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AppleShark
25 Jun 2008, 06:37pm
nVidia might finally have some real competition this time: AnandTech Review (http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3341&p=1)

dpgpowerlifter
25 Jun 2008, 11:04pm
nice ill check it out, but i am more of a nividia person

BOOWY
26 Jun 2008, 07:38am
I've had bad experiences with ATI cards... though really I haven't used anything else so it could be how all cards are. I've had a 9600XT which after awhile gave me serious visual glitches in World of Warcraft. It's like some polygons on terrain extend forever and you see these blocks across the screen while others were like triangles and they stayed stuck to the weapon on my back or something... it was retarded. Then I got my current card, an X1300, and while it's doing okay now I did start noticing some small abnormalities in World of Warcraft in certain areas.

SpikedRocker
26 Jun 2008, 07:44am
I still run a 9200. It hasn't really given me too many problems I don't expect. The memory for it is a bit small to todays norms but I feel it doesn't affect my game play a whole lot. I'm happy with my 3-4 year old card :tongue_smilie:

GMan
26 Jun 2008, 09:06am
My Dull Dell can only accommodate a single slot card :sad:

Widow
26 Jun 2008, 09:07am
My Dull Dell can only accommodate a single slot card :sad:

Waaa ur case only has 1 expansion slot?

in any case the 4850 is single slot :P

GMan
26 Jun 2008, 09:17am
Waaa ur case only has 1 expansion slot?

Dell BTX motherboard, basically the graphics card is flipped so the fan is facing up.

Widow
26 Jun 2008, 09:52am
all BTX mobos are are ones mounted on the other side. It should still fit a 2 slot GPU if its standard BTX

Daze
26 Jun 2008, 03:18pm
I've had bad experiences with ATI cards... though really I haven't used anything else so it could be how all cards are. I've had a 9600XT which after awhile gave me serious visual glitches in World of Warcraft. It's like some polygons on terrain extend forever and you see these blocks across the screen while others were like triangles and they stayed stuck to the weapon on my back or something... it was retarded. Then I got my current card, an X1300, and while it's doing okay now I did start noticing some small abnormalities in World of Warcraft in certain areas.

its not the graphics card thats sh!te, its the game.

GMan
26 Jun 2008, 10:02pm
all BTX mobos are are ones mounted on the other side. It should still fit a 2 slot GPU if its standard BTX

http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/7337/img1026xw6.jpg