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Geek Culture / birthday this week, what GPU should I ask for?

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Posted: 17th Jun 2011 02:51 Edited at: 17th Jun 2011 04:15
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hihi it are my emergence-day this weekend and i was thinking i might need a new GPU.

mainly because this link says my current GPU (GeForce 9800GT) doesn't support windows 7, which is what i'm upgrading to after just installing a new mobo/cpu/ram. the win7 disc hasn't arrived yet, MS is taking their sweet bloody time with that.

i was wondering, what's a good value-for-money card anywhere under $200? i've been out of the loop on GPUs for so long.

thanky



oh also, hardware:
mobo: GIGABYTE MA78LMT-S2 mATX AM3
cpu: AMD Phenom II X4 840 3.2GHz
ram: G.Skill Ripjaw 1x4GB DDR3 1333
gpu: EVGA GeForce 9800GT 512MB 256-bit
sound: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio 7.1 PCI
os: none! future Windows 7 x64


update ok i'm looking at the Radeon 6850. it's PCIe 2.1 x16. my mobo only has PCIe 2.0 x16. is this Radeon incompatible with my build?

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Uncle Sam
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Posted: 17th Jun 2011 05:43
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If I remember correctly (though I'm not certain), a PCIe 2.1 card will work on a PCIe 2.0 mobo.

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Posted: 17th Jun 2011 13:18 Edited at: 17th Jun 2011 13:19
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Personaly i prefer nVidia i have a 240 at present and it performs really well and they are now very cheap, you could get a 440GT or 450GTS for a good price, this is just personal preference as i'm not keen on ATI since the early Radeon days...

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Posted: 17th Jun 2011 13:23
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Posted: 17th Jun 2011 16:51
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The 9800gt will run perfectly good with Windows 7,there is no problems with it. I wouldn't change it,it can still run any nowadays game. IF you really must change your GPU,the GTX560 is your best option.


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Posted: 17th Jun 2011 18:55 Edited at: 17th Jun 2011 18:56
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Quote: "nVidia 240 1Gig, 8 Gig DDR3 Ram, Intel i5 CPU"

your GPU is a massive bottleneck on your system, its the part after the 200 that matters, and since a 480 is about the same performance as a 570, that would make yours equivilent to a 510

as for your card, at $200 (based on conversion to GBP) a GTX 550 would be an awesome card to own

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Posted: 17th Jun 2011 19:05 Edited at: 17th Jun 2011 19:05
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There's a driver for it, so it would work with win7. And the 9800 is really good anyway so I wouldn't change it.

Seriously, some people that write these 'reviews' know jack all and do no research.


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Posted: 17th Jun 2011 20:06
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the 9800GT is excellent, I had the 8800GT and that was essentially the 8800GT with a faulty core, and loved it

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Posted: 17th Jun 2011 20:36
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I've been running a couple of 8800 Ultras is SLI - still haven't found anything it can't handle (pushing a 1920x1080 resolution too). I love those things xD


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Posted: 18th Jun 2011 11:01
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Quote: "mainly because this link says my current GPU (GeForce 9800GT) doesn't support windows 7"


Not sure why it wouldn't work under Win7, my 8600GTS works just fine and the 9800 is newer isn't it?

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