What's the best video card for me?
What's the best video card for me?
I need some help with choosing a video card. I would like it to be PCI-Express. I won't be using it for games, but I will be watching DVDs. Thanks for any recommendations!
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If your not looking to game much at all take a look at my 6200TC review. Its very inexpencive and offers some decent features.
http://www.legitreviews.com/article.php?aid=191
http://www.legitreviews.com/article.php?aid=191
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Yeah, that or an ATI X300 or X600 would do you just fine. An X600 would even be overkill for just watching DVD'sinfinitevalence wrote:If your not looking to game much at all take a look at my 6200TC review. Its very inexpencive and offers some decent features.
http://www.legitreviews.com/article.php?aid=191
For simple DVD playback and minor gaming, seriously consider Infinite's 6200 article. I think its more than sufficient for what you want to do. If you like ATI flavored cards, go with the X300 or at the most the X600. another NVIDIA card to consider are the 6600 GT.....It makes absolutely no sense for you to spend more than $125-150 on a video card
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Absolutely. I have no idea why people are recommending the most expensve cards on the market! You can watch DVD's and play some games with only 32mb of video memory. As said many times over, Those 6200 TC's seem to come at a decent price, or you could look at the X300, you really DO NOT need anything more than that unless you want to get more serious into gaming.capper5016 wrote:For simple DVD playback and minor gaming, seriously consider Infinite's 6200 article. I think its more than sufficient for what you want to do. If you like ATI flavored cards, go with the X300 or at the most the X600. another NVIDIA card to consider are the 6600 GT.....It makes absolutely no sense for you to spend more than $125-150 on a video card
I only had 16mb of onboard video on my old PIII laptop and I played lots of games on it!
He needs PCI-Express, I believe the 9550 only comes in an AGP flavor.Bit_Cloud wrote:I got my ATI RADEON 9550 for $120 (US) off eBay brand new. I know it's not the best, but it's better than my old one.
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he allready got a 9550 so topic is over.
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