I am a P.C. gamer looking to seriously upgrade my graphics.What graphics card should I go with?
467717
Hmm... well, what does your motherboard have, an agp slot, or a pci-express? That's the first thing you need to find out, unless you intend to change your motherboard too... and changing your motherboard almost always means changing your cpu, too, and changing either one of those means reinstalling windows, lol. Fun. After that... well... get the best you can afford. I have an ATI Radeon 9800 pro that I'm quite pleased with, myself.
1167819
If you have a PCI Express slot get one of those.  Regardless go with NVIDIA or an NVIDIA line, they are better than any other company out there.  All my friends who work for CAD, Architecture, programming and for Disney, Dreamworks use Nvidia.  I would go with a 256MB Nvidia line that supports directX 9.  The higher the res it can max out at the better as well becaue if you play it at a lower res than the max supported your card works faster.  Also the Nvidia drivers are much easier to work with I had a 5500OC 256 card and was able to use the 5700 drivers for it without any problems.  If you want to change and upgrade your mobo, then upgrade to one that has PCI Express slots in them as PCI is going to be completely phased out  and soon AGP will be phased out as well.  Depending on how soon you plan to upgrade your mobo I'd wait and get one with a PCI Express slot then buy a PCI E card with the specs previously mentioned.
475660
Go with ATI. its cheaper and my 512 MB card plays EVERYTHING on full graphics. Whether you have pcix, pci, or agp, there isnt much difference because the true speed is determined by your motherboard. If you have an old motherboard, dont waste your money on an expensive video card.
527533
no problem man. these are all ATI AGP video cards in the range of $200 ..$300, the best is IMO the ATI 100-435603 Radeon X850XT 256MB GDDR3 AGP 4X/8X.\nhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?N=2000380048+1069609639+4018+1305520549&Submit=ENE&Subcategory=48
769455
I honestly doubt your graphics card is anywhere near what you need.  As for the processor...maybe, but good luck.  If you post what type of motherboard you have specifically I (or many others) can help with the graphics card.
974282
PCI? Are you sure you don't have an AGP slot? If you just have PCI slots then you are pretty much screwed. PCI is two graphics interfaces old. In lieu of that you have two options. Either get the Radeon X1300 which is PCI and should run all those (not to the best that they can be run but run none the less) or buy a whole new computer that supports PCIe graphics card.\n\nYou can pick up an X1300 for about $115 here http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814129062&ATT=14-129-062&CMP=OTC-pr1c3grabb3r\n\nA new computer will run you about $1000 - 2000 depending on what parts you want. Stop by www.ibuypower.com if you are in the market for a new computer. For a good gaming computer you will want...\n\nProcessor\nAMD FX or X-2\nIntel Core 2 Duo (as much as I hate to admit it)\n\nRAM\nAt least 1024MB\n\nGraphics\nnVidia 7xxx or better (7800 is a good place to start stay away from the 7950 GX2 though)\nATI x1xxx (x1800 or better)\n\nHard Drive\n7200 RPM SATA or better\n\nBasically everything else is just what you prefer though you might want to get one of those Ageia PhysX physics processors if you have the cash.\n\nTo test your current computer to see if it can run those games of which you speak go to www.srtest.com.
32509
Ok..let's talk money..\nDecent.. nVIDIA 6600 or 6600GT..ATi x600..i would go for nVIDIA..but hey...depends on what you like.\nWhy decent? Because they got like 6-7 cards that are better than the GT...6800 6800GT 6800GS 6800 Ultra\n7800GT  7800GTX 7800GTx 512..yeah.you get me..\n\n\noh..almost forgoet...www.newegg.com...best place for computers....
473617
go to newegg.com, i myself have a evga geforce 6800gt it works well and runs almost every game out on medium or low settings
1100117
check and compare specs and prices. know what you want your card to do. i picked up a nvidia geforce 6600gt for around your price and it works fine for me. i also understand if i want to play some of the newer games coming out i might need to get a better card. but for now this one does great for me. keeps up with multiplayer games and works great when i play games offline. \n\n   look at whatever games you have or are going to get and see what they recommend, and get a card a little better then what they recommend so it isn't obsolete to soon.\n \n   P.S. check out  www.newegg.com  there prices are good and ships fairly fast. also you can compare and read others views on the items you are looking at.
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First off, all the cards you listed will be able to handle any games you want to play, so it comes down to preference (nVidia vs. ATI) and what kind of budget you're working with.\n\nMore importantly, what kind of system do you own? What kind of mobo do you have? Is it even capable of holding AGP or PCI-E cards? If you have a PCI-E compatible motherboard, it might be in your best interest to go that route, for future upgradeability. However, most AGP cards are capable of powering any of todays games, and AGP is usually less $$ taxing than PCI-E. You'll probably want to stay away from any PCI cards, as they're almost obsolete, especially if all you want to do is play games.\n\nGiven the fact that I have no idea what kind of machine you're using, I can't really give an educated suggestion (sorry). As far as the cards listed go, the 6800 is a damn fine PCI-E card, for what it's worth.
710559
If it's a PCI-E, I would reccomend the Geforce 7900GT from EVGA
812255
It depends on what your motherboard can take. I would recommend the following card:\n\nnVIDIA 7600GT\n\nYou can buy this online from £90-£120 and is a fantastic high end mid-range card. I personally have the PCI Express version which is much faster then it's AGP counterpart.\n\nDont just look at how much memory the card comes with. As some of the better cards come with less, but the memory technology is more modern and much faster - therefore the card performs better.
714480
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.
532904
For $400 I would do the following get yourself a motherboard with PCIe with a socket 939 CPU slot.  Then get yourself an Athlon 64 3000+ ($111), the motherboard will be about $70 to $100 and then get yourself a Geforce 7600GT (about $170).  You're really splitting your budget into several parts here but you NEED a new CPU, you NEED a new GPU and you NEED a new motherboard.  At least you aren't as bad as some of the people running around here with Geforce2 and Radeon 7000 graphic cards.\n\nThe reason you shouldn't upgrade the GPU is that there isn't much stuff coming out for AGP anymore all the new 7 series and X1K GPUs are coming out on PCIe only.  Then we have the problem of your CPU, EVEN if you could find a motherboard to support it, the GPU would be held back by the processor so upgrading the graphics would result in a minor increase of performance but not as much with a new processor.
1022987
Well, it all depends on how much money you are willing to spend. \n\nA good, gaming, reasonably-priced graphics card is an Nvidia GeForce 6600. =)\n\nThat will last you a decent time I think.\n\nOh, and it depends also what kind of slots you have on your computer. Be sure to buy a AGP graphics card if you have a slot in your motherboard for that, or buy a PCIe card if your computer is a bit newer and has a slot for it. =)
52720
AGP, as in a video graphics card with an AGP interface? I don't know how much you were thinking about spending, what you are upgrading from, what if any features you were looking for, so if you give any more requirements,  I can provice a better recomendation. The first link is a list of AGP graphics cards available on Newegg, and I picked one out of the $100~ range, a Geforece 6600 with 256 Ram.
10764
I've used both, and they both do the job they are suppose to do.  Nvidia can be annoying sometimes though, and ATI graphics cards are usually more solid in proformance.  So if I had to pick, I'd pick ATI.