I am looking to build a new pc soon and was looking for advice in gfx cards. I dont really know what kind of price range I am looking for, but I will admit I am not a hardcore gamer. I dont play crisis or any of the other top end games. If I had to take a guess Sim City Societies is the most gfx intense game I play, however I am looking for some room to hold me over for another year or two.
Quote:System requirements for Sim City Societies
Windows XP SP2, or Windows Vista,
1.7 GHz Intel CPU, or AMD XP 2100 processor,
512 MB RAM memory, 2.1 GB free hard disk drive space,
128 MB video card,
DVD drive,
DirectX 9.0-compatible video card. (Windows Vista requires a 2.4 GHz processor or equivalent and 1 GB RAM)
One other thing I require besides room to grow, is DVI output.
At a glance on newegg the XFX PVT84JUDD3 GeForce 8600GT XXX 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 SLI Supported Video Card - Retail Card seems very popular..would this be an option?
It would, but even if you're not a real gamer you ought to go for a graphics card that will last you a decent amount of time - you don't want to have to upgrade in a short period of time. Go for an XFX 9600GT instead - much more potent and still reasonably priced.
Thanks, Sam. The XFX 9600GT does look nice and I think i will be going with that most likley but I have time to change the order as I wont be ordering for a month or so still.
