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Old 19-10-2009, 02:22 AM
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Re: Upgrading Video Card Help!

Yea but those look like 2 DVIs I have one Vga going into my card and another VGA On a VGA-DVI converter going into the DVI one on my card. Those look like two dvi's. ( Disregard I see that it comes with two converters anyways. )

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Old 19-10-2009, 02:24 AM
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I should really check the picture that says whats all included before posting. So this thing will run high end games? The only game I am really looking to be playing is D3 which isnt all that high graphics need but just wandering how far will this go in games? Excuse the dumb question just want to make sure on everything this has most recent ver. of shader right?

And on a side not please excuse my earlier post a couple days ago. I think I might have edited it before anyone saw but anyways I was being an ass. You've been so much help, I really don't know what I would have done without you

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Re: Upgrading Video Card Help!

They say that card will run under 300 watts and requires no auxiliary power.

Under your circumstances, without upgrading your PSU, that is about the best card you can get.

Good price too.

Here are other reviews:

EVGA 01G-P3-N945-LR GeForce 9400 GT 1GB 128-bit GDDR2 PCI Express 2.0 x16 - Google Search
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Here is the EVGA page:

EVGA | Products
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·Digital Vibrance Control™ (DVC) Technology
·NVIDIA® SLI™ Technology
·NVIDIA® GigaThread™ Technology
·Full Microsoft® DirectX® 10 Shader Model 4.0 Support
·True 128-Bit Floating Point High Dynamic-Range (HDR)
·PCI Express® 1.1 Support
·NVIDIA® CUDA™ Support
·NVIDIA® PhysX™ Ready
·NVIDIA® PureVideo™ HD Technology
·OpenGL® 3.0 Support
·Unified Shader Architecture
·NVIDIA® Lumenex™ Engine

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So is this the best I can get I'm looking at some reviews on it and there not great. The card itself is good but I want something that can handle better, is this really the only thing my crappy power supply will offer? I just wish some people put it what games they played with it. So far all I've seen is WoW with medium settings even though I can run WoW now with low settings and my video card is baaaaad, it just doesn't add up to me.

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Re: Upgrading Video Card Help!

For a more powerful card you need PCI_E 6 pin leads and 500 watts.

These cards will be a bit more as well @ $100 and the PSU would run @ $100 more e.g.

Newegg.com - Thermaltake TR2 RX W0134RU 550W ATX12V Ver2.2 SLI Ready Modular Passive PFC PFC Power Supply - Power Supplies


We can look at other cards to fit your current hardware but I doubt we will find much better then that EVGA model.

It is actually quite powerful considering its limitations.
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You said something about no auxiliary power right? Can I use that to get a higher wattage.
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You said something about no auxiliary power right? Can I use that to get a higher wattage.
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Re: Upgrading Video Card Help!

What I meant by "auxiliary power" is that most upper end graphics cards require PCI_E 6 or 8 pin leads from the PSU.

Some require multiple combinations.

In general only a PSU rated @ 500 watts or more will have these leads.

Again if I get the time I will look further but I still see that EVGA card as about the best your current PSU can handle.
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