Monday, May 7, 2012

What is the best Video Card for these specs?

PCI Express X16

DDR2 Memory (Preferably over 256MB)

And it needs to have a good rating.



I have been looking for a good video card but it's becoming difficult to find DDR2 cards as GDDR3 has taken over and now GDDR5 as well. I'm not an extreme FPS gamer (not going to be running any COD or Crysis)

I just need a video card that can handle games like Star Wars EAW, Age Of Empires, etc.

Thanks!|||If you're in Canada:

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/S…

If you're in the U.S.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/…



It's not much, but they will play those games. What's your price range?

There are better ones, but this was the cheapest.|||You can use any type of memory when it comes to video cards.

Just because your motherboard supports DDR2 doesn't mean that can't use a video card that has GDDR3 or GDDR5. That only applies to system RAM.



You can use any video card, as long as it's the correct cardbus. In your case, the correct card bus would be PCI Express x16. Just make sure the card will actually fit into your computer. Some video cards are fairly large and won't physically fit into a "slim" computer.|||>DDR2 cards as GDDR3



Your computer's SDRAM memory has nothing to do with what kind of memory your video card uses.



In other words, just pick any PCIE 16x video card. Doesn't matter what RAM you're currently using.



There are lots of video cards in different price ranges to choose from. Generally I like to link video cards with the size of your monitor -- the bigger the monitor, the better the card you should get.



If under 20 inches you'd be looking at spending $120-150 on a decent card like Radeon 4850, Radeon 4870 or Geforce 9600 GT or 9800 GTX.



If over 20 inches, spend about $160-190 on a GTX 260, Radeon 4890 etc



For what you're playing, I would say a card such as the 9800 GT or Radeon 4850 should be enough to handle your games without any hitches.|||okay, lol why do you want a ddr2 cards, those are like almost all gone. But if you must, go to tigerdirect and get the ati 4650, that is ddr2 and it is like under 50 bucks... if anything i recommend getting GDDR3 or get GDDR5.|||id say a Nvidia 8800GTS its not that old still pretty good FPS with it and cheapish now

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