June 21st, 2008 |
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nVidia’s GTX 200 Series Graphics Card Benchmarks!
Most definitely, nVidia’s new line of graphics card can sum up the greatest graphics card ever to be made (yet). nVidia always WOWs us and blows are minds away every time they introduce a new line of graphics cards. In it’s history, the greatest performance increase from it’s family are (argubly) from 7 series –> 8 series. This week, it can finally add another huge performance increase to it’s family. From 9 series –> GTX 200 series.
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June 21st, 2008 |
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Electronics, Gaming, Graphics, How To's, Sweet Deals, Technology
Sub $500 dollar gaming computer.
This configuration is for people who don’t have the cold hard cash to buy a $2k+ computer or for those who like to do some casual gaming while having the horsepower to do their workstation work. I present to you, my friends, [laatedaa]?’s $400 dollar build. It works great and fine as I just built one myself for a friend and it runs modern games without a hitch. Also it is “future-proof” meaning that you can always upgrade when these parts go haywire. I took many things into consideration when looking for these products and what goes with what. I found out that this combination of products works best.
In the beginning, I was debating whether or not to use AMD w/ ATi, AMD w/ nVidia, Intel w/ nVidia, or Intel w/ ATi. I found out the most cost-effective, or as many of you guys like to call it, BANG for the buck, I went with an Intel / nVidia path. It worked out fine as Intel’s processors do a strong doing while nVidia’s high end cards are not very pricey, although this particular model is almost half of the $400.
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