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<blockquote data-quote="jdavis" data-source="post: 1334295" data-attributes="member: 8704"><p>Well it depends, the card I linked was a SE card, the Pro cards are faster and the 5600FX Ultra cards are faster too, but it's cheaper (and twice the card as the 5200FX). It took me all of 2 minutes to find that deal on that card, I can do that price all day and probably beat it with just a little looking around. </p><p> </p><p>As far as the Nvidia vs ATI but, ATI has a long history of driver problems which are fixed now and Nvidias first FX cards were crap which they have fixed now, I'd be wary of older FX cards but the new ones are pretty good. The big thing to remember here is that most of these cards will hit speeds so fast with 99% of the games out there that you won't be able to tell a difference with the human eye in rendering speed, but some do better than others in certain effects areas. The best thing to do is do a little research, it doesn't matter how computer savy you are many articles just spell it out at the end (I couldn't tell you exacty what a benchmark score means myself but I know enough to get the general gyst of what they are saying). It never hurts to pick up enough knowledge so you don't get ripped off, I've talked to a lot of salesmen in stores who didn't actually have a clue what they were talking about they were just feeding the company line on each card, they might as well be reading of the back of the box. Take a hour or two to fish around the internet for info, trust me it will pay off in the end. There is a thread around here with lots of information and some good links already.</p><p> </p><p>(Back at that same site I saw a deal for the NVidia people out there too):</p><p><strong>[font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">MSI GeForceFX 5900 128 MB DDR 8x AGP Video Card w/TV/DVI/VGA</span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: lemonchiffon"><strong><em>[font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: lemonchiffon">Only $178.95</span></span>[/font]</em></strong></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: lemonchiffon"></span></span>[/font]</strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #fffacd"><a href="http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=MSI8929-PB" target="_blank">http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=MSI8929-PB</a></span></span></strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jdavis, post: 1334295, member: 8704"] Well it depends, the card I linked was a SE card, the Pro cards are faster and the 5600FX Ultra cards are faster too, but it's cheaper (and twice the card as the 5200FX). It took me all of 2 minutes to find that deal on that card, I can do that price all day and probably beat it with just a little looking around. As far as the Nvidia vs ATI but, ATI has a long history of driver problems which are fixed now and Nvidias first FX cards were crap which they have fixed now, I'd be wary of older FX cards but the new ones are pretty good. The big thing to remember here is that most of these cards will hit speeds so fast with 99% of the games out there that you won't be able to tell a difference with the human eye in rendering speed, but some do better than others in certain effects areas. The best thing to do is do a little research, it doesn't matter how computer savy you are many articles just spell it out at the end (I couldn't tell you exacty what a benchmark score means myself but I know enough to get the general gyst of what they are saying). It never hurts to pick up enough knowledge so you don't get ripped off, I've talked to a lot of salesmen in stores who didn't actually have a clue what they were talking about they were just feeding the company line on each card, they might as well be reading of the back of the box. Take a hour or two to fish around the internet for info, trust me it will pay off in the end. There is a thread around here with lots of information and some good links already. (Back at that same site I saw a deal for the NVidia people out there too): [b][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=2][color=lemonchiffon]MSI GeForceFX 5900 128 MB DDR 8x AGP Video Card w/TV/DVI/VGA [b][i][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=2][color=lemonchiffon]Only $178.95[/color][/size][/font][/i][/b] [/color][/size][/font][/b] [b][font=Arial][color=#fffacd][url="http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=MSI8929-PB"]http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=MSI8929-PB[/url][/color][/font][/b] [/QUOTE]
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