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Seems like my 9800gt crapped out ( 1 long 2 short beeps) and to be honest with you it was holding up ok being that I haven't played any games lately. But now that I have no choice but to get another video card, I figured I would try to make a sensible purchase that would keep my rare tendency to play new video games as an option yet not make me feel like I spend too much on something that hardly gets used.

So I would say anything around the neighborhood of 150-225 bucks would be my aim. For nearly 10 years now I've been a happy NVidia camper and I would like to keep it that way becaue I trust their products' solid performance and compatibility. However, and correct me if I'm wrong, it seems that Radeon has been notching up the competition lately, so I wouldn't mind jumping ship if it's well worth it.

so any recommendations / reviews / benchmarks would be appreciated.

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fyi, the rest of my system seems to still be holding up with what's out there:

GIGABYTE GA-MA785GMT-UD2H AM3 AMD 785G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813128397

AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Deneb 3.2GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor HDZ955FBGIBOX

G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-4GBNQ ( should I get an extra 4gigs or ram? or is this enough for even new game releases?)

OCZ ModXStream Pro OCZ600MXSP 600W ATX12V V2.2 / EPS12V SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Modular Active PFC ...

Check out this article...

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gam ... ,2782.html

nice

for those who are curious, I have decided on:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814127510

Nice, I got the n470 that comes with the Twin Frozr II cooler. MSI is solid

do you know of any good dx11 demos floating around?

Is this what you meant?

As far as games go; Dirt 2, F1 2010, and Battlefield Bad Company 2 look very pretty in DX11.

yes that's what I mean, but also i might be picking up that f1 2010, i didn't know it was dx11 , that's interesting

so i got my new v-card in today. I put it in, I power on, I run that dx11 demo for about 10 min, and all of a sudden my pc shuts down. Tried to turn it on but the system wont power up at all, as if it is unplugged. I remove the video card (which requires 2x6 pin power connectors) and the system powers up just fine.

So wtf. did my power supply or mobo decide all of a sudden that it can't push the vcard ? could the vcard had fried? it should still power up if it did yes/no?

what type of PSU u got?

it prolly not supplying enough juice

also check that the fan cable on the GPU isnt blocking the fan

this is the one I bought a year ago:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6817341017

surely it's not high end, but it specifically came with 2 pci-e connectors ... I figured it could handle just one modern card
and being that I'm sure, not sure though about the issue I'm going to be forced to buy locally

update: so I get a new power supply I plug it all in ,I power it up, and there are flames and smoke coming out of the video card ...now it has a burned component at the bottom rear...fuck my life

yikes, that sucks bro

RMA that fucker and read the user comments on the page where u bought the card.

yeah RMA'd right after my post...
there are some negative comments but the number of reviews and score overall say it's a good card

kind of off topic, but i was researching gpu coolers... whats good for a nvidia gtx 275?

the zalman 3F3000N looks the most promising, but what do you guys think?

r u gonna OC ?

if not then stock cooler will suffice.