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4770 4850 9800xxx @ 1600x1200

EliteRetard

EliteRetard

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I have an older E6600 2.4GHz C2D on a Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 and had an 8800GTS 640MB and 2GB DDR2. The video card fried and Im debating going to 4GB. Overclocking is limited, and the performance of the system was acceptable before the card blew up. I was hoping to get a cheap replacement quickly, but had a hard time figuring out what cards were comparable.

I have another system with an AMD 64 FX-55 (single core) 2GB DDR and an 8800GTS 320 card. I was debating sticking that card in the intel machine and getting a replacement for this system, it runs a CRT that can scale resolutions but typically runs the same 1600x1200. I dont know if I could get a 50$ card for this system that would offer the same performance as it has now, or if I should get one of the three cards mentioned above for the intel system that may improve performance.

Im also looking at heat output, the 640 GTS looks like it overheated to death (would hit 100C while gaming) even though the case has good airflow it doesnt seem to help the video cards (none of the air actually gets into the GPU heatsink). From what I can tell the 4770 would probably be the best option, but it doesnt seem to be in stock anywhere and the ones listed dont use referance coolers that exhaust the air outside the case. The 4850 seems to run hot even at idle, so I dont know if I want that...the easiest option would be another NVidia card because of drivers, but there are sixty 9800 series cards and I dont know how they all compare or their heat output.

Thanks in advance.
 
Most of the cards you mentioned would be CPU limited in the AMD machine, so there would almost be no point in getting them and you might as well go for something inexpensive.

If you got a new card for the Intel machine it would offer a slight improvement, but probably not a huge boost, although with the cost of decent cards being so low (< $100), it's almost wasteful to get a $50 card for the AMD machine that will be worse than the 8800 when you could get a $90~$100 card for the Intel machine which would improve performance.
 
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