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G0rF
04-15-2009, 11:59 AM
They seem ridiculously cheap.

Can anyone see why?

If they're not crap I'll get a couple.

LINKY (http://www.saverstore.com/product/20026142/XFX-GeForce-9500-GT-1024MB-PCI-E-Dual-DVIHDTV-Graphics-Card-PV-T95G-ZAFG)

Midnighter
04-15-2009, 12:13 PM
Low end card from a line that's over 6 months old.

I think it's designed to give solid performance for mainstream users and seems to be quite popular.
Given the price, I'd consider it too if I had the money.

Veube
04-15-2009, 12:49 PM
Only 32 cores, that's why.

G0rF
04-15-2009, 12:50 PM
OK, I just saw it myself.

1GB 800MHz DDR2 on that card.

I'd planned to upgrade to 4GB 1066MHz DDR2 board-RAMat the same time.

Pointless to have GFX RAM slower than board-RAM.

Dragonstorm
04-15-2009, 01:15 PM
Only 32 cores, that's why.

Yah, cores make aaaall the difference in the end! :D

Ackercoke
04-15-2009, 03:24 PM
Yah, cores make aaaall the difference in the end! :D

Nah other wise I'd have an ATI card they seem to just be ramming as many stream processors as possible onto their cards...to comedy levels

i should edit this to say they do make a difference but it is dependant on the GPU's ability to handle it.

Also the card is quite nice If you are making a media centre PC but not for gaming tbh...for gaming nvidia starts at X600 series [low end] but what I normally use
which brings me to the I stil want a GTX260 (http://www.saverstore.com/product/20021495/Asus-GTX260-PCI-Express-20-896Mb-DDR3-448Bit-2-x-DVI-I-DX101-ENGTX260HTDP896M) although I'd want an MSI BFG or XFX one

Dragonstorm
04-15-2009, 03:59 PM
which brings me to the I stil want a GTX260 (http://www.saverstore.com/product/20021495/Asus-GTX260-PCI-Express-20-896Mb-DDR3-448Bit-2-x-DVI-I-DX101-ENGTX260HTDP896M) although I'd want an MSI BFG or XFX one

That's what I've had for a while now, and for the price (~£140 last time i checked) it's absolutely brilliant!