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Old 10-21-2008, 12:38 AM
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Hi guys!

Unfortunately my old 6800ultra crashed and I need to get a new VGA.
Since I intent to seriously upgrade my system only after SoW is out (I do not play any other game besides some chess, mahjong...lol), I was thinking of this card: MSI NX8500GT-TD256EH/D2 256MB PCI-E RETAIL

Is anyone using it?
Anyone knows if it's a decent card for 1946?
Any known issues with it?

Thank you!
Hm, it's difficult to find a nice card, and in the midrange that seems to be getting worse, lots of nice cards, at nice prices, and no very clear ranking system.

I tend to use a couple of sites when I'm comparing cards. I hope it's okay to post links:

A review site which has a rate nifty compare two cards page (this is the front page, you have to click card database, then pick a comparison, then you can use the dropdown selection to pick cards to compare). They have data on a lot of cards:

http://www.gpureview.com/

The monthly gpu chart at the end of Tom's Hardware's best graphics card feature. You need to go to the front page and renew your bookmarks for this every month:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...rd,2033-7.html

I'm sure someone will have posted these here before somewhere, but I don't know where, and it seems the original poster might not.

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Old 10-21-2008, 03:21 AM
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If money right now is tight and you don't play on a high res I'd go for a 9600GT. You can find them at the egg for $70 after rebate:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130393

It would beat both the 85/8600 cards and won't break the bank.

As for ranking the various cards from top to bottom:
88/9800GT
9600GT
6800 Ultra
8600
8500

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Old 10-21-2008, 07:23 AM
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Thank you ALL!

You gave me all that I needed to understand how's the status in vga's at this moment.

After all this, I think I'll go for this one: http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?f...30&cat2_no=136 , or this one: http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/...ProductID=2785
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Old 10-21-2008, 12:49 PM
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Those choices should satisfy your needs just fine in the short term.
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Old 10-21-2008, 01:08 PM
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Little question: The newer cards are for pci/e slot... Is your old 6800Ultra for pci/e or for AGP???
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Old 10-21-2008, 01:17 PM
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