New graphics card needed

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ok thanks for the info tal

 

hmm what do you guys think of this card for a my current pc? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814141108

 

tal you have to remember my psu aint that powerful at only 400watts. the psu came with my nemesis case. i dont have the elite version of the case

 

ide have to upgrade the wwhole computer cuase im still on the socket 939 motherboard. so i just need to replace the graphics card with something better then what i have but i dont want to sink to much money into this one when i cna put the money into a new computer.

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161324

Perhaps this card is what you are looking for. The low bracket makes it a good option for a htpc.

 

ati aint going to work to well for me as im going to be putting linux on here after i get my new computer and ati still dont work well for linux. and it will be a while before i can get the money together for a new pc as i get about 40 a month and im going to need upwards of $1000.

 

been over a month sence i last post. mom just got a new nvidia geforce gt220 was wondering if that would be better then the 9600gt or not. and i was thinkin of using that gt220 till i can get the 9600 gt and let mom use my current 7600 gs till then. what would you guys suggest?

 

GT220 isn't better than the 9600GT - GT240 is roughly equivalent with the 9600GT.

 

ok just checking sence i couldnt remember what was what any more

 

hmm it seems my pc can run a 9800gt and considering ive found a couple of 1gig cards on newegg for around $90-$120 i was thinking of getting one over the 9600gt. im having major graphic issues where ill be browsing and my pc will start to freeze and ill see garbled up graphics on the screen such as this pic.


and i really need a new graphics card soon as im not sure how long this one has as it looks like its already starting to die and i can just forgot about gaming at all right now with it considering my pc just freezes constantly with games and im unable to play any becuase of it

 

got a gts250 in the end to bad its running at less then half speed sence the pci-e 1.0 x16 slot is bad and im stuck using one of my pci-e 1.8 x8 sli slots instead im just glad i had more then just one pci-e slot that can accept graphic cards

 

It's highly unlikely it's running at less than half speed. Click! This is a test of a graphic card twice as fast as your own, as you can see the performance hit of using it at x4 pci-e 2.0 speed (the equivalent of x8 pci-e 1.0) is not too bad.

 

according to a couple of different programs my gpu clocks are less then half their rated value.core clock is at 300mhz out of 738. memory clcok is only at 100mhz out of 1100. and shaders is at 600 out of 1782. so how doe those numbers look to you?

 

Those things should have nothing to do with the card running in x8 pci-e slot. Was your card under heavy load when you were checking the clocks? It looks like power saving technology at work to me.