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Video Card Upgrade

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craigmp

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I was looking to upgrade my video card to a Saphire Radeon X800XL. I was wondering if this card would be overkill for my current system and would this system be able to use it to is full potential? Also what is the difference between the OEM and Retail versions on Newegg other than the price? Any other card recommendations? thanks

System Specs:
Abit NF7-S v2
AMD Athlon XP 3200
1024MB Mushkin PC3200
2 X 30 GB Western Digital Raptors
Radeon 9800 Pro
 
Sounds like a good match to me. XP3200 is still a decent system and should drive that x800xl just fine with a noticeable increase fron the 9800 Pro. OEM usually means just the card in a white box with no driver disks or cables or games or demo's or nuthin. If you don't care about that stuff then OEM is fine and of course you know you can get the drivers right off of ATI's website. Only OEM stuff I ever buy is drives. Cpu's and vidcards I've always bought retail package.
Only other possible suggestion would be 6800GT. With either of the cards mentioned, I would be curious about your power supply.
 
That should be plenty.
Just pick whichever is cheaper between x800xl and 6800GT.
 
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