Graphics card : Help me choose new?

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Graphics card : Help me choose new?

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Im looking for something that has alot of memory, and can handle some badass graphics. Is there anything that is reccomended at a fairly low price?
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Ati radeon hd 5770 :)

Costs around 140 euro's tho, seeing as im from european region.
I've got em in crossfire, works super smooth..

Hope this helped :mrgreen:
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I recommend getting the best NVidia card you can afford. You might lose a benchmark by a couple percent vs. the ATI cards but at least your drivers will work.
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I'm mainly looking for something that will cover pretty much anything. I dont want it to lag out just because graphics are a bit high. Is there anything specific of that that u reccomend ?
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Sorry for double post, but my OS is Win7 64 bit, if that help at all.
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If price is no object, get a GTX 480 based card.
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Just searched a little bit. This is what i came up with:http://www.amazon.com/Zotac-GeForce-Gra ... B003N18TEC and http://www.google.com/products/catalog? ... CHAQ8wIwBw#
For mxsim perticularly, which would be better for a Win7 64bit laptop?
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Remember that if your running on a laptop your going to have to buy a card for a laptop. They dont use the same cards as pc's
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Wow, completely forgot about that! Any website that is reccomended ?
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Sorry for double post, but jlv, considering i now know that laptop and PC cards are different, are there any other recomendations or any links you can give me for a highly recomended card. Price range between 375$ to somewhere near 480$. If theres anything good anywhere near those prices, if i could have a link that'd be great,
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There isn't a standard graphics slot for laptops. Some laptops have a proprietary graphics slot but most are not upgradable.

My advice would be to buy a good desktop and use a cheap laptop that you won't miss too much if it gets stolen.
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Hmm, well what else can i do to upgrade my performance without buying a new pc?
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You can buy a extern graphic card
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Oh you're on a laptop teehee, well what can I say, poor you.. nah jk, I honestly dont know much about upgrading laptops sorry bud, google some :).
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