Upgrade

[guy93]

I have a pentium D CPU . Dual Core. 2.66GHZ . i want to upgrade my video card from a 7300 Le to a 9600 GSO. would this card bottleneck ? i was looking at this thinking if i tried going higher got 9800 GT it may bottleneck. i just need something to play CS:S max settings smoothly. i kno css is a more a cpu hungry game but i barely ever play in server with more than 12 ppl

http://ncix.com/products/index...65-TR&manufacture=eVGA

 

[AzN]

Bottleneck some yet GSO is 10x faster than your 7300LE. You might want to look into 4670 if you don't have a 400+watt quality power supply.

 

[daveybrat]

Definitely a HUGE upgrade for you. I'd go with it.

 

[guy93]

i have a OCZ 600 Watt PSU .

 

[guy93]

http://ncix.com/search/?categoryid=0&q=9600+GSO

theres a whole bunch here. whats best for me ? i have a 19" monitor so its not a huge resolution im playing at.

 

[AzN]

Some alternatives

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/P...x?Item=N82E16814162007

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/P...x?Item=N82E16814150320

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/P...x?Item=N82E16814121274

The 9600gso seems to be the better of the deal from what I found at newegg.canada. It has 768mb of vram and 1000mhz memory. Pretty much even with 9600gt. Although the fan runs 100% all the time since it doesn't have fan header you can easily do a 7 volt mod without cutting up wires on the video card to get rid of noise.

 

[Tempered81]

Originally posted by: guy93
http://ncix.com/search/?categoryid=0&q=9600+GSO

theres a whole bunch here. whats best for me ? i have a 19" monitor so its not a huge resolution im playing at.

that ASUS 9600GSO TOP looks good.