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Damn Computer Shit .. again

So things didn't work out so well with the Radeon. Every 5 minutes (usually less) the screen would go black and I'd see "display driver atikmdag stopped responding and has successfully recovered". I spent hours updating to the latest catalyst drivers then I spent hours downgrading to older drivers. SO. After careful consideration and hours of reading forums, I chose the eVGA e-GeForce 9600 GT SUPERCLOCKED 512MB DDR3 PCI-E 2.0.

I think this is the card that Rodney has and he says it's pretty good. It may not be the same card, but it's the one I ordered. The only thing I was worried about was my stock 375watt PSU. After reading the Dell forums until my eyes bled, I found that several people can run this card and higher cards by using the stock PSU. Apparently the 375watt can handle it because it pulls more from the wall and has one of those little thingies you can connect to your card directly to your power supply. A P-4 cable (6-pin connector). I also looked at the 8800GT and the.. well I looked at just about all of them. I wanted to keep my price UNDER 200 and I did. My next dealie to buy for my 'upgrading' will (maybe) be a X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Professional. I may decide to upgrade my something else instead.

I need a f00kin job so I can pay for this shit now. I feel like a bad person making my husband unknowingly buy me things while he is hard at work.

 

 

 

From This... To This... (Returned) To This!

NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE

  • Video Output Interface: PCI Express x16
  • Graphics Coprocessor: NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE
  • Memory Technology: DDR II SDRAM
  • Graphics Ram: 128 MB
  • video_input: None Unknown modifier
  • Television Interface: HDTV out
  • ATI Radeon HD 2600XT

  • RAMDAC: Dual 400 MHz
  • Fill Rate per Second: 19.2 Billion pixels
  • Additional Features: Vista Ready
  • Additional Features: RoHS Compliant
  • Additional Features: HDCP Enabled
  • Additional Features: CrossFire Ready
  • Additional Features: HDTV Ready
  • Additional Features: OpenGL 2.0
  • Additional Features: DirectX 10
  • Maximum Resolution: 2560 x 1600 (Digital)
  • Video Memory: 512MB
  • Memory Type: GDDR3
  • Core Clock: 800 MHz
  • Memory Interface: 128-bit
  • Memory Clock: 1400 MHz
  • NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
  • GPU: 675 MHz
  • Stream processors: 64
  • Memory: 512 MB GDDR3
  • Memory bus: 256-bit
  • Shared clock: 1674 MHz
  • Memory bandwidth: 57.6 GB per second
  • Bus type: PCI Express 2.0
  • Output: 2 x DVI, HDTV, S-Video
  • Refresh rate: 240 MHz maximum
  • Resolutions: 2560 x 1600 maximum
  • DirectX support: DirectX 10
  • OpenGL support: OpenGL 2.1
  • Windows Vista certified: Yes
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