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December 26th, 2007 06:00
Upgrading Video Card XPS400
Hi there, so I'm pretty certain now my current video card is shot and would like to upgrade to something else.
Right now I'm using the GeForce 6800 that came installed in the pc from Dell. It just kinda quit working so I'm having to switch up.
If anyone out there wouldn't mind would you be so kind to look at these links and see if they should be decent cards (I know nothing about newer video cards). Or tell me if I should try for another 6800 from somewhere.
Any input is appreciated, I need a new card soon and these are from a place I can hopefully drive to and pick up in-store. I have to go at least 30 miles in any direction to get anything around here without ordering it through mail. I was mainly looking at the one in the first link because of the 512 MB and less power supply requirement but do those two things really make a difference here?
My specs are
XPS 400
1 GB Ram
2.8 GHZ Dual Core Processor
Currently a broken 6800 NVIDIA card
Windows XP Media Center.
Thanks all.
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Posted December 26th, 2007 15:00
Ok, thank you very much and I have one more question. Will either of those cards be better than the 6800 that came pre-installed from Dell? I'm just curious, I wanna make sure it's something that will mainly play World of Warcraft and a few lower end games well. I'm not much of a pc gamer really but I do enjoy Warcraft. Thanks again.- I don't play WoW, but both of the cards you're looking at would be several steps up from what you have now. You'll also be set for any games that are DX10. Before I bought my 8800GTS, I had a 7900GS and before that the 6800. The 7900GS outperformed the 6800.
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Posted December 26th, 2007 19:00
Thank you very much, I'm glad to know they should increase the performance at least a little then.
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Posted December 26th, 2007 11:00
Message Edited by keithg2 on 12-26-2007 07:13 AM