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Need help picking a video card

Those two cards are pretty bad choices. As a rule of thumb, stay away from any FX series card from Nvidia. The 9550 isn't bad, but for a budget gaming card, i would reccommend an Nvidia 6200 128-bit mem model or a regular 6600 w/128MB or ram. If you can get around $160-170, then you could get a 6600GT, which is a great midrange gaming card. Also, what are your system specs?
 
that cpu will definately be a bottleneck, but if you can find a 6600 agp for around 100 that would be your best bet. Or, a used 9700Pro. A 6200 non-turbocache would work well too.
 
Probably on the core but just mabey maybe on the memory, and it doesn't save you much considering the 9600pro can be overclocked as well.
 
nothing u get should be so good because celerons are crap for gaming (i have a 2.3 ghz one and it sucks badly for 3d stuff) so stick with the lower end ones, so u won't have a bottleneck and waste money.
 
Shinumura i would recoomend that you ditch that celeron and Get a A64 3000+ and then a cheap mobo like a MSI K8N neo4-F

then after that start thinking about a video card to buy

because of the 256k/128k l2 cache celerons have is going to cripple your gaming performace
 
Yes, so let's recommend he gamble with his money, or overclock. He may not want to. Don't assume that he'll care or have the knowledge to take the time to do it.
 
if you like to overclock go with the 6200 and try to unlock the pipes etc

if you know what your doing


if not go with the 9600
 
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