which graphics card is better
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not exactly sure what specific cards you were looking at (there are many variations of those cards) but here is a little cheat sheet:\n\nhttp://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/compare.asp?CatId=318\n\nIF you check the boxes above the word COMPARE, you can compare (:D).  Anyways, through my research, the PNY card has better specs.
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Of those two, get the one from tigerdirect. It's factory overclocked by default. (590MHz core. The newegg one is running 560MHz core.)\n\nIt won't make a world of difference, but it's cheaper and will spit out 4-5FPS more.
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Depends on what your motherboard supports, just PCI, AGP or PCI Express. Also depends on the power supply too as higher end cards require more power.\n\nFor PCI-E you can't go wrong with a 7900GT and it is not over the top expensive\nhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814127098\n\nThe 7800GS is the fastest consumer type card by nvidia in AGP\nhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814150131\n\nIf the computer only takes PCI, forget it. It would never have a card good enough for serious gaming.\n\nYour power supply should be 350W Minimum. YOu don't need much to watch DVD movies.
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Definitely, go for the gold GeForce 7950 GX2 would work great on your pc, even some of the newer ATI cards like the X1900 Crossfire edition.  And no you don't have to upgrade your RAM, you have 2GBs already which is great, but you know if you have the money to blow, why the hell not max it out!!  Oh yeah, these components will mean more heat, so you might want to think about a few memory heatsinks and maybe upgrade your cooling components.
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The NVIDIA NFORCE 4 is close to 100 timess better.\n\nI am exagerating a little bit, but yes the Nvidia is way better.\n\nASUS is just the company who buys the chipset from NVIDIA and puts it on a motherboard they designed/tweaked. giga-byte, MSI and lots of other companies can by NFORCE 4 chipsets from NVIDIA and make their own boards, based on set standards obviously.\n\nVIA is generally the manufacturer of low-end/budget chipsets, as is SIS.\n\nI own an Motherboard with an Nforce 4 chipset and it is excellent, so excellent that words really can't express my level of satisfaction. It was pricey though,  compared to the VIA and SIS chipsets.
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Yes, get the Geforce. \n\nToo bad your motherboard does not have a AGP 8X slot.  Then you could spend $200 that would actually get you awesome performance.  \n\nIf you do not have 2GB of RAM on your computer, that is where you should spend the money.   Check www.coastmemory.com
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The eVGA...\nUnless the PNY offers more overclocking options, as an increase in memory (especially in lower end cards) doesnt make a big difference
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Whatever the latest thing is from nVidia, two of them is better.
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You can read here for a quick lesson on graphics cards.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_card\nBut in my opinion, even if you aren't a hard core gamer, you should still get the best graphics card you can reasonably afford. Eventually the newer software programs are going to be written where older graphics cards make the program average. Read the specifications on a graphics card package or game cd and you will see what the minimum requirements your computer must meet are. You want to be better than average so you aren't outdated like you say in a month and a half.
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Don't bother buying a graphics card. Honestly, your computer sucks. The "best" graphics card currently costs about 10 times what that computer is worth now. And buying a graphics card won't show you much performance if your computer can't even use it.\n\nThe best is  \nEVGA GeForce 7950 GX2 Dual GPU / 1GB GDDR3 / SLI / PCI Express for $499.99.\n\nFor that price, you can get such a good computer, you can customize it here:\nhttp://www.ibuypower.com/
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PCI Express if you have one.\nOtherwise AGP.\nPCI is like 16x slower than AGP and will give you horrible performance.\n\nKeep in mind the video card determins which slot you can put it in.  Only an AGP video card will go in an AGP slot, etc.\n\nAlso make sure the card you buy will work with your motherboard.   A motherboard will generally have PCI Express and PCI, or AGP and PCI.  I've never seen a motherboard with both AGP and PCI Express.
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I suggest 9600 PRO (Ati) if you can afford it, its a good value for money card if you want to save some money. However the next step up would be a GeForce Nvidia 6600gt.
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Your Chip set is NVidia nForce 410 and  Video Output Interface PCI Express, it depends on who much you want to spend on a Graphics Card, i would suggest GeForce 7 series
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#1 is RAM - always improves performance\n#2 Video card - check if you have pciExpress or AGP
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Lol..funny situation. See i just had a 6600gt(pci) in december up until a few days ago. Then all of a sudden it stopped working, and it had decent graphics and good framerates. So i had to buy a new one and decided to go with the 7600gs which is cheaper and recent. I must say that it plays world of warcraft excellently with graphics on full and Doom runs well.\n\nand it runs really cool. at least the PNY one does.
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Neither of those two cards will be up to the task of the games with which you're wanting to use them.  That said, the X1300 is much, much faster.  That's why it's the more expensive of the two.
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it's no more worth to buy an agp graphics card, wait with the purchase. the intel conroe cpu is coming soon (around july 06). then do a full upgrade with a new mainboard with conroe cpu and pci express graphics card.\nkeep in mind that the conroe even beats an amd 64 fx-60.