Your Opinion: Graphics Card

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  1. Posts : 966
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
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    Your Opinion: Graphics Card


    Hey gang,

    I've dealt with IGPs for a long time and never gamed much on the PC because of it. To this day I don't have much desire to do so. The only game I really play is World of Warcraft and I might play Half-Life 2 or whatnot.

    I'm looking for recommendations on a graphics card that can put out enough to max out (or come close) WoW on a 20" LCD @1600x900.

    Ideas?

    Thanks!
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  2. Posts : 384
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64
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    What is your budget?
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  3. Posts : 6,349
    Windows7 Pro 64bit SP-1; Windows XP Pro 32bit
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    That is a laptop according to Google.

    Best I can find on the Sony web site it is an Intel on board graphics card and not replaceable.

    There is no secondary grahics card listed or a driver for a secondary card.
    It appears what you have is all there is.

    If the graphics card is for a desktop not in your system specs how about some info on the desktop.
    Mike
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  4. Posts : 966
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
    Thread Starter
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    Hopalong X said:
    That is a laptop according to Google.

    Best I can find on the Sony web site it is an Intel on board graphics card and not replaceable.

    There is no secondary grahics card listed or a driver for a secondary card.
    It appears what you have is all there is.

    If the graphics card is for a desktop not in your system specs how about some info on the desktop.
    Mike
    I forgot to mention I'm building a desktop rig. LOL, sorry!

    I'd like to keep it under $150. If I have to sacrifice some quality, I'll survive. I was looking at this one Newegg.com - GIGABYTE GV-R567OC-1GI Rev2.0 Radeon HD 5670 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card to get me started. Basically my laptop is dying and I need to build SOMETHING up to catch it when it fails. I can't have any downtime. Building one will allow me to upgrade down the road (something i couldn't do with my laptop besides the RAM and HDD).

    I also ran across this one. Newegg.com - PowerColor AX5770 1GBD5-H Radeon HD 5770 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 CrossFireX Support Video Card

    Converse!
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  5. Posts : 19,383
    Windows 10 Pro x64 ; Xubuntu x64
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    I'm a fan of Nvidia - I use the Nvidia GeForce GTS250 1GB RAM (more than a year old) and play BFBC2 at maximum graphics quality at 1900x1080.
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  6. Posts : 6,349
    Windows7 Pro 64bit SP-1; Windows XP Pro 32bit
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    Newegg.com - Computer Hardware,Video Cards & Video Devices,Desktop Graphics / Video Cards,NVIDIA,GeForce GTS 400 series

    GTS 450 runs $120-140 at Newegg. Supports PhysX

    I'm using a Asus 460 the next step up. They get closer to $200.
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  7. Posts : 296
    Windows 7 Professional
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    @ jelyman

    My vote goes PowerColor HD 5770 for $120, not only is it faster than the GTS 450 in 90% of games but it also requires less power.

    Second would be GTS 450 if you find it for $120 or less. IMO PhysX is useless on a GTS 450 because it does not have enough juice to run both high settings + PhysX, you're better off going for pure power and high settings on the HD 5770. However, the GTS 450 has CuDA for applications and hardware accelerated DivX, Xvid and MPEG-4 which makes it worth $120 if you want these features and don't mind less performance in games. NVIDIA also has 3D which would cost you $200 for the glasses and a new 120hz 3D monitor.

    In contrary the HD 5770 has Stream for videos and hardware accelerated MPEG2, H.264 and VC-1. AMD also has hardware accelerated video conversion built into the drivers and Eye of Infinity which is useless on a HD 5770 anyway like PhysX on a GTS 450. On top of all that the HD 5770 has a display-port output which is the future replacement for DVI.

    Edit: Only a very small number of games support PhysX and with a GTS 450 @ 1600 x 900 you're not going to get 60 FPS max settings in these games and WoW is not one of them.

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  8. Posts : 384
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64
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    The 5670 is not a very good card. I had one and it struggled. I now have HIS IceQ 5 ATi 5770 and it is amazing for its price, comes pre overclocked at 875mhz core and 1250MHz memory.
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  9. Posts : 896
    Windows 7 Ultimate
       #9

    gtx 260, ive been playing the latests games maxed out
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  10. Posts : 384
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64
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    vierasniper said:
    gtx 260, ive been playing the latests games maxed out
    As have I on my ATi 5770
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