What do you look for

[GrimReaper23]

What do you look for when buying a Video card and a motherboard. Besides Price.

 

[senseless]

benchmarks, manufacturer

 

[GrimReaper23]

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[macdude425]

benchmarks, manufacturer

Same here.

 

[diabloII]

reviews and its number of problems users have been getting and popularity (the more popular, the better [generally])

 

[Apokalipse]

benchmarks, manufacturer and overclockability

 

[Simon]

User reviews, coparison to a similar card.

 

[GrimReaper23]

kool but like things you can view while looking at newegg I know Pipelines are a big view to look at and the Ram amount any others and I don't know anything about motherboards so if you can teach me that would be great

 

[chog]

For video cards I look at benchmarks, and for a mobo I look at popularity, reviews, expandability, and overall features. For instance you would want a mobo with SATA for future expandability cause thats the way hard drives and optical drives are going.

 

[Simon]

eg: BFG GeForce™ 6800 GT OC
>> PCI Express™
>> Memory 256MB GDDR3 <---------- 256 is plenty 128 is even ok
>> Core Clock 370MHz (vs. 350MHz standard) <--------- core speed impostant
>> Memory Clock 1000MHz (effective) <------ important
>> RAMDAC Dual 400MHz <--- important
>> Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 and lower, OpenGL 1.5 and lower for