Graphic card
By thedreamer09
@thedreamer09 (899)
India
December 13, 2008 8:03pm CST
i am planning to buy a graphic card to play the games on my computer and my budget is around 2000 to 3000 rs
can you suggest a good graphic card of this range
my system configuration is
mercury motherboard
512 mb ram
intel pentium 4 processor
3.0GHz
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5 responses
@mtsandeep (1586)
• India
14 Dec 08
You are from india, right?
I think nvidia 8600gt is a good graphics card to buy for that budget.
The prices are
XFX 8500GT 256MB DDR2 –Rs.2,600
XFX 8500GT 512MB DDR2 –Rs.3,200
XFX 8600GT 256MB DDR3 –Rs.4,200
XFX 8600GT 512MB DDR2 –Rs.4,100
Graphics card is essential for playing games, you can also upgrade the ram to 1 gb after having the graphics card
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@mtsandeep (1586)
• India
31 Dec 08
THANKS buddy for the best response.
if you would like to know the price of other pc components this is the list from pcprice.info . http://www.pcprice.info/computer_price_list_india.htm
@thedreamer09 (899)
• India
14 Dec 08
yes i am from India thanks for providing the prices of the graphics card it was really helpful to me and yeah i will upgrading my system to 1 GB ram
@gohan2091 (544)
•
15 Dec 08
dreamer, with 1GB of ram, you won't be able to utilise a modern graphics card full potential. Of course, it varies on the game but most new games run much better with 2GB than 1GB. My machine had 2GB but I recently added another 2GB to make 4GB because games like Crysis and Sims 2 simply did not run as well as I liked on maximum detail/resolution.
I recommend you get an NVIDIA 9600GT 512MB but be sure you have a PCI-Express slot on your motherboard, as AGP won't be compatible.
@guuyed (12)
• United States
14 Dec 08
hey buddy, trust me, you would not want to play any 3g game on a 512 ram. I mean come on you need more room. even vista which is an operating system need about 1 gig to fully function properly. I also suppose you are really into these next gen games which requires a lot of firepower , codename : memory. The money you have can be sufficient for one of the best graphic cards from the nvidia. Well you could ague that ati is also cool and all that but face it, is like comparing intel to amd. They all have merits and demerits but certainly nvidia is a way better choice. I guess others have recommended it too. So all you need to do is upgrade your ram and/or buy a graphic card with dedicated memory of say 256 or more. You should be fine to play the next gen games for a while and your budget should be fine to take you there I promise. Good luck
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@thedreamer09 (899)
• India
14 Dec 08
i agree with u i don't have enough graphics to play the next generation games and i also want to play them now and 3d games are also not supported by my computer and the last game which i played was GTA San Andreas without a graphic card it also struggled a lot during the progress of the game but i some how managed .but now a days each and every game is asking for the graphic card which is pretty hard for me .so i came to a conclusion that i should upgrade my system with the graphic card
i really need to upgrade it to 1 GB
@AndrewFreyne (6281)
• United Kingdom
22 Dec 08
I don't know if you know about the internal workings of your pc but, do you have a pci express or agp slot? These two slots are ultimately where you will install your graphics card. You will have one slot or the other but not both. Also, I guess if you can increase your memory or ram then you should increase it to the maximum that your system can handle. Here's a good website for your to checkout, it's www.cruicial.com They have a free scan that scans your system and tells you what memory you have in your system and what you can upgrade to. I use this on my own system and it's terrific. I would check you ram, this is the first thing I would do. You can then purchase a graphics card from www.newegg.com I use this site myself and it isn't bad. By the way, if you don't have either the agp or pci express slot then hopefully you have a normal pci slot free and you will have to pick up a standard pci graphics card. Good luck. Andrew
@thedreamer09 (899)
• India
22 Dec 08
i have the agp slot and not the pci slot
thanks for responding .i will check the site
happy lotting
@ChubbySmurf (69)
• China
14 Dec 08
which kind of graphic card interface does your motherboard support?AGP or PCI-E?
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@thedreamer09 (899)
• India
14 Dec 08
my graphic card interface supports AGP 8x
actually what do you mean by these things i.e. AGP and PCI-E
i do not know that they are and i am not from a computer science back ground
@sand_card_4 (131)
• Mexico
14 Dec 08
well I had a Ati radeon you can enter to their page and watch the prices, they also hav the requeriments for the pc
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