It will also depend if i can find the 700 series in my country, if i found a 500 or 600 gtx series would that be good too ?
]]>As far as ATI cards go, bigger numbers = better. The first number is the card generation, "5" is the current generation, however a high end 4th generation card will beat a low end 5th generation card at some games. The 5770 is ATI's current mid-range card. Cards with higher numbers are high end cards, cards with lower numbers are low end cards.
NVIDIA Geforce is the same as just NVIDIA. NVIDIA cards which start with a "9" are the previous generation. New NVIDIA cards only have three numbers instead of four, so you'd probably be better off with a GTS250 instead of a 9500 if you decided to choose NVIDIA. NVIDIA's mid-range card would probably be the GTX260. As with before, anything with a higher number (except the 9xxx series) is a high end card, anything with a lower number is a low end card.
Intel graphics is not designed with games in mind, it is only designed for lightweight activities like web browsing. If you stick with your Intel "card", your computer will struggle with most modern games. Even a cheap NVIDIA/ATI card is better than what came with your computer.
EDIT: Do you plan on installing the card yourself or getting someone else to install it?
]]>What I meant was 100 - 500, like a 8600 is much better than e.g a 9500.
Go to www.tomshardware.com, for charts on what card you should be getting.
One other thing that's importnant is the amount of money you want to spend.
Isn't a 9500 better than 6000 or 8000 or 9000 ? since 9500 has a higher number, version is supposedly newer
]]>I'm going to school now, but maybe I can assist you more when I get more.
]]>Here are it's specs :
*Intel CPU quad core @ 2.93 GHz
*4 GB RAM
(running Windows 7)
Now, for the video card, VGA , the PC came with :
Intel Graphics Media accelerator HD (Core i3) with Graphics Memory : 1042 MB
I was planning to get Nvidia 9500 with 1 GB graphics memory
which one is better the Nvidia or should I stick with the Intel video chip ?
I don't know much about this :S
so I was hoping any of you with more experience in video games and video cards can guide me in the right direction ... what's the criteria I should consider ? what more info should I know about each card, and which one do you recommend ?
I want the video card to be able to play various games including new ones ...
I've noticed that Intel chip doesn't have anti-aliasing
and for example Assassin's Creed Game ran a bit slowly on it ...
also is NVIDIA Geforce the same as just NVIDIA?
if anyone can help me with this I'd really appreciate it, I've spent hours researching on the internet about it, but I couldn't understand :S there were a lot of details that I found confusing :$
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