graphics card help

[CyberAkuma]

I dont know much about Nvidia cards...but what is the main diference betewen 1. and 3.? Apart from one having more 1000 in the name than the other.

nVidia GeForce Cards are released in new generations and for every new generation they add the number 1000 to the model number

GeForce 6xxx = 6th generation
GeForce 7xxxx = 7th generation
GeForce 8xxxx = 8th generation
and so on

The SECOND digit in the model number indicates if the videocard is a Low-End or Hi-End videocard.

* Below 600 means that the videocard is pretty much low-end which means that it is not intended for any heavy gaming at all, mostly for office computers and cheap computers that are ment to do ntohing but word processing and webbrowsing.
* 600 means that the videocard handles some medium gaming. While it will not be able to run games on the highest graphical settings it will do okay in most games as long as you stick to medium settings.

* 800 means that the game will handle heavy gaming - these are the videocards you want if you're in to PC gaming.

So to answer your question:

GeForce 9400 means that the card is from the 9th generation of GeForce, 400 means that it's a pretty much low-end videocard.
The 8400 means that it's from the 8th generation and 400 means also again - lower-end videocard.

Generally, the 9th generation is slightly faster, but since these videocards is so low-end I wouldn't bother with it for gaming. Not even for light gaming.

hi guys, Zeke here.
Im a recently converted PC gamer and i recently discovered that my graphics card (6200) sucks epicly (running CoH on low-still gets lag). So Im deciding which one to get. Im on a budget tho. It has to be below $100.

Judging from this [http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-radeon,2151.html] article, the best bang for your buck would be a Radeon HD 4830. My personal recommendation would however be the nVidia GeForce 9800GT. They're all great cards and around the $100 mark.

 

[oliveira8]

I dont know much about Nvidia cards...but what is the main diference betewen 1. and 3.? Apart from one having more 1000 in the name than the other.

nVidia GeForce Cards are released in new generations and for every new generation they add the number 1000 to the model number

GeForce 6xxx = 6th generation
GeForce 7xxxx = 7th generation
GeForce 8xxxx = 8th generation
and so on

The *SECOND* digit in the model number indicates if the videocard is a Low-End or Hi-End card.
Below 600 means that the videocard is pretty much Low_end which means that it is not intended for any heavy gaming, mostly for office computers and cheap comptuers that are ment to do ntohing but workd processing and surfe the web.
600 means that the videocard handles some medium gaming. While it will not be able to run games on the highest graphical settings it will do fairly okay in medium gaming
800 means that the game will handle heavy gaming - these are the videocards you want if you're in to PC gaming.

So to answer your question
GeForce 9400 means that the card is from the 9th generation of GeForce, 400 means that it's a pretty much low-end videocard.
The 8400 means that it's from the 8th generation and 400 means also again - lower-end videocard.

Generally, the 9th generation is slightly faster, but since the videocard is so low-end I wouldn't bother with it for gaming.

Ohhh I just learned something usefull today! Thanks! ^^

 

[CyberAkuma]

Ohhh I just learned something usefull today! Thanks! ^^

Cheers mate
I also forgot to explain what the difference between the generation of videocards are.

The difference between them is that they usually make a slightly faster GPU on a smaller die making the GPU a tad faster. They also usually fix some heating issues adding slightly better fans, faster RAM clock speeds and some other small tweaks and perks.

So don't go buy a GeForce 9400 videocard instead of a GeForce 8800 just because numerically 9400 is larger than 8800.

*NOTE* Now there's a 10th generation of GeForce videocards. They are however not called "The GeForce 10800GT" or something. That is just plain silly.
Instead they went and just added the letter GTX 200 to the 10th generation of VideoCards.
I know. Confusing, but that is how nVidia is. Don't get me started on how ATi card model logic works

 

[outseeker]

I agree, ATI anything man. I have the Nvidia 7300 I think in one of my PC's and it locks up good custom drivers like the Omega drivers. ATI Omega Drivers work awesome in my experience, Nvidia suxors.

 

[Jandau]

nvidia GeForce 8600 GT 256MB here. Stuff works. I run most games on High settings (rarely I drop something down, usually shadows) in 1024X768 resolution (DoW2 included).

Don't get roped into spending too much on a graphics card, you don't need it unless you're stinking rich and want everything in highest possible resolution.

Also, ATI sucks, but that's just my personal oppinion that I will NOT argue about and is mostly based on the fact I've never had an ATI card that didn't turn out to be crap.

P.S. And if you have only 1 Gig of RAM, get more RAM. At least 1 GB, 2GB to be safe. RAM is cheap.