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I want to upgrade my video card

IncendiousIncendious Member Posts: 20
in Hardware

Hi,

 

I'm running a Dell XPS 700 with a GeForce 7950 video card. I'd like to upgrade to something faster/better, and two cards that Dell claims are compatible with my rig are a 9500 1GB card and a 9800 512MB card. So, which is the better card: higher number or higher memory?

 

Thanks

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  • noquarternoquarter Member Posts: 1,170

    Originally posted by Incendious
    Hi,
     
    I'm running a Dell XPS 700 with a GeForce 7950 video card. I'd like to upgrade to something faster/better, and two cards that Dell claims are compatible with my rig are a 9500 1GB card and a 9800 512MB card. So, which is the better card: higher number or higher memory?
     
    Thanks

    The higher number. The settings a 9500GT can handle wouldn't even take up 256MB of ram. There's not even a difference between the 9800GT 512MB and 9800GT 1GB.. you need a faster card than that even to run into memory problems.

    Here's the XFX 9800GT 512MB from fry's, $100 but has a $30 rebate, pretty good deal if you don't mind rebates.

  • SuccubusPimpSuccubusPimp Member Posts: 11

    u got 750 GT or 7950 GX2? if u got gx2 and going to 9800 gt then u are downgrading my fen.

     

    7950 gt to 9800 gt is not so far off too. should go with 8800 gtx, 8800 gts 512mb, 9800 gtx, 3870 ect....

  • CleffyCleffy Member RarePosts: 6,414

    If its compatible with a 9800GT then its compatible with any single GPU card.  Every category ATI has the best buy.  Just the truth of this moment in tech.

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