Video card for gaming and graphics design

[shee]

Hi! I'm into gaming and graphic designing but the video card on my pc is just stock SiS 651CRev00 it has only 32MB of memory... I need suggestions and recommendations to what kind and brand of video card i will buy for my pc...

[roi]

This Video Card maybe suitable to you.

Geforce 7600 GT
G73, 90 nm technology
12 Pixel shaders, Five Vertex shaders, 12 Texture units, eight Raster operations processors
128 bit memory bus
560 MHz core, 700 MHz DDR (1400 MHz Effective) Memory

The 7600 GT is an amazing card in this price range, sporting new SM 3.0 technology and very high clock speeds to deliver excellent performance. Its weakest feature is its 128 bit memory bus, but its high memory speeds offset that disadvantage and make it competitive with 256 bit cards like the X800 XT/X850 XT.

[chelle]

I would recommend

AX4850 512MD3-H


Graphics Engine RADEON HD4850
Video Memory 512MB GDDR3
Engine Clock 625MHz
Memory Clock 993MHz(1986Mbps)
Memory Interface 256bit
DirectX Support 10.1
Bus Standard PCIE 2.0

features:

* 956 million transistors on 55nm fabrication process
* PCI Express 2.0 x16 bus interface
* 256-bit GDDR3
* MicrosoftR DirectXR 10.1 support
o ShaderModel 4.1
o 32-bit floating point texture filtering
o Indexed cube map arrays
o Independent blend modes per render target
o Pixel coverage sample masking
o Read/write multi-sample surfaces with shaders
o Gather4 texture fetching
* Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture
o 800 stream processing units
+ Dynamic load balancing and resource allocation for vertex, geometry, and pixel shaders
+ Common instruction set and texture unit access supported for all types of shaders
+ Dedicated branch execution units and texture address processors
* Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture
o 320 stream processing units
+ Dynamic load balancing and resource allocation for vertex, geometry, and pixel shaders
+ Common instruction set and texture unit access supported for all types of shaders
+ Dedicated branch execution units and texture address processors
o 128-bit floating point precision for all operations
o Command processor for reduced CPU overhead
o Shader instruction and constant caches
o Up to 160 texture fetches per clock cycle
o Up to 128 textures per pixel
o Fully associative multi-level texture cache design
o DXTC and 3Dc+ texture compression
o High resolution texture support (up to 8192 x 8192)
o Fully associative texture Z/stencil cache designs
o Double-sided hierarchical Z/stencil buffer
o Early Z test, Re-Z, Z Range optimization, and Fast Z Clear
o Lossless Z & stencil compression (up to 128:1)
o Lossless color compression (up to 8:1)
o 8 render targets (MRTs) with anti-aliasing support
o Accelerated physics processing * Dynamic Geometry Acceleration
o High performance vertex cache
o Programmable tessellation unit
o Accelerated geometry shaderpath for geometry amplification
o Memory read/write cache for improved stream output performance
* Anti-aliasing features
o Multi-sample anti-aliasing (2, 4, or 8 samples per pixel)
o Up to 24x Custom Filter Anti-Aliasing (CFAA) for improved quality
o Adaptive super-sampling and multi-sampling
o Gamma correct
o Super AA (ATI CrossFireXTMconfigurations only)
o All anti-aliasing features compatible with HDR renderin
* Texture filtering features
o 2x/4x/8x/16x high quality adaptive anisotropic filtering modes (up to 128 taps per pixel)
o 128-bit floating point HDR texture filtering
o sRGB filtering (gamma/degamma)
o Percentage Closer Filtering (PCF)
o Depth & stencil texture (DST) format support
o Shared exponent HDR (RGBE 9:9:9:5) texture format support * OpenGL 2.0 support
* ATI AvivoTM HD Video and Display Platform6
o Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD 2) for H.264/AVC, VC-1, and MPEG-2 video formats
+ High definition (HD) playback of Blu-ray and HD DVD video
+ Dual stream (HD+SD) playback support
+ DirectX Video Acceleration 1.0 & 2.0 support
+ Support for BD-Live certified applications
o Hardware DivXand MPEG-1 video decode acceleration
o Accelerated video transcoding& encoding for H.264 and MPEG-2 formats
o AIT AvivoVideo Post Processor6
+ Color space conversion
+ Chroma subsampling format conversion
+ Horizontal and vertical scaling
+ Gamma correction
+ Advanced vector adaptive per-pixel de-interlacing
+ De-blocking and noise reduction filtering
+ Detail enhancement
+ Color vibrance and flesh tone correction
+ Inverse telecine (2:2 and 3:2 pull-down correction)
+ Bad edit correction
+ Enhanced DVD upscaling (SD to HD)
+ Automatic dynamic contrast adjustment
o Two independent display controllers
+ Drive two displays simultaneously with independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls and video overlays for each display
+ Full 30-bit display processing
+ Programmable piecewise linear gamma correction, color correction, and color space conversion
+ Spatial/temporal dithering provides 30-bit color quality on 24-bit and 18-bit displays
+ High quality pre- and post-scaling engines, with underscan support for all display outputs
+ Content-adaptive de-flicker filtering for interlaced displays
+ Fast, glitch-free mode switching
+ Hardware cursor
o Two integrated dual-link DVI display outputs
+ Each supports 18-, 24-, and 30-bit digital displays at all resolutions up to 1920x1200 (single-link DVI) or 2560x1600 (dual-link DVI)2
+ Each includes a dual-link HDCP encoder with on-chip key storage for high resolution playback of protected content3
o Two integrated 400 MHz 30-bit RAMDACs
+ Each supports analog displays connected by VGA at all resolutions up to 2048x15362
o DisplayPortoutput support
+ 24- and 30-bit displays at all resolutions up to 2560x16002
o HDMI output support
+ All display resolutions up to 1920x10802
+ Integrated HD audio controller with support for stereo and multi-channel (up to 7.1) audio formats, including AC-3, AAC, DTS, DTS-HD & Dolby True- HD4, enabling a plug-and-play audio solution over HDMI
o Integrated AMD XilleonTM HDTV encoder
+ Provides high quality analog TV output (component/S- video/composite)
+ Supports SDTV and HDTV resolutions
+ Underscan and overscan compensation
o Seamless integration of pixel shaderswith video in real time
o VGA mode support on all display outputs
* ATI PowerPlayTM Technology5
o Advanced power management technology for optimal performance and power savings
o Performance-on-Demand
+ Constantly monitors GPU activity, dynamically adjusting clocks and voltage based on user scenario
+ Clock and memory speed throttling
+ Voltage switching
+ Dynamic clock gating
+ Central thermal management – on-chip sensor monitors GPU temperature and triggers thermal actions as required
* ATI CrossFireXTM Multi-GPU Technology
o Scale up rendering performance and image quality with two, three, or four GPUs
o Integrated compositing engine
o High performance dual channel bridge interconnect1

1. Dual channel interconnect is not required for CrossFireX, and may not be included in all product configurations.
2. Some custom resolutions require user configuration.
3. Playing HDCP content requires additional HDCP ready components, including but not limited to an HDCP ready monitor, Blu-ray or HD DVD disc drive, multimedia application and computer operating system.
4. Subject to digital rights management limitations; maximum supported audio stream bandwidth is 6.144 Mbps.
5. ATI PowerPlay TM technology consists of numerous power saving features. Not all features may be available in all ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series graphics cards.
6. ATI AvivoTM HD is a technology platform that includes a broad set of capabilities offered by certain ATI RadeonTM HD GPUs. Not all products have all features and full enablement of some ATI AvivoTM HD capabilities may require complementary products.

[Dizzy]

I have here a few good graphic cards. You might want to check them out.

Sapphire ATI RADEON HD 3850
http://www.testfreaks.com/graphics-c...eontm-hd-3850/


Asus EN8800GT/HTDP/1G
http://www.testfreaks.com/graphics-c...800gt-htdp-1g/


Gigabyte GV-NX88T512HP
http://www.testfreaks.com/graphics-c...gv-nx88t512hp/


MSI NX7900GS-T2D256EZ
http://www.testfreaks.com/graphics-c...00gs-t2d256ez/