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New video card advice
Danny boy
Hi everybody, I have been reading threads on this forum for a few weeks now and it has been very informative!
After a long period of not playing PC games I have a itch to play games like Fallout New Vegas and Black Ops, but its been a while since I have bought a graphics card and wonder if anybody could give me some suggestions? I currently have a Acer M3802, Quadcore 2.5GHz, with 6 GBs of RAM running Windows 7 with a ATX form factor.
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badboyeee
budget??
Danny boy
Ah yes I knew I forgot something... I was thinking around about £50-£120 something like that.
badboyeee
A few months ago when I was shopping for a new video card, the GTX 460 1gb was the card to get. The Radeon HD 6850 1gb looks pretty promising as well, maybe a better buy than the GTX 460 1gb.
joshmadakor
I recently bought the GTX 465. It's great! I would recommend buying the EVGA flavor of whatever it is you buy, it seems they have good reviews and less issues than their competitors.
My recent purchase:
Newegg.com - EVGA 01G-P3-1465-AR GeForce GTX 465 (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
Danny boy
Thanks for the suggestions guys
SteveLord
MSI R6850-PM2D1GD5/OC MSI R6850-PM2D1GD5/OC HD 6850 1GB GDDR5 2xDualDVI/HDMI Video Card Retail from mwave.com
6850 at $149 after MIR.
badboyeee
Just checked out the 6850, it looks like the best mid-range card to get right now.
But note that since your system is prebuilt by Acer, most likely there will be limitations. Check out the power rating of your power supply unit. I highly doubt it can handle the GTX 465, the recommended power rating of the PSU is a minimum of 550W for that card. It is also pretty huge, you need to check inside of your case how big of a video card you can fit.
The GTX 460 recommends a 450+ watt PSU, the 6850 a 500+ watt PSU.
SteveLord
Oh yes, be sure there is even a PCIE power supply cable. Otherwise, you'll be a lot more limited.
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