I'm currently using a 9800GT, and for this price its okay. I'd personally rather opt for a better card, the last thing I played was Stalker, which ran a little less than satisfactory. You probably won't get a whole lot of mileage out of anything less.
#62
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Posted 05 August 2010 - 07:39 PM
I'm currently using a 9800GT, and for this price its okay. I'd personally rather opt for a better card, the last thing I played was Stalker, which ran a little less than satisfactory. You probably won't get a whole lot of mileage out of anything less.
the only game i play on pc is starcraft 2 and i dont expect to play any otherd. is it worth spending 50 bucks to play a single game with better graphics? i am leaninlmmg towards no but want some opinions.
#63
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Posted 05 August 2010 - 07:56 PM
I would say it's worth it since it is only $50 and not $200 or even $100. You may find other games you want to play and you should be able to max out the graphics on SC2 with this. If you plan on playing SC2 for a long time, buy it, if not pass especially if the graphics don't bother you and there is no slowdowns.
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Posted 05 August 2010 - 08:01 PM
I would say it's worth it since it is only $50 and not $200 or even $100. You may find other games you want to play and you should be able to max out the graphics on SC2 with this. If you plan on playing SC2 for a long time, buy it, if not pass especially if the graphics don't bother you and there is no slowdowns.
The graphics don't bother me and there are no slow downs. I'm cheap, which is why I come to this site and this card would make the game cost $110 + tax and that seems damn pricey. Would it be better to wait another year or two and get a $50 graphics card then?
#65
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Posted 05 August 2010 - 08:19 PM
the only game i play on pc is starcraft 2 and i dont expect to play any otherd. is it worth spending 50 bucks to play a single game with better graphics? i am leaninlmmg towards no but want some opinions.
Then you could probably run it maxed out, though I have noticed some consistent stutter. It may have been because of low RAM though, (only running 2GB) and not the graphics card, as my crappy laptop graphics card can run it flawlessly with 4GB of RAM.
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Posted 05 August 2010 - 08:33 PM
Thanks for this! I had to go to their customer service to see if I could add that.. where they thought it couldn't be done -- but just cancelled the first order and re-ordered and it worked.That MSI 250 is nice. I have the same card, but the cooler on that one is much better. Don't forget to choose the combo deal (which adds a voucher giving you the option to choose Street Fighter IV, Dark Void, or Resident Evil 5 for free) if you purchase this card.
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Posted 09 August 2010 - 12:44 AM
Just got my 9800GT today and it's pretty nice. I didn't bother overclocking or anything, it's running at 57C. More than happy with it
Is that while playing a game? Or while just sitting on the desktop? Because if that is the temperature sitting at idle, that's pretty warm.
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Posted 09 August 2010 - 01:11 AM
Quick question from someone who doesn't know much about graphics cards:
I got a new computer last year, which came with a 9800. When people talk about running two 9800s SLI, does that simply mean using two graphics cards? If I bought one here, could I simply put it in my computer with my existing 9800, and run games that much better?
Sorry if it seems like a stupid question, but I really don't know too much about the inner workings of computers. But if a second card could raise my fps in SC2 from 30 to 60 fps, and maybe let me run BC2 maxed out, I may jump on this.
I got a new computer last year, which came with a 9800. When people talk about running two 9800s SLI, does that simply mean using two graphics cards? If I bought one here, could I simply put it in my computer with my existing 9800, and run games that much better?
Sorry if it seems like a stupid question, but I really don't know too much about the inner workings of computers. But if a second card could raise my fps in SC2 from 30 to 60 fps, and maybe let me run BC2 maxed out, I may jump on this.
#71
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Posted 09 August 2010 - 01:35 AM
Quick question from someone who doesn't know much about graphics cards:
I got a new computer last year, which came with a 9800. When people talk about running two 9800s SLI, does that simply mean using two graphics cards? If I bought one here, could I simply put it in my computer with my existing 9800, and run games that much better?
Sorry if it seems like a stupid question, but I really don't know too much about the inner workings of computers. But if a second card could raise my fps in SC2 from 30 to 60 fps, and maybe let me run BC2 maxed out, I may jump on this.
Not a stupid question at all! Yeah, SLI is running two Nvidia cards in parallel (the ATi/AMD version is called Crossfire), but there are all kinds of caveats. For one thing, you have to have a motherboard that will support it. I think it's supposed to be better if you use identical cards-as in same manufacturer and even BIOS revision...but I guess you don't HAVE to now?
More to the point though, you don't get double the performance from it, and games have to rely on profiles, and there are sometimes weird performance hitches on some games. basically you're usually better off buying a single new card instead...like this card has 112 cores I think, and Nvidia's GTX 280s or whatever had like 240 cores, and the GTX 480 line has 480 of their newer designed cores. Point being like a $200 card would be less hassle and give a bigger performance boost than buying a second one of these.
It kind of seems like SLI is mostly good for people who want bleeding edge hardware, and want to do something crazy like put two 480s in their system or something.
(Guess I should note too, Nvidia and AMD/ATi's core counts aren't comperable...generally speaking it seems like 32 of Nvidias are roughly the same as 120 of ATis, although there are some cards where it seems like the ratio is worse than that, like on notebooks the best 128 core Nvidia part is coming weirdly super close to ATi's 800 core part.)
#72
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Posted 09 August 2010 - 01:39 AM
Quick question from someone who doesn't know much about graphics cards:
I got a new computer last year, which came with a 9800. When people talk about running two 9800s SLI, does that simply mean using two graphics cards? If I bought one here, could I simply put it in my computer with my existing 9800, and run games that much better?
Sorry if it seems like a stupid question, but I really don't know too much about the inner workings of computers. But if a second card could raise my fps in SC2 from 30 to 60 fps, and maybe let me run BC2 maxed out, I may jump on this.
Your mother board needs to be SLI compatiable (meaning it has at least two PCI-Express x8 slots and a chipset that can run SLI), which if you bought a prebuilt computer, then I doubt it is. And on top of that, the power supply needs to be able to power the two video cards. Games will only theoretically runs twice as fast when you have two cards, but most will see a ~65% to ~80% improvement.
