Help Me With D Grraaaaaphics Card

[Arun the Gr8]

my comp config is:

AMD Athlon 64 3000+
MSI RS482M2-IL Motherboard
512 MB DDR 400 MHz RAM
80 GB SATA 7200 RPM HDD

I want 2 upgrade my pc so that i can run windows vista and the new directx 10 based games.

I have decided to go for an additional 1 GB of RAM and a graphics card based on the upcoming nVidid 9500 DX 10.1 card from nVidia. i have time till feb 2008.

wht my query is that will my CPU & RAM bottleneck my GPU; bcoz they r 2 yrs old. should i buy a lower end card to get d best. it is now a days written in Digit dat now a days all d graphics work is routed 2 d GPU n d CPU has lttle work 2 do. is it true???

[Choto Cheeta]

May be you have missed this one

Graphics Cards related queries here.

the sticky is there to address all GRFX card related question

[j1n M@tt]

yeah, its ture u don't have to worry much about ur CPU.....

who told u nVidia is going to have DX 10.1 cards???

Its ATi coming up with DX 10.1

tell whats ur budget? so dat a G card can be suggested

[assasin]

ur proccy is surely going to be a bottleneck.since ur going to wait till Feb for the 9xxx series cards better upgrade ur proccy to C2D or something like that now.

[Arun the Gr8]

well if i don't want 2 upgrade my mobo n processor bcoz i need d upgrade 4 a short term... then wht shouldi go 4... my budget is around $150... yeah, i will get it imported ... by an uncle of mine.. they r very cheap out there...

[Pathik]

in 150$ u ll only get the 8600gt or maybe the ati hd 3800+

[dOm1naTOr]

Yup, u can get HD 3850 for 150$ from newegg

[Arun the Gr8]

i actually want it just 4 d while so wht i m askin is dat if i buy an ati 3850 (i know dat it 2o is dx 10.1 based) will it work with my cpu without being bottlenecked

i also wanted 2 know dat since my processor is amd based, my mobo chipset is amd/ati based... so wil it give me any performance gain 2 buy an ati gpu??

[Tech_Wiz]

Cant say about that but nVidia Chipsets + nVidia Gfx perform better with each other.

[dOm1naTOr]

@Arun the Gr8
yup, ATI cards with ATI chipset worx gr8.
There are some xtra features like, u can use the onboard DVI/D sub also alomg with those in card. This time display is controlled by card. And many more.

[Arun the Gr8]

Originally Posted by aravind_n20

@Arun the Gr8
yup, ATI cards with ATI chipset worx gr8.
There are some xtra features like, u can use the onboard DVI/D sub also alomg with those in card. This time display is controlled by card. And many more.

r u talkin' abt dat multiple monitor thing??

[dOm1naTOr]

yup. And there is aslo some extra motherboard chipset compatible modes.

[Arun the Gr8]

Originally Posted by aravind_n20

yup. And there is aslo some extra motherboard chipset compatible modes.

What kind of... gimme som egs..

[dOm1naTOr]

In riva tuner, u can enable mobo chipset compatibility mode. It reduces crashes due to overclocking d also boasts of performance boost