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ATI Radeon or nVidia GeForce graphics card

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  • 25-03-2009 4:37pm
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    oblivious
    Registered Users Posts: 4,381 ✭✭✭


    Hi all

    I am getting am new dell PC, the graphic card options that I am interested in are the 512MB ATI® Radeon™ HD 4670 graphics card [Included in Price] or the 512MB nVidia GeForce 9800GT graphics card [add € 60.00 ],

    Is the GeForce 9800GT worth the extra cash? Any input would be greatly appreciated


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    Effluo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,890 ✭✭✭Effluo


    What are you going to be doing on the pc?


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    Rebel021
    Registered Users Posts: 943 ✭✭✭Rebel021


    Unless you're into gaming that card is more than adequate


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    oblivious
    Registered Users Posts: 4,381 ✭✭✭oblivious


    PC for the home with some gaming for me, I was look to see what would be the best option for gaming requirements 2 years down the road or so?

    Thanks for the relpys


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    TerrorFirmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    Rebel021 wrote: »
    Unless you're into gaming that card is more than adequate

    Even if you are gaming that card is still adequate unless you have a fairly large monitor. At 1440x900 down, it'd be well capable of playing most new games at generally high settings.

    The 9800GT is a good card too and 60 euro to upgrade is fairly reasonable compared to Dells usual extortion.

    Don't bother with this 'I want to future proof it to last 2 years at high settings' thing if you're just a casual gamer, it's far, far cheaper to buy a new budget card every year or so. Like the Radeon 4670 you have there for example. A top of the line video card will often be worth about 30% its value in a years time, and then you'll have newer cards released that'll match the performance for half the original price paid.

    I used to shell out hundreds every few months/6 months for a new card, as I always wanted to play games at 1920x1200 max settings, but these days I've only got a few hours per week to play games so I've been using budget cards - they still play games at a reasonable rate but dropping huge amounts of cash on cards that get exercised once a week was just a plain waste.


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    oblivious
    Registered Users Posts: 4,381 ✭✭✭oblivious


    Thanks lads for the reply's:), I think I might go with the 9800GT if it the PC still come under my price range


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    Wonda-Boy
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    You would build a PC for less money and it would be a better spec....DELL PC's are bad on so many levels bang for buck being one.....hell if you cant get anyone to build you a PC I will do it for ya....PM me.


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    oblivious
    Registered Users Posts: 4,381 ✭✭✭oblivious


    Thanks for the offer Wonda-Boy but I am grand:)


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    Effluo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,890 ✭✭✭Effluo


    Wonda-Boy wrote: »
    You would build a PC for less money and it would be a better spec....DELL PC's are bad on so many levels bang for buck being one.....hell if you cant get anyone to build you a PC I will do it for ya....PM me.

    Will you build mine??? ;)


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