Until now I was using an Albatron Geforce 9800GT 512MB card which I bought for ~100euros back in 2009. http://www.mwave.com.au/productarchive.asp?sku=42050318 What was good about this card is that it had a 256bit memory bus / interface and pretty much every 3D game played nice and fast on high graphics settings @1280x1024 resolution (Aliens VS Predator 3, Rage, Command & Conquer 3 & 4, Duke Nukem Forever, Black Mesa Half Life Mod, HL2, etc...) How ever it got toasted the other day, so I now I want to buy a new graphics card of at least equivalent performance and similar price range to play the upcoming Doom 3 BFG and some of the upcoming games. (Preferably nvidia as their drivers are better) I checked the current nvidia cards, but noticed that all the cards of that price even though they have better & faster GPUs and more & better video RAM (DDR5 / 1GB/2GB), their memory bus / interface goes only up to 128bit or 192bit the most, which I imagine will bottleneck these cards. Also I noticed that none of the current GFX cards feature a TV-Out output to connect my old CRT TV via Scart or RCA and I don't want to have to buy a new LCD/TFT TV. My PC specs: Intel Core 2 Duo @2.4GHZ 4GB Ram @800MHZ Windows 7 32Bit 19" 4:3 TFT Eizo S1931 Monitor @60HZ My motherboard Asus P5B-E: http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_775/P5BE/#specifications Features 1 x PCIe x16 slot to connect a GFX card on. So which card should I get to cover my above needs? Thanks in advance.
Hi There i came across this on the nvidia page the other day that will help you choose the right card for you give it a go http://www.nvidia.com/content/HelpMeChoose/fx2/HelpMeChoose.asp?lang=en-us Keep me posted on how u go??
Well I don't really like to say it but perhaps you should look for a monitor along with a graphics card. They're not TOO expensive and the resolution would be WAY better than RCA (and probably SCART too, but i don't know much about that connector) the nvidia cards with 256-bit memory bus are (converted from US prices) starting at 139 euros. From a quick look this looks nice: EVGA 01G-P3-1561-AR GeForce GTX 560 Ti FPB (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Core Clock: 850 Mhz (v.s. 822 Mhz reference) Shader Clock: 1700 Mhz (v.s. 1645 Mhz reference) CUDA Cores: 384 For 192-bit memory bus this looks ok: EVGA SuperClocked 01G-P4-2652-KR GeForce GTX 650 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready Chipset Manufacturer: NVIDIA Core Clock: 1202 MHz CUDA Cores: 384 Effective Memory Clock: 5000MHz Hope this helps.
