What computer components should you select for a high-end gaming computer system?

Option 1 (ATI):
- Silverstone TJ07 Case or Antec 1200 Case or Cooler Master Cosmos Case
- PC Power and Cooling Turbo Cool 1200W PSU
- Intel QX9650 3GHz CPU
- OCZ DDR3-16000 Platinum Edition 4GB Memory Kit
- Swiftech H2O-120 Compact or H2O-220 Compact Water Cooling Kit (For CPU)
- Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Sound Card
- 2 x Western Digital Velociraptor 300GB in RAID 0
- LG Blu-Ray/DVD Burner
- Vista Ultimate 64bit Operating System
- Asus P5E3 Premium Motherboard
- 2 x HIS HD 4870 Video Cards in Crossfire

Option 2 (NVIDIA):
- Silverstone TJ07 Case or Antec 1200 Case or Cooler Master Cosmos Case
- PC Power and Cooling Turbo Cool 1200W PSU
- Intel QX9650 3GHz CPU
- OCZ DDR3-16000 Platinum Edition 4GB Memory Kit
- Swiftech H2O-120 Compact or H2O-220 Compact Water Cooling Kit (For CPU)
- Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Sound Card
- 2 x Western Digital Velociraptor 300GB in RAID 0
- LG Blu-Ray/DVD Burner
- Vista Ultimate 64bit Operating System
- Asus Striker II Extreme Motherboard
- 2 x EVGA GTX280 Video Cards in SLI

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This is a How To on how to remove and install a video card, or graphics card on my intel computer made partly by dell. I hope this helps, by Kyle_vdk.

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Visit http://tiger.tv/more_info/?427 for an excellent GPU SLI solution! Now the award-winning NVIDIA GeForce 8 Series architecture extends to the EVGA GeForce 8600 GTS graphics card. Offering unparalleled levels of graphics realism and performance for Microsoft DirectX 9 and DirectX 10 games for the price point, the EVGA GeForce 8600 GTS graphics card also includes the groundbreaking 2nd generation PureVideo HD processor and full support for Microsoft Windows Vista.

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Is there any real advantage in getting dual video cards instead of one good one with the same amount of VRAM? Why do some of the new computers have 2 cards instead of just one? (Example 2 NVIDIA 512 MB cards or just 1 NVIDIA 1024 card?) Tell me any pros or cons that you are aware of concerning this. (Obviously power consumption is one factor.) Will two cards allow faster processing for game playing or is it the same as one big/good card? The best explanation gets the best answer pick. Thanks for your help.

Dual cards (SLI or Crossfire) produce smoother performance at high resoutions with all the eye-candy turned on. Both cards are used to render the image to a single screen. They are ideal if you play at ultra-high (1600×1200) or widescreen resolutions (1680×1050, 1920×1200). they’re overkill for 17" or smaller screens (1280×1024 res or lower). note that some games show no benefit from a dual card setup. And remember that video card RAM (512 vs 1MB) is not as important as the number of pipelines, stream processors as well as core clock and memory clock speeds on the card.

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My computer is a Gateway 2000 GX7018E model and nowhere in the manual does it say what type of slots I have to use for my graphics card? So please help. If at all possible I would like to hook it up to my LCD Flatscreen t.v. but just really need to know like if it’s just pci or pci express or anything different? Thanx!

you have a pci, pcie x1 (sound) and pcie x16 (video)

you’d want a pci express card..

http://support.gateway.com/s/PC/R/GXModels/5476/5476sp6.shtml

can i buy pci graphics card for my laptop it has integrated intel graphics media accelerator?

You can’t change graphics hardware on a laptop. All you can do is upgrade the RAM, but I doubt it will help much, I’m sure that accelerator has little to NO processing power at all.. So you’re basically pissing in the wind.

Sorry.

I know that i have in it already a Radeon 9200 128 mb
and my computer is a acer veriton 5200
and the cpu is Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.50GHz
I would like to upgrade mine to probably a 512 mb card
Any suggestions on what graphics cards are compatible with my pc?

check what type of slot u have. if its agp, buy any agp card out there but be careful about the power, u might need more power. if its pcie, then buy a pcie card.

Q. What’s the fastest single GPU video card on the market (not X2)?

A. The fastest single GPU (not X2) video card on the market is the NVIDIA GTX 280. AMD has the 4870 which can’t complete with the GTX280, but it’s a very fast video card. Also note that NVIDIA will be reducing the cost of their GTX260 & GTX280 video cards. Watch video to find out more.

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