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Good video card for a 250 watt power supply

Discussion in 'Audio and Video' started by bobgreen5s, Jan 28, 2006.

  1. bobgreen5s Newcomer, in training Posts: 42

  2. wkozey Newcomer, in training Posts: 21

    I have owned jetway motherboards and videocards products in the past and was a little dissapointed with them.
    The mother board failed in the first year due to capacitors on the board blowing and the video card from brand new did not work.
    Even though it was replaced under warranty it still took three weeks before I have a video card.
    I bought a SAPPHIRE ATLANTIS RADEON 9600XT at NCIX and have had no issues with it and am quite pleased with the product.
    Using the modified Omega Catalyst drives and not overclocking the card I have noticed better performance.
    These drivers offer exellent performance versus great image quality and are known by their great reputation. These are "optimized" drivers for the ATI Radeon family.
    The Sapphire would be my personal choice and I am not saying that it is better as I have been disapointed with jetway products in the past, they may have gotten better or maybe I was unlucky with two diffrent products from the same manufature.
    But in the end the decesion is all yours to make. :)
  3. wirm Newcomer, in training Posts: 91

    My parents use a Dell 4600 with similar configuration to yours. I brought the ram up to 768, and put in a 9600xt. I’ve never played BF2 on a really good computer, so I don’t know how it’s “supposed” to run. However, it seems to run just fine in that computer. No problems with the power supply either.