New Graphics Card

[Misteryo]

Today I found an NVidia GeForce 9500GT for $35. This is an amazing change, since I am using my three year old rig that I built for business apps. Until today it was running an NVidia 6100. What I really had fun with was tweaking stuff in order to make games run that really shouldn't. For instance, I could get Bioshock to run at 7 FPS. Unplayable, really, but it ran! I'm just too cheap and broke to spend money on updrading my graphics card for gaming. But $35 was too good to pass up. Tonight I am actually going to play through Bioshock with all the settings on max (except without the DX10). 30FPS and up.

Just sharing because I'm happy.

 

[Unno]

Heh. Good buy. I'm still on N6. One up from your old one.

PS Shit. Wearing an eye-patch really alters depth perception. I edited these 2 rows 8 times.

 

[Eternal]

Grats, hope it helps. I've got an 8800GTS here I need to upgrade and take advantage of my new mobos Crossfire capabilities eventually. But for now I'm content with it (thing can play crysis 1280/1024 all high with a consistant frame rate in the 20+

 

[Rev. Layle]

the 9500 is not bad... it is designed as a low end 9000 series card. even at $35, however, it is a great deal. I usually see them around $50 or so.