Going to be grabbing a new vid card

[Spartanx9]

I was curious, since I do plan to get a new video card (my 7300 gs that came with the compy isn't cutting it anymore), in the morning when best buy opens up, anyone have any experience with an NVidia Geforce 9500 GT?

Best buy lists at $150, and to be honest, since I've been out of the whole tech loop, sounds like a good deal. I've stuck with NVidia for pretty much all my life and haven't had any problems with it. My PC is pretty well built and can handle the card no problem, but I would like some outside sources about the card on how it preforms.

I'm do some moderate gaming, not the high end stuff that comes out each year. I just want an upgrade that would handle most current mid end to mid-high end games in case if I spot something that looks good.

Only problem that I see is that I won't be able to utilize the max resolution of 2560 x 1600 on it, but 1680x1050 that I'm running (beautiful widescreen monitor <3 ) should fit the bill :P.

Edit: After looking a while, would a 9800 GT do better?

[Lasereth]

9500 GT is a piece of crap.

9800 GT is a good card (basically an 8800 GT with a new name).

If you buy it from Best Buy I would get one of these: XFX - NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 512MB DDR3 PCI Express Graphics Card - PVT96GYHF4

VisionTek ATI RADEON HD4850 Graphics Card & $10 Gift Card (best deal at the store right now)

[Plaid13]

I recently bought a 8800gt 512mb card from newegg.com for around $130 after a mail in rebate. Something like the 8800gt or 9800gt would be a much better deal and you would be a lot happier with the performance.

[botabota]

9500GT is totally not for gaming at all D:
enough said above 9800GT = way to go
8800GT is also very reliable

[Redjake]

Lasereth knows all - follow his advice and you will find that of which you speak

[Vigilante]

I have a 8800GT from when they were not even on the shelves yet, and it's been a great card. It's old tech now, but still an awesome card.

I would look at newegg over bestbuy to see if you can get a better price (and a better model, no limits on what you can buy there). This is the section you want: Newegg.com - Video Cards, NVIDIA Video Card, ATI Video Cards, AGP Video Cards, GeForce Video Card, Radeon Video Card

Find the budget range you want, then the card you want within that budget. If I were you, I would then push up to the next bracket and get a card from that range. Slightly over budget, but damn good hardware.

I am an evga fan because of the warranty and the step-up program. Never used it, but I like it anyways. I would get this card, specifically, unless you can go higher on the budget, in which case I would go for a newer model Newegg.com - EVGA 512-P3-N871-AR GeForce 9800 GTX(G92) 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Desktop Graphics / Video Cards

[Spartanx9]

9800 GT it is

[crazybobmarley]

Since I'm not all the great with the words and I also don't want to do this much work I again substitute Dan.....

9 Series Explanation

As of now an 8800gt and 9600gt 'should' cost relatively the same, flip a coin it doesn't really matter if that's the case.

It's like you're talking about cars........... reliability