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  3. July 2008

Re: Shopping for a good cheap video card

Dan wrote:
I'm not a gamer, my son is (Second Life and others I'm not familiar with),
and he is shopping for a new video card after the one that shipped with his
now two-year old PC (using WinXP) gave up the ghost the other day.

You need to be aware of what sort of slot his computer has for video cards. The two alternatives are AGP and PCI-E (aka PCI Express). I can't remember when PCI-E became standard, but I think with a two year old PC you could have either.


Is spending $50 on a video card expected to handle video intensive games
asking for trouble?

Probably. Video cards become obsolete at an astonishing pace when you're talking about gaming, let alone the potential quality problems with a budget-focused manufacturer. Tom's Hardware has a useful tool for comparing cards: http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/graphics-cards/3dmark06-v1-0-2-hdr-sm3-0-score,538.html

HTH,
Adam

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