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This Video Card Any Good?
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River Chocobo


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Old Jul 29, 2006, 10:33 PM Local time: Jul 29, 2006, 09:33 PM #1 of 20
It's a vast improvement over any onboard, but it's nothing to scream about. Can your motherboard support a PCI-Express graphics card?

I'm not a big fan of Diamond. The card isn't great at all. I would grab a 6600GT before this thing.

Jam it back in, in the dark.
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Old Jul 30, 2006, 02:02 AM Local time: Jul 30, 2006, 01:02 AM #2 of 20
Originally Posted by Tsunade
Yeah but the price for 6600GT 128MB is $319.95... the diamond 512 is $120 that's a HUGE price difference... so it's no good then? What's the extend it can handle? (like what kinda games is it's limit)... btw can you tell if it's a shared or direct video card?
Stop looking at FutureShop! :////

http://www.ncix.com/search/?quicksea...ice=Max.+Price

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Originally Posted by Tsunade
I think the price is pretty good for the above deal, but being a newbie I am in computers I have no clue if it's direct/shared or if that video card is any good... can someone advice me?
Your Xpress 200M graphics card is shared memory (it doesn't have it's own video RAM,so it uses your system's RAM) because it's built into the motherboard. Practically every video card saleable has dedicated video RAM (it won't use your system's RAM for graphics rendering.)

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Old Jul 31, 2006, 02:08 PM Local time: Jul 31, 2006, 01:08 PM #3 of 20
I believe www.tigerdirect.ca is based in Ontario. Or check www.ncix.com. These are pretty much the best online shops in Canada.

A 500W power supply will be plenty for your needs. Unless you plan on running two of those X850s at once, you will probably never need more than a 500W.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.
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Old Aug 9, 2006, 01:01 PM Local time: Aug 9, 2006, 12:01 PM #4 of 20
Where did you buy from? NCIX? You should send their customer support a ticket (email). I bought a card reader once and found it disappeared from their site. They responded with being completely dumbfounded and offered to fix the mistake by sending me the new model.

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