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Looking for the BEST video card for Wow,frycry, and EQ2
gizma99k
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I'm looking for the best $350-$400 video card i can get for the newer games im upgradeing from a radeon 9200 and my dad says i can get it if there is a pretty big diffrence because he doesnt want this one to get outdated in a year so please help me and i use newegg only so please find one on there or help me find one on there thanks!!! 
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http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=14-240-016&depa=1
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=14-150-069&depa=1
Try that
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the 6800 series is the best ive seen, it beats out the x800 because of the price. The x800 may have better benchmarks, but the price is ridiculous.
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Get the nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra. For Everquest II, it is the best. Why? Because it is the only card with Pixel Shader 3.0. Everquest II will eventually support Pixel Shader 3.0 and it will be AWESOME to have a card with PS 3.0 when it does.
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My advice is to go with an NVidia 6800 Ultra. Why? Because that, and the ATI x800 cards are the best ones out right now. But what makes me say NVidia is that I think they are more flexible. They run DX games almost just as well as ATI, but they run OGL much smoother than ATI. Lots of games are OGL and so I think your more safe with the NVidia.
I personally have a Radeon 9600PRO, which in the Stress Test ran WoW perfectly, and I was getting 20-30FPS. I can run FarCry on medium settings perfectly smooth. I went with this lower card because I got a wicked deal on it. The next card I'm getting will be that 6800 Ultra.
I've started to come down off the fanboi podeum myself. However, for gaming I still would choose the Nvidia chipset because the compatibility and drivers are better with Nvidia. They have just been around longer and are thus still the most supported VGA chipset. Both cards will prob perform the same in most areas. ATI might be better in one spot and Nvidia will be better in another spot. With either card your going to see a huge improvement and get a huge boost in your graphics (assuming the rest of your computer is up to par). Remember, just having an uber video card means nothing if you don't have a CPU and the memory to keep up. Again though I would go with whatever the latest Nvidia card is just to have the gaming compatibility.
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Get the nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra. For Everquest II, it is the best. Why? Because it is the only card with Pixel Shader 3.0. Everquest II will eventually support Pixel Shader 3.0 and it will be AWESOME to have a card with PS 3.0 when it does.
Or not... why buy an ultra when you can buy a 6800GT and overclock it to ultra speeds and save $200. And no, the ultra isnt the only card that supports PS3, all 6800 cards do.
the new 256 mb GEFORCE because it has the Pixel shader 2.0
from what I knwo its the only one that had the pixel shader and its good to have for eq2
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Contrary to popular beliefs overclocking the card does not increase it to the speed you overclock it to. All overclocking does is allow the card to run at a higher limit. If you have the money pay for the faster card because your guarunteed to have the speeds listed in the specs.
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play farcry on full specs no prob.
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Played- Runescape, Conquer
Tested- EQ, RYL, Freeworld
I wouldn't say the 9200 is that good. It is fairly old. There would be a huge difference in upgrading from a 9200 to the top of the line card of today. Upgrading from a GeForce 4 Ti 4600 to a Radeon Mobility 9700 was a huge step up as it was. Granted I also upped my cpu, however the graphics card can support much higher details than my 4.
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Personally I would recommend the eVGA 6800 GT as the best power to price value card. I've tested it on Doom3, Far Cry, EQ2, and all of them run amazingly well on it. Personally I run a 6800 Ultra, but the power gain over the GT versus the price gain is something you REALLY have to ask yourself if it's worth it. It's not to most people. And as others have said in previous posts, with the 6800 series you get Pixel Shader 3.0, which none of the ATI cards support yet, and thats a major bonus for the games you listed.
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