I plan to make a computer with my dad...

[VP :3]

I'm not sure if this graphics card would work great because I'm a big gamer.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150434

It's a Nvida GeForce 9800 GT 512MB 256-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card. I hope to use this graphic card for the computer I'm going to build with my dad, but I'm not sure if I should get a GTX 260. I mean, for $105, that's pretty good deal.

Or this...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814187026

SPARKLE Calibre Series P980 GeForce 9800 GT OC Dual Fly 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card. Comes with a free Call of Duty: WaW with purchase, too.

 

[Jubei]

Get the 260.

Oh and you said you are going to make a computer with your dad? Two questions: 1)What part(s) of your dad can you use in a PC and 2)Are you going to do the surgery yourself or do you have some help?

 

[VP :3]

Get the 260.

Oh and you said you are going to make a computer with your dad? Two questions: 1)What part(s) of your dad can you use in a PC and 2)Are you going to do the surgery yourself or do you have some help?

Yeah, I figured the GTX 260 would be better.

1): We may order parts off of Newegg and follow a guide online how to make a computer.

2): Lol, I mean I'm going to make a computer with some help from my dad. As in he will help me assemble the computer and put the pieces in the right places.

 

[HaloRacer]

Hey Halo. :wink:

Building a computer is a lot of fun, rewarding, and pretty simple and straightforward. If you need any help, just holler. I've built many computers. :biggrin_old:

 

[Deimos]

Hey Halo. :wink:

Building a computer is a lot of fun, rewarding, and pretty simple and straightforward. If you need any help, just holler. I've built many computers. :biggrin_old:

I had a ton of fun building mine. Also, you learn a lot about computers once you build them yourself

 

[( . Y . )Pola Negri]

Indeed, building your own system is allot of fun. It's amazing how much "card" you get these days for so little money..

 

[VP :3]

Yeah, I might get a GTX 280 off of eBay instead of buying a GTX 260 from newegg. I gan get the GTX 280 from eBay for like, $40 or $80 more.

 

[malalla]

if u are planning to get the 9800 consider looking at the gts250, the gts250 is basically a renamed 9800 but it consumes less power a bit higher clocks and bassicaly a new name, and almost at the same price, but u will get a proformance boost on the 260 it ur call.

 

[VP :3]

Hmm, I wanna get something where I can run all the games I have and will get, like right now, I can't run Transformers; Revenge of The Fallen on any of the computer I have.

 

[WaterSnake]

Building a computer with your dad, just a part of growing up...

It's really fun. It was just over a year ago I built my computer with my dad. I got really into it. 1 weekend a couple months later, I built 3 computers (the parts weren't as advanced as mine, but still...)

Besides being cheaper and the computer having better specs, building a computer familiarizes you with the layout of the "guts" of the computer, allowing you to better diagnose hardware problems when they arise. I can't tell you how beneficial this is.

Way to go Halo!

 

[VP :3]

Yeah, I already now ALOT about computers because my dad is a computer programmer.

 

[chaosassualt]

thats awesome that you dad is a comptuer programer :], i built a computer with my dad and he was a lot of help because he used to built computers

 

[VP :3]

Yeah, my dad's been doing computers since he quit ATT.

 

[VP :3]

And we have an old computer. We'll probably take parts out and replace them with new parts. And if we can't do it by Christmas, then for Christmas I would want a Dell computer with a Nvida GTX 295 graphics card, with dual core processors. And have an HDD thing in it. That way, I have the perfect gaming rig for me.

 

[WaterSnake]

Yeah, I already now ALOT about computers because my dad is a computer programmer.

Same here!

:thumbup:

 

[yellowbadger52]

What size moniter do you have? What resolution does it run at. If you only play at lower resolutions, i would say the first 9800gt would be ok. The second one may be better for higher resolutions of 1680x1050 but for anything more than that youll want to pick up a videocard with more than 512mb of vram on it.

I would reccomend the 260 or if you wanna try ati, 4870s are really solid cards as well, if you can afford it go with a 4890 or gtx 275 though. they faster cards. Best luck building your rig.
If you have any questions feel free to pm me. Ill do what i can to help out.