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Originally Posted by P-Naughty
Video cards don't come in watts. Only power supplies. Your stock power supply should be capable of handling a "budget" card with no problem. Just make sure your motherboard has an 8x AGP slot and your power supply has a free connector. Most nVidia cards use the standard 4-pin molex connector you see use on hard drives and optical drives.
As for a card, if you want WoW or anything else you are playing to "look pretty", shoot for a nVidia 6600GT. Its reasonably these days as a budget card and should be upgrade-proof for atleast another three or four years. I used to recommend the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro as a budget card. However, given the prices you can find the 6600 GT going for online, the price/performance ratio of the 9800 Pro blows when compared to that of the 6600 GT.
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Thanks! Yesterday I browsed tigerdirect and purchased this card:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...?Sku=P450-6600
It's an XFX GeForce 6600. How similar is it to the 6600 GT? Unfortunately I didn't see your recommendation before I made the purchase, and I notice the GT is $25 more. I notice one difference is the PCI Express (whatever that is). I'm not sure what the performance difference will be, though.
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Originally Posted by Zeraph
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