is worse than it sounds, because you're working in a cramped space and untangling an octopus of wires, keeping different plugs/voltages sorted, etc.

In the other sense, it's easy. A 4 pin molex only takes a 4 pin molex plug, it's pretty straightforward. Just don't forget to plug something important in.

Great, thanks. I'll be sure to get good and drunk before starting.

 

[Venardhi]

The 9800 GT is only another 20 bucks more than the 9600, and you will notice the difference in the higher-end games.

When upgrading to a new generation card, you might need to upgrade your PSU even if your current one puts out enough power just because a lot of new cards have multiple power inputs that your power supply might not be able to plug into. I had to get a new one for my GTX 260, but I had to upgrade my whole system anyways so it wasn't too much of a hassle.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

My PSU is 400w

My current Graphics card is the Geforce 7800 GTX (at the time I bought it it was the top graphics card available) but i've noticed that with the newest games I can't even get full level graphics without it making the game lag. That was before my boot problem that is.

I was told that the 768mb 9600 GSO is quite a good one. But looking at everyones suggestions that must not be the case.

 

[judge alba]

How easy is it to upgrade a PSU (for someone who is not well-versed in monkeying around inside a PC cabinet)? My PC has a miniscule 250W PSU, which takes pretty much any graphics card improvement above the GeForce 7100 currently installed off the table. But I'm terrified of destroying the computer if I attempt to replace the PSU with something stronger.

i put a 500 w psu into my pc. it originally had a 250w, best way i found to upgrade it was to take photos of where each lead goes, helped me when i got stuck. seems to run my pc fine

 

[Eeveevolve]

Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT (Prerelease - WDDM 1.1)
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200+, 2.20 GHz, 512 KB (32% Load)
(gotta love DarkEngine)

I am using a 350W PSU for them and 2 HDDs too.

Dont know if that means anything, but I just thought Iwould say..

Anyway, The 9400GT is basicaly a budget card, but plays Fallout 3 on highest graphics with no problems.

 

[SalvorHardin]

I'd personally pick 9600 GT if I was limited to those gpu's (best performance).

If you can shell out more cash though (in the $170 range), I'd recommend you go for the ATI Radeon HD 4850.
It's the best investment as far as price/performance ratio is concerned and will smoke the 9600 GT by a high margin.

How much money do you have at your disposal exactly?

I totally agree with Deks.
If you have the cash buy an HD 4850. It's an amazing card.

Otherwise go for the 9600GT

 

[FordSVT]

I got a 4850 for Christmas, great card.

Quad Core, 3GB ram and a nice card and all I do with it is play WoW.