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    onboard vs. 9800GT?

    Great replies thank you. I'm looking at a couple cards now. With either the 4850 or the 9800 would I need a new ps? My current one is 350 watts. If so, there is one on newegg with great reviews that is 430 watts for 40 bucks and one that is 500 watts for 50 bucks. Which would be adequate?
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    onboard vs. 9800GT?

    oh and I have an OLD monitor and its max resolution is 1280 by 1024. I know, time for a new monitor too.
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    onboard vs. 9800GT?

    Thanks for the replies everyone! Would I see a large performance increase going from what I have currently into a 9800gt or gtx or 4850 in Crysis? I use this game because its really the first next/current gen game I've played on a new computer. The other cared I was looking at was a...
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    onboard vs. 9800GT?

    On my computer device manager listing it has two listings like the following: Display Adapters Nvidia GeForce 9400 (GeForce 8200 + GeForce 9300 GE) Nvidia GeForce 9400 (GeForce 9300GE + GeForce 8200) Looks like a duplicate listing, but is this just a plain old onboard graphics...
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    card upgrade/help understanding pci 1.0 and 2.0

    Thank you, that helps on one question but the bigger one is how do I find out if my motherboard is pciexpress 1.0 or 2.0? All it says is PCI Express x16?
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    card upgrade/help understanding pci 1.0 and 2.0

    Hey everyone, I bought an HP a month ago with the ASUS M2N78-LA motherboard. It only has onbaord graphics so I need to change that. Only problem is I haven't upgraded a video card in probably four years. Last time I did I bought an ATI Radeon 9800. Now I see there is pci, pci express and...