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Time for an upgrade... maybe...

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viets7ylez

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Hello,

I haven't been much of a gamer but decided I might want to pick it up... I've thought about getting an Xbox 360 but most of the games I want aren't exclusives and are on the PC... like Mass Effect 2 and such so I think I might just pick up an Xbox controller to use on the PC and upgrade my video card.

When I game I'll be using the 42'' plasma connected to my PC and that runs at 1920x1080 so I just want a card that can handle that resolution with everything maxed... which shouldn't be too hard since that is a low resolution relative to what I see on here.

I don't really have a budget for the card.

My PC is:

i7 920 @ 3.7
9800GTX video card right now
6 GB of ram.. everything else is irrelevant...

Thanks!
 
Everything else is not irrelevant. We'd need to know if you have a tiny case that doesn't fit large cards. We'd need to know if you have a terrible PSU that would need upgrading, et.
At 1080p a single HD6950 should be enough for most games, and that will fit in most decent midi-towers, and run off a good 450W PSU if it has two connectors.
 
Yeah you should be fine with an HD6950 then, or if you want a bit of extra grunt at the cost of a bit of complexity, go with two HD6850s.
The HD6950 is $300, and is about 2.5x as powerful as your 9800. It uses two 6-pin connectors.
Two HD6850s are $360, and will be typically 4x as powerful as your 9800. They also only require two 6-pin connectors between them, and they are shorter cards. All LGA1366 ATX systems I believe have at least two PCIe 16x slots, so they should definitely fit in your board, and they'll definitely fit in your case.
The HD6950 uses about 170W, the pair of HD6850s will use about 250W. [Under load of course]

If you're not really a gamer I'd probably suggest the single HD6950 route, it will probably take care of everything fine at 1080p.
 
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