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Old 12-11-2003, 12:13 PM   #1
RitingFool
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Join Date: June 6, 2001
Location: Irvine, CA USA
Age: 61
Posts: 121
I'm looking to upgrade my video card, but money is at a premium right now.

My system specs currently are:

P4 2.4 GHz, 512MB RAM
64MB ATI Radeon 8500LE
Audigy Gamer
Win XP Home

I prefer ATI cards because I've had good experiences with those, and they have served me well. I saw that Best Buy has the 9600SE (128MB) card for $120.00. What is the version of ATI cards that you have to start hooking them up to your power supply? I would rather NOT have to do that, because fiddling with hardware isn't my forte. Are there big differences in the various versions of the 9600? As long as the SE will run games that take advantage of Direct X 9.0, that's all I really care about right now. I'm assuming my system can handle the top of the line card (9800) if I choose to go that way in the future.

Thanks for any assistance!

Regards,
Michael
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