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| Author: | Apollox99 [ Sun Apr 15, 2007 2:07 am ] |
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What does video card memory have to do with it's performance? I am looking between a 256 MB card and a 512 MB, Help me decide please. |
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| Author: | purple [ Sun Apr 15, 2007 3:11 am ] |
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It's basically more RAM. It lets you pre-load more things, so when the time comes for them to pop up on screen, your computer doesn't waste time loading, and then drawing. |
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| Author: | AquaGeneral [ Sun Apr 15, 2007 3:15 am ] |
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Buy a Geforce 8800 GTS (320MB version) to play ever game that will come out from now to around 7 years because it has DX10 support and major power. Shame is the price is $300-$600. If you want something smaller priced by a mid range GF card such as a Geforce 7300 ($100 AUSD). Geforce 8800 GTS (320MB) http://au.gamespot.com/features/6165714/index.html No matter what you do avoid a ATI. They have horrible Customer Support and I never hear any devs thanking them for there support in there game. But with NVidia lots of devs talk about them, http://www.gametrailers.com/player.php? ... mv&pl=game |
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| Author: | Apollox99 [ Sun Apr 15, 2007 3:55 am ] |
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I'm not really sure that I want to to upgrade to Direct X 10. I want two cards for SLI and the GTS does not really interest me. Also the 200 USD card that I have found can run Oblivion at Maxed settings on 1280 x 1024, how much better can the GTS do that than the card that I am looking at? And the 8800 cards have been reported to have a lot of bugs. |
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| Author: | Wizard James [ Sun Apr 15, 2007 6:29 am ] |
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Wait a bit, the 8600's are coming out , extreamly cheep, it will be a Dx10 card for any upgrades later, and will be SLI cappable when you get the money. Just make sure your motherboard & Power unit can handle the card. as for the ram size, alot of people i know say , i got a 256mb videocard or a 512 mb videocard, i say what model , they go huh. You can get a low end videocard thats been hacked up with 256mb's of the slowest ram ever. and you can get a high end videocard thats got 128 mb and is 1000x faster then the low end. |
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| Author: | Apollox99 [ Sun Apr 15, 2007 7:31 am ] |
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Well then, Could you please point me to some info about these 8600's? You have intrigued me.... EDIT: I looked into them and I must say.......I don't like the looks of them. If I were to buy a graphics card right now I would either buy the 512Mb 7950 GT for $200 or the 300Mb 8800 GTS for $300. |
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