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Nea Paulino
Registered User
Join date: 4 Sep 2008
Posts: 5
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12-11-2008 21:25
My computer crashed and I need to buy a new graphics card now. I don't want to spend over 100. on this. and I dont want to buy one that turns out to be bad for SL. I'm lost with this  I found two good deals but I need to know if they are good graphic cards for SL or if they are terrible ones with problems!! nVidia GeForce 8500GT 8500 GT 1024MB 1GB DDR2 PCI-E 16X 128bit Video Card VGA/DVI/CRT/TV-out HIS H925H256RPN-R Radeon 9250 256MB (128bit) DDR PCI DVI & TV I have windows xp and just bought a new hardrive. A western dig WD Caviar 16E 500 sata Would you know if either of these are good for SL? ...thanks Nea  |
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Peggy Paperdoll
A Brat
Join date: 15 Apr 2006
Posts: 4,383
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12-11-2008 21:40
Get the nVidia card. I had that ATI 9250 a couple years ago and it worked on SL but was loosing ground quite rapidly as SL introduced more features. It might work still but I'm sure it would be struggling very badly.
The nVidia 8000 series has a pretty good record of playing nicely with SL.
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Milla Janick
Empress Of The Universe
Join date: 2 Jan 2008
Posts: 3,075
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12-11-2008 21:49
What Peggy said. Between those two, the Nvidia. The ATI will suck, bad.
You can buy an Nvidia 8600GT for less than $50, and it will serve you well for SL.
You can just sneak a 512MB Nvidia 8800GT or 9800GT in at your $100 budget. Those things are made out of awesome, and are smokin' fast.
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Boy Lane
Evil Dolly
Join date: 8 May 2007
Posts: 690
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12-12-2008 00:57
Get an Nvidia 8600, not 8500 (!). It works perfectly fine with Secondlife. Everything else is a waste of money if you don't play the newest games. Important, use driver version 175.19 (not newer) or you run in texture loading problems.
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Nea Paulino
Registered User
Join date: 4 Sep 2008
Posts: 5
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Thanks guys
12-28-2008 10:49
Just a quick note to thank you guys for help with my video card problems. I really appreciate it as I've had some bad advice in the past. Thanks again ))) Nea |
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Chosen Few
Alpha Channel Slave
Join date: 16 Jan 2004
Posts: 7,496
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12-28-2008 13:32
If you can up your budget $15, this would be my pick: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133205$115 for a 512MB GeForce 8800 is a heck of a deal.
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Argent Stonecutter
Emergency Mustelid
Join date: 20 Sep 2005
Posts: 20,263
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12-28-2008 14:10
Someone's selling a radeon 9200 PCI (not PCI-E)?  The first question is: what kind of video slot does your computer have? The options are: PCI-E (best) AGP PCI (worst) If your video card is plain PCI you will not be happy no matter what. |
