which graphics card should I choose

3DModelerMan · Post by **3DModelerMan** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 10:18 pm

Hi I have a birthday coming up, and I'm going to ask my mom to upgrade my GFX card, what would be a good low priced option, that fully supports openGL (high level shaders and all)?.
Thanks for the advice.

bitplane · Post by **bitplane** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 12:53 am

What's your budget? Pretty hard to make a recommendation without knowing how much money you've got to spend

3DModelerMan · Post by **3DModelerMan** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 2:58 am

I don't know really, something around 60 or 70$ would be nice, but I would have to 100$ to 150$ range?.

torleif · Post by **torleif** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 6:39 am

NVidia have good high end cards, but ATI tend to have better computing power per dollar, especially in the low end range.

There are a lot of NVidia fan boys out there who would argue hands down that their better, but the best one to buy tends to fluctuate

Oh, and order online if you can. You get more for your money. Perhaps a Radeon X1600 Pro or a GeForce 8600 GTS

dlangdev · Post by **dlangdev** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 6:48 am

Browse this website: slickdeals.net

http://slickdeals.net/

Good cards pass around there with very attractive prices.

Pounce on the right one when you see something really special.

nmn · Post by **nmn** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 8:43 am

torleif wrote: There are a lot of NVidia fan boys out there who would argue hands down that their better, but the best one to buy tends to fluctuate

I'm a fan of NVidia just over ATI - ATI will likely get you more raw power, but for many reasons it's not really as good as the equivalent NVidia card in all cases. It really depends on what you do with the card - If you run OpenGL intensive applications that you didn't write you may have problems since ATI cards don't have the best OpenGL support ever, and is stricter about proper OpenGL usage than NVidia (So applications created by people using NVidia cards will almost certainly create problems, no matter how much of an OpenGL guru they are...)

In the end, Most professional and the most popular free/open applications and libraries should be just fine with ATI cards. NVidia works good when you want a highend card. ATI works good when you want to get the best performance for your money and know your applications will all work right with it. NVidia cards also run under Linux a bit better than ATI atm, but that can change (Don't know if that matters to you, but just in case I thought I'd mention it.)

3DModelerMan · Post by **3DModelerMan** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 3:02 pm

What about the fireGL cards from amd?, are those good ones?.

twilight17 · Post by **twilight17** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 4:04 pm

3DModelerMan wrote:What about the fireGL cards from amd?, are those good ones?.

AMD owns ATI btw

3DModelerMan · Post by **3DModelerMan** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 5:28 pm

Oh I did'nt know that... so really buy talking about ati cards you were also meaning amd cards.

3DModelerMan · Post by **3DModelerMan** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 1:56 am

Will the Radeon X1600 Pro work on a windows XP system?.

torleif · Post by **torleif** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 2:58 am

3DModelerMan wrote:Will the Radeon X1600 Pro work on a windows XP system?.

yes

From my personal experience, I brought a ATI and NVidea card (128mb, 256mb respectively) in roughly the same price range a few years back.

The Nvidea card had a lot less problems with installing and worked great on my linux partition, and ATI was hard to install and required .NET (which took up a massive 400MB)

But the NVidea card didn't have pixel shaders and ran slower than the ATI. my ATI can still play modern games, but my NVidea can't. Oh, and I booted up a live CD the other day and it now supports linux. So in the long run the cheaper ATI won out, despite first impressions.

BlindSide · Post by **BlindSide** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 5:09 am

torleif wrote:
3DModelerMan wrote:Will the Radeon X1600 Pro work on a windows XP system?.
yes

From my personal experience, I brought a ATI and NVidea card (128mb, 256mb respectively) in roughly the same price range a few years back.

The Nvidea card had a lot less problems with installing and worked great on my linux partition, and ATI was hard to install and required .NET (which took up a massive 400MB)

But the NVidea card didn't have pixel shaders and ran slower than the ATI. my ATI can still play modern games, but my NVidea can't. Oh, and I booted up a live CD the other day and it now supports linux. So in the long run the cheaper ATI won out, despite first impressions.

What an overly subjective review. Did you think maybe that you got ripped off buying a card with no pixel shaders a few years back?

I would say go for anything these days, just try to get a good bargain in general, theres alot of websites that tell you best the deals around right now, so go look at those before deciding what to buy.

dlangdev · Post by **dlangdev** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 7:18 am

Also, check this website as well.

http://www.guru3d.com/

Sorry, that site are not for n00bs, though.

Whatever...

3DModelerMan · Post by **3DModelerMan** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 2:49 pm

The radeon X1600 pro is the one that looks the best, I need to know one more thing though before I get it, I have a compaq laptop if I buy this one http://www.compusa.com/applications/sea ... etailspecs will it work in a laptop?.
Thanks

.

Sorry, I'm not exactly a hardware expert, I'm better with software.

sudi · Post by **sudi** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 3:35 pm

HAHAHA......thats a normal graphic card...it will not work in your laptop sry man. its pretty hard to put a new graphics card on ur laptop mainboard if it even possible with yours.
anyway ur better of buying a new laptop or a new computer.

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