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[Big Head Dom and His Monsters]

What would give me the most bang for my buck?  I have AMD Athlon II X2 215 Dual Processor, 3GB Mem, 500GB Hard Drive, NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE

[Gorath Alpha]

Its name is the Radeon HD 4670.  Toms hardware and I are in agreement. 

www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-graphics-card,2521-2.html

You may safely ignore the youithful enthusiasm of the misguided Geforce fanboys.  The closest thin8 is a card not that easy to find for the Toms Hardware price, the 9600 GSO.

Gorath
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Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 15 janvier 2010 - 07:15 .

[Big Head Dom and His Monsters]

Do you think that would do the trick, or do you think other things need upgraded as well?

[Gorath Alpha]

You provided too little information to go on. I have a system here by my shoulder that has a two year old motherboard that still has the s939 socket, and an X2 4600 CPU, which means DDR(1) memory. IMO, given the change to DDR2 for AMD at about a year before I built the PC, and the better (DDR2) RAM prices by comparison, raising this one from 2 GBs to 3 GBs of RAM is a poor value.

There never was an s939 CPU any faster than the 4800, and it has been EoL'd about two years, so it is a poor value, if I can even find one at what are now essentially collectors' prices. Only the video bus is up to date, and I have an HD 3850 in it now.

Personally, I don't think my X2 4600 can keep up with much of anything newer (and faster) than what it has now. (It is the backup game box, not the primary one.)

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Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 15 janvier 2010 - 04:15 .

[ZootCadillac]

Gorath Alpha wrote...

Its name is the Radeon HD 4670.

Why do you keep pushing this low/mid range card? It peforms worse than a 9600GT on most game benchmarks  (in fact all I've seen except Crysis) and you can get a massive improvement in performance from a 9800GT for $10-$20 more.

It's just not a sensible solution.

However for the OP the fact that you need a graphics card is not in question, though I'd not recommend anything without knowing your max budget ( and if you are buying in the UK or US because we don't have the rebate system in the UK and frankly I don't understand it )

Your processor is also the slowest of all the AMD range as of October last year.

[Big Head Dom and His Monsters]

I was hoping to drop anywhere between $100-150

[ZootCadillac]

at the low end of your budget you are looking at an ATI HD5670, Nvidia 9800GT or Nvidia GT240.
Mid range looking at An ATI HD4850/60 or 5750 or Nvidia GTS250
High end of your budget is the HD5770 or a GTS250 with 1gb ram.

If course, as I said, I don't understand your rebate system so you may stretch to a GTX260 with that.

Hope that helps.

Modifié par ZootCadillac, 15 janvier 2010 - 04:57 .