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[Ride Da Fire]

I need help and some advices from you, please help out. The video card I'm using is an EVGA GeForce 7600 512 MB, I had it for almost 2 years. The driver was updated recently, it works fine until this morning. I'm running Windows XP pro and the MB is GIGABYTE GA-K8N Pro-SLI 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD. I'm looking to purchase a new video card (a reliable one) I don't have much experience with any other brands beside EVGA. Any input would be appreciated.

thanks

 

[VitruvianDoc]

Depends on if you want to stick with the NVIDIA chipset (from intel) or go with the ATI Chipset (from AMD, same people as your Motherboard).

I would recommend upgrading to an ATI chipset as it is going to be more compatible with an older motherboard.

Next, how much power you looking for? Do you ever play video games, any new games ie WoW, Crisis 2, Portal, etc?

Next, your motherboard is heavily outdated. Might be time to build a new rig, and if you have a decent case and powersupply, it would maybe be $500 to build a mid-low range PC that still has 8-10x the power of your current

Finally, if you stick to just a graphix card, you need one compatable with PCI Express x16. This again, is outdated and has a HUGE limit on what you can get. Looking a newegg, I only see ~40 card compatable that are still available.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...2&IsNodeId=1&bop=And&Order=RATING&PageSize=20

Visiontek and EVGA are the only two on the list I'd recommend.

If you decide to expand your results by updating Mobo, CPU, Ram, and Graphics: you open yourself to the PCI express 2.0/2.1 x16 world which gives you 10-20x as many choices and in that case, manufacturers such as Saphire, EVGA, MSI, etc... are all good cards, but I always read ratings.

GL

 

[Zombie]

http://www.newegg.com/Store/Category.aspx?Category=38&name=Video-Cards-Video-Devices


read reviews

I personally like Nvidia cards and would stick to them. I don't know your budget to suggest a specific card...

 

[LightningCrash]

If you're not a gamer, an nVidia GeForce 220 would be a fine card. Should be cheap as well.

 

[leftfield]

I usually browse through here for a deal http://hardforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=28 these guys get wooed by Newegg and Tiger Direct with coupons all the time.

I'm not a fan of either ATI/AMD or nVidia, I buy what's the best bang for the buck at the time. Did the old vid card just go kaput? What game(s) do you play? What is your budet for a video card like?

 

[VitruvianDoc]

I usually browse through here for a deal http://hardforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=28 these guys get wooed by Newegg and Tiger Direct with coupons all the time.

I'm not a fan of either ATI/AMD or nVidia, I buy what's the best bang for the buck at the time. Did the old vid card just go kaput? What game(s) do you play? What is your budet for a video card like?

Did you know every single video card uses chip sets either from NVIDIA or AMD? The EVGA, Saphire, etc.. just use the chipset and build the card itself.

 

[Ride Da Fire]

Depends on if you want to stick with the NVIDIA chipset (from intel) or go with the ATI Chipset (from AMD, same people as your Motherboard).

I would recommend upgrading to an ATI chipset as it is going to be more compatible with an older motherboard.

Next, how much power you looking for? Do you ever play video games, any new games ie WoW, Crisis 2, Portal, etc?


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...2&IsNodeId=1&bop=And&Order=RATING&PageSize=20

Visiontek and EVGA are the only two on the list I'd recommend.

If you decide to expand your results by updating Mobo, CPU, Ram, and Graphics: you open yourself to the PCI express 2.0/2.1 x16 world which gives you 10-20x as many choices and in that case, manufacturers such as Saphire, EVGA, MSI, etc... are all good cards, but I always read ratings.

GL

I built this pc back in 2005 ( my first ever built pc on my own ) It's old but still working fine so just want to get a decent Video card for it. I planned to build a new one in December. Thanks

http://www.newegg.com/Store/Category.aspx?Category=38&name=Video-Cards-Video-Devices


read reviews

I personally like Nvidia cards and would stick to them. I don't know your budget to suggest a specific card...

I don't want to spend over $150 for the card.

If you're not a gamer, an nVidia GeForce 220 would be a fine card. Should be cheap as well.

I mainly use the computer for school works and watching video sometimes.

I usually browse through here for a deal http://hardforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=28 these guys get wooed by Newegg and Tiger Direct with coupons all the time.

I'm not a fan of either ATI/AMD or nVidia, I buy what's the best bang for the buck at the time. Did the old vid card just go kaput? What game(s) do you play? What is your budet for a video card like?

Kool thanks.

 

[VitruvianDoc]

I built this pc back in 2005 ( my first ever built pc on my own ) It's old but still working fine so just want to get a decent Video card for it. I planned to build a new one in December. Thanks



I don't want to spend over $150 for the card.



I mainly use the computer for school works and watching video sometimes.




Kool thanks.

Just look at the list that I posted form newegg and pick one.

 

[LightningCrash]

Just look at the list that I posted form newegg and pick one.

Except that your post is wrong. PCI-Express 2.0 is generally backwards compatible with PCI-Express 1.0. This means he can use pretty much anything as long as it doesn't need an extra power connector.

I mainly use the computer for school works and watching video sometimes.

a GeForce GT 220 would be like $60-75 and would be great for anything but games. Works great for watching videos, multiple monitors, etc. It has full 1080p offload on the GPU.

 

[pills510]

I need help and some advices from you, please help out. The video card I'm using is an EVGA GeForce 7600 512 MB, I had it for almost 2 years. The driver was updated recently, it works fine until this morning. I'm running Windows XP pro and the MB is GIGABYTE GA-K8N Pro-SLI 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD. I'm looking to purchase a new video card (a reliable one) I don't have much experience with any other brands beside EVGA. Any input would be appreciated.

thanks

Are you for sure wanting a new card or advise on fixing your current? I would do a system restore to an earlier date first and see if that brings it back to life.