WHATS BEST FOR GAMING

GRAPHICS

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thinking of buying  acer aspire m5640  desktop   with  quad  q6600      but not sure on graphics can have   NVIDIA  8800GT  OR  8600GS  OR RADEON ATI 3850X    ANY   VIEWS
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
I'd go with the 8800GT.
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

The 8800GT is the best of those cards.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
DON'T BUY A PREBUILT DESKTOP
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Custom built is the best way to go. That way you don't have any of the bloat the company always installs with the OS, you can pick out all your own hardware, etc.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I have the 1GB 8800GT...fantastic card for reasonable money. I'm a happy customer.
Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top
I have the 1GB 8800GT...fantastic card for reasonable money. I'm a happy customer.
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you'd also be if you bought the 512MB 8800GT because the 1GB GT is a way to prey on consumers that don't know anything about VRAM and just think MORE MEGABYTEEEES = more power

why ?
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because you'll get sacked with a mediocre build and pay out the nose for it. it's likely that by buying the parts you could get at least a substantial GPU upgrade (for example 3850/3870) for the same price
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
you'd also be if you bought the 512MB 8800GT because the 1GB GT is a way to prey on consumers that don't know anything about VRAM and just think MORE MEGABYTEEEES = more power
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Well when the price difference is only $20AU why the hell not buy it!!!! ;)
Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top
I have a 512MB ATI 4870. I love, love, love it. And i got it free (long story)
Reply #10 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
i would go with a 2Gb acer vista compute and run on NVIDIA or 8800GT one or the other. why acer because it seems its the only desktop that runs well on vista and its cheap. so
Reply #11 from Stardock Forums Top
JUST GONE TO ANOTHER SHOP WHERE THERE WAS ACER M5640 QUAD Q9300 ? NVIDA GEFORCE 3850 1028 MB CANT FIND ANY THING ON THE CARD ON THE WEB MAYBE JUST FOR ACER ? IM RUNNING ON A ASPIRE 9420 LAPTOP WITH GEFORCE 7 WHICH ANY DRIVER DOWNLOADS COME FROM ACER ONLY AND PLAYS SINS OK BUT SLOW AND I LIVE IN FRANCE WHERE NOT TO MUCH CUSTOM BUILTS
Reply #12 from Sins Forums Top
because you'll get sacked with a mediocre build and pay out the nose for it. it's likely that by buying the parts you could get at least a substantial GPU upgrade (for example 3850/3870) for the same price
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Not always. I found a good deal with Dell. If I'd custom built, I'd have payed at least another $300-$500 for just the hardware. I also got a few good bits of software.

whitehall,

Do you mean the Radeon 3850?
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The 4850/4870 seems to be the sweet spot at the moment, the 4870 is somewhere around $280 and outperforms everything except a GTX 280 and a 9800 GX2 from nVidia, both of which are far more expensive.
I'd go with the 4850 in your case, you can find them for somewhere around $170 and the card will still outperform an 8800GT, even all the way up to a 9800GTX, unless your budget doesn't allow for it that is.
Reply #14 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
FROM ACER ONLY AND PLAYS SINS OK BUT SLOW AND I LIVE IN FRANCE WHERE NOT TO MUCH CUSTOM BUILTS
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i am playing sins and it runs fine on my acer
Reply #15 from Sins Forums Top
Why a quad core a fast duel core can do the job and better usualy, depending on how the programs threed the cpu bandwith.
And whar OS are you going to run, if vista get the max 4Gigs you will need. you can get more but then you have to do specail things to ur comp.
Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top
And whar OS are you going to run, if vista get the max 4Gigs you will need. you can get more but then you have to do specail things to ur comp.
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Actually 32 bit will only see 3.5gb max (thats with a 512mb videocard, as the memory for the videocard increases, the amount of system memory seen will decrease).
Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
If you're a hardcore gamer and loaded, get a SLI card 100% either 8xxx or 9xxx
By the way what kind of port does the motherboard support, might be a good idea to investigate that.
Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top
If you're a hardcore gamer and loaded, get a SLI card 100% either 8xxx or 9xxx
By the way what kind of port does the motherboard support, might be a good idea to investigate that.
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Why bother with nVidia? ATi not only has the advantage at the moment but you also get better picture quality and far better driver development. At the moment the only people buying nVidia cards are the people looking for THE top card, so far thats the 9800 GX2 which costs roughly $500 USD. But im sure that will change soon as the 4870 X2 matures through drivers.
Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I have the quite opposite experience regarding driver quality.

As for which card got the upperhand it switch all the time, so it doesn't matter IMHO. They'll always spit out a new card out to be "number 1".
Reply #20 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
DON'T BUY A PREBUILT DESKTOP
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Custom built may be the best way to go, but I think it's a bit unreasonable to expect everybody to have such skills. Not everybody is skilled enough to build their own computer.

you'd also be if you bought the 512MB 8800GT because the 1GB GT is a way to prey on consumers that don't know anything about VRAM and just think MORE MEGABYTEEEES = more power
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In the case of games, the high resolution textures with the latest games are pushing memory through the roof. More VRAM will help most of the newest games.

ATi not only has the advantage at the moment but you also get better picture quality and far better driver development.
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There is no picture quality difference between the manufacturers for games. A high end nVidia card will give you the same results as a high end ATI card.

Driver quality is the same right now. Both manufacturers have very stable drivers. I have zero troubles with games with my nVidia video card with current drivers.

At the moment the only people buying nVidia cards are the people looking for THE top card, so far thats the 9800 GX2 which costs roughly $500 USD.
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I think nVidia is trying to push their GeForce GTX 280s as the latest video card. By the way, Newegg is selling GX2s for $300.
Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Driver quality is the same right now. Both manufacturers have very stable drivers. I have zero troubles with games with my nVidia video card with current drivers.
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I beg to differ. In Vista nVidia still has quite a few problems that ATi doesn't. I'm not saying ATi's drivers are perfect but they sure are developed far better than nVidia's are under VISTA.
I think nVidia is trying to push their GeForce GTX 280s as the latest video card. By the way, Newegg is selling GX2s for $300.
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Fair enough, but the majority of the 9800 GX2's (the ones with higher clock speeds) are over $100 more.
Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top
get a radeon 4850 and never look back. for less than $200, it can't be beaten. and astyanax0 is right, amd/ati has better driver development for vista.
Reply #23 from Sins Forums Top
Using 8800GT with Vista, and having no problems at all.
Reply #24 from Sins Forums Top
I've got a QC6600 with a 8800GTS w/320m with 4 Gigs of Ram and my setup runs great.

On my last game of Sins, I pushed the RAM use past 2 gigs so get all the RAM you can afford.  :) 

I vote Nvidia by the way - GPU plus mb processor.

Also Win XP...