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My video card is near dead. Any graphic intensive program causes a complete system crash after a bit of artifacting. There have been no major changes to my system, airflow is good as the box is relatively spacious. I think the old guy is just near the end. I can lengthen the amount of time until the crash by removing the side panel and blowing air directly on the card... this is only effective for a short time. Long story short, I need a new card.

I need a cheap card that can run some games. World of Warcraft on low settings... actually that and Civ2 are all I have on my machine right now. I am poor. My wife is a stay at home mom and we have our second son coming... maybe today. I have very little money and just want a quick fix. At some point I may have the cash to buy a new comp, probably not for a few years so I am expanding the life of this one for as long as possible.

I'll check this evening on my actual computer specs as I built part this thing 5 years ago. It was a barebones.

What do you have now...I might have a few cards that I will give you. Is it AGP or PCI-X? I take a lot of trade-in when building custom systems.

Let me know bud.

David

I have a Radeon 9800 XT.

My comp has PCI and AGP slots. (Pretty sure). No PCI-x. It is an nForce K8N Neo.

Let me dig through the pile tomorrow and see what I have bud.

I appreciate it.

Wife went into labor on the 17th. My second son was born on the 18th. Video card died on the 20th.

Anyone have any leads on a good, cheap video card or inexpensive laptop?

Here's the list of 48 i found at newegg.com for AGP cards:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductLi ... %204X%2f8X

The best I have is a GeForce 6600 Toltec....sorry I forgot to check earlier.

You can have it if you want it...but I will test it first before I send it to you.

Oh...and your motherboard only supports AGP per the MSI info.

David

I see a few options on the list from Hat (thanks for that btw):

GeForce 6200 for $44 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814150107

GeForce 6800XT Open Box for $27 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 814141075R
It is 128MB

GeForce 6800XT Open Box for $48 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 814141038R
This one is 256MB

What do you guys think of these? Or would I be just as smart to accept the 6600? I'm not playing much in the way of new games, and this computer will likely get replaced in two years or so.

The 6600 and 6800 are pretty comparable. If you're playing WoW and the like, the 6600 will be just fine. If you're playing anything newer than WoW, you may have to turn some detail down, but it'd still be playable.

Spinning Hat wrote:The 6600 and 6800 are pretty comparable. If you're playing WoW and the like, the 6600 will be just fine. If you're playing anything newer than WoW, you may have to turn some detail down, but it'd still be playable.

On those cards, you'll have to turn some detail down on WoW if you want to maintain 30FPS anywhere more crowded than inside a dungeon.

Im running a 6800GS

Yeah, if you're pushing too many polys you'll notice a difference between the 6800 and 6600. But the 6600 is not a bad card at all!

I sent David a PM. Hopefully I can get this fixed soon.

You should be very happy with the 6600.

Haven't heard from Iceman in a while. Going to do some checking on a new card.