What Video Card to get

Nonsense Man · Post by **Nonsense Man** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 6:53 pm

Im going to get this computer and I was wondering what video card you guys would recommend??

Jongamer · Post by **Jongamer** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 7:24 am

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ATOMICMAN · Post by **ATOMICMAN** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 8:20 am

build your own computer...

best buy will rape you.

Nonsense Man · Post by **Nonsense Man** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 3:12 pm

Ok i edited my first post with the right link.

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:31 pm

Will you be using it to run the latest and greatest games or what? And what happened to you building a gaming rig?

Nonsense Man · Post by **Nonsense Man** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:01 pm

I will be hoping to run the latest and greatest games and my custom computer got too expensive and this is pretty much the same thing. Oh and the processor is a 2.6 ghz dual core they just don't have the model i'm buying on their online store.

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:21 pm

Since its Vista, get the best GeForce 8800 you can afford off Newegg or Tigerdirect, make sure it has good reviews. That should set you up pretty good for the next few years.

JAY · Post by **JAY** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 8:59 pm

The specs on my computer are fairly close to this (aside from my AMD X2 4200 and 7900GT), but from the looks of the case you may run into some heating problems if you just stick a high-end card into this machine. Mine looks like this, with two fans in the front, one in back (plus the power supply fan), and one on top, and my graphics card (which has a Zalman VF900 installed on it) still gets about 45C when I'm playing demanding games. Although most of what I've seen aren't very good, you may want to install a PCI slot case cooler below your graphics card, since the bottom-back corner of the case doesn't get very good airflow.

You should also check out the power rating for your power supply, to make sure that it will be able to provide the power that your card needs.

It also looks like the motherboard only has 1 PCI-E x16 slot, so I hope you don't have your heart set on going SLI (although with an 8800 card you really won't have to be worried about that for the next couple years anyway).

teraflop122 · Post by **teraflop122** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 9:12 pm

GeForce 8800GTS' can be had for 279 or so now.

Cooling won't be a problem in that case. Assuming it has a 350+ watt power supply, neither will power.

I'm running an 8800GTS, Core 2 Duo, and other amenities in this exact case- a microATX mini-tower- without any performance hinderence or heating issues. My setup has been rock stable since conception.