help with picking new graphics card

[[TiG]ABE]

ok  i think it was data that told me the xfx 6600GT would be a good card to get

well iam a noob to all this shit with graphics cards.
fairy was on irc 2nite talkn about his power suply and could it push the 9800pro he was looking at.

well i have a  dc out put of 250w  is that ok for this card.

is there anything i should check like memory types and that.

i no i have a agp slot.lol thats it. think i read that the xfx 6600GT does not need a seprate power suply like most graphics cards does this mean i can slot it in to the agp slot like my old graphics card.

can sum1 help as i dnt wana have 2 go and buy it and repack it and send it back and doin that with every card till i find 1 that works. :roll:

[[TiG]Devil_Monkey]

I'd help but I'm still mesmerised by the bouncing Ford. :shock:

[[TiG]ABE]

ANY1???

[[GIT]Fairy]

If you wanna get a semi decent card that will allow you to play the current games then an ATI 9800 Pro should do the job.

You could spend a lot more only to find the rest of the machine inst up to the job.  I think you said you had a 14" screen.  I'd advise you to buy a cheapo decent 17" or 19" CRT and an 9800 pro and then you'll be fairly OK.

Data would be the best man to advise., or better than that post on boards.ie in the computer secion.

Fairy

[[TiG]ABE]

min psu is 300 for xfx and it needs molex conecton  will this card still work with a 250w psu  at all. or does the molex connection slove the wattage?

[[GIT]Fairy]

Cant see it ABE.  Why not scale down your gfx card and buy a nice monitor as well?

Fairy

[[TiG]ABE]

just bought the flat screen 1 lol.



wat u mean scale down the card is olny 150 quid.
 

[[TiG]Devil_Monkey]

I had a Dell 8100
1.7GHz Williamette
1x combi drive DVD/CDRW
1x HDD
9800XT with molex requirement.
I believe it was a 250Watt.
I ran it for a year without problems.

I don't know if anyone can deduce anything relevent from that.
Those cards didn't really need all that much juice tbh.
The new ones might.

[tig|Bosco]

The 6600GT AGP is the better buy at the moment methinks; it's significantly faster than the 9800Pro (see here), particularly with Anti-Aliasing turned on, and depending on where you buy it from it's not that much more expensive.

As regards the PSU, 250W should be fine as long as you don't have too many extra devices like hard disks and optical drives in your system.  You won't know until you plug it in though to be honest, as not all PSU manufacturers are completely honest when it comes to claims about their product's specs.  The card will probably come with a molex splitter so you won't have to worry about whether or not you have a spare power connecter in your system.

[[TiG]ABE]

MITE JUST GIVE IT A GO AND IF IT DNT WORK AWH WELL  JUST SEND IT BACK

IF THE MIN WATT IS 300 MY 250 WONT EVEN BE ABLE 2 POWER IT WOULD IT NOT


BTW BOSCO R U BACK AS I SEE TIG? :shock:

[tig|Bosco]

My tag was never 'culled' so to speak, on the forum at least.

The card manufacturers will say it needs a 300W to cover their own asses. In reality it all depends on how much power the rest of your system consumes, and how close to 250W output your power supply actually comes.

[Kayos]

My tag was never 'culled' so to speak, on the forum at least.

The card manufacturers will say it needs a 300W to cover their own asses. In reality it all depends on how much power the rest of your system consumes, and how close to 250W output your power supply actually comes.

He's on the slippery slope back to TiG already ....

In the famous words of Peter Griffen

"Cam on, Cam on, cam on"

 

[[TiG]ABE]

:wink:  u no ya wana