Upgrading your video can be easy. I put the video together so that it will help you upgrade to a great video card without it blowing your budget.
These are the different types of slots on motherboards. The one that works with these video cards is PCI EXPRESS. Visit http://bustype.com for more information on these slots
Nvidia 8600 GT Specs & Information:
NVIDIA® Unified Architecture
- Unified shader architecture
- GigaThreadâ„¢ technology
- Full support for Microsoft® DirectX® 10
- Geometry shaders
- Geometry instancing
- Streamed output
- Shader Model 4.0
- Full 128-bit floating point precision through the entire rendering pipeline
NVIDIA Lumenexâ„¢ Engine
- 16x full screen anti-aliasing
- Transparent multisampling and transparent supersampling
- 16x angle independent anisotropic filtering
- 128-bit floating point high dynamic-range (HDR) lighting with anti-aliasing
- 32-bit per component floating point texture filtering and blending
- Advanced lossless compression algorithms for color, texture, and z-data
- Support for normal map compression
- Z-cull
- Early-Z
NVIDIA Quantum Effectsâ„¢ Technology
- Advanced shader processors architected for physics computation
- Simulate and render physics effects on the graphics processor
NVIDIA® TurboCache™ Technology
- Combines the capacity and bandwidth of dedicated video memory with dynamically allocated system memory to dramatically turbocharge performance.
NVIDIA SLIâ„¢ Technology1
- Patented hardware and software technology allows two GeForce-based graphics cards to run in parallel to scale performance and enhance image quality on today’s top titles.
NVIDIA PureVideoâ„¢ HD Technology2
- Dedicated on-chip video processor
- High-definition H.264, VC-1, MPEG2 and WMV9 decode acceleration
- Advanced spatial-temporal de-interlacing
- HDCP capable3
- Spatial-Temporal De-Interlacing
- Noise Reduction
- Edge Enhancement
- Bad Edit Correction
- Inverse telecine (2:2 and 3:2 pull-down correction)
- High-quality scaling
- Video color correction
- Microsoft® Video Mixing Renderer (VMR) support
Advanced Display Functionality
- Two dual-link DVI outputs for digital flat panel display resolutions up to 2560×16004
- One dual-link DVI outputs for digital flat panel display resolutions up to 2560×16005
- One single-link DVI outputs for digital flat panel display resolutions up to 1920×120066
- Dual integrated 400MHz RAMDACs for analog display resolutions up to and including 2048×1536 at 85Hz
- Integrated HDTV encoder provides analog TV-output (Component/Composite/S-Video) up to 1080i resolution
- NVIDIA nView® multi-display technology capability
- 10-bit display processing
Built for Microsoft® Windows Vista™
- Full DirectX 10 support
- Dedicated graphics processor powers the new Windows Vista Aero 3D user interface
- VMR-based video architecture
High Speed Interfaces
- Designed for PCI Express® x16
- Designed for high-speed GDDR3 and DDR2 memory
Operating Systems
- Built for Microsoft Windows Vista
- Windows XP/Windows XP 64
- Linux
API Support
- Complete DirectX support, including Microsoft DirectX 10 Shader Model 4.0
- Full OpenGL® support, including OpenGL 2.0
Places to buy the NVIDIA 8600GT:
Newegg.com: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814186036
TigerDirect.com: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3041057&CatId=1560
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Nvidia 8800 GT Specs & Information:
NVIDIA® Unified Architecture
- Unified shader architecture
- GigaThreadâ„¢ technology
- Full support for Microsoft® DirectX® 10
- Geometry shaders
- Geometry instancing
- Streamed output
- Shader Model 4.0
- Full 128-bit floating point precision through the entire rendering pipeline
NVIDIA Lumenexâ„¢ Engine
- 16x full screen anti-aliasing
- Transparent multisampling and transparent supersampling
- 16x angle independent anisotropic filtering
- 128-bit floating point high dynamic-range (HDR) lighting with anti-aliasing
- 32-bit per component floating point texture filtering and blending
- Advanced lossless compression algorithms for color, texture, and z-data
- Support for normal map compression
- Z-cull
- Early-Z
NVIDIA Quantum Effectsâ„¢ Technology
- Advanced shader processors architected for physics computation
- Simulate and render physics effects on the graphics processor
NVIDIA SLIâ„¢ Technology1
- Patented hardware and software technology allows two GeForce-based graphics cards to run in parallel to scale performance and enhance image quality on today’s top titles.
NVIDIA PureVideoâ„¢ HD Technology2
- Dedicated on-chip video processor
- High-definition H.264, VC-1, MPEG2 and WMV9 decode acceleration
- Advanced spatial-temporal de-interlacing
- HDCP capable3
- Spatial-Temporal De-Interlacing
- Noise Reduction
- Edge Enhancement
- Bad Edit Correction
- Inverse telecine (2:2 and 3:2 pull-down correction)
- High-quality scaling
- Video color correction
- Microsoft® Video Mixing Renderer (VMR) support
Advanced Display Functionality
- Two dual-link DVI outputs for digital flat panel display resolutions up to 2560×1600
- Dual integrated 400MHz RAMDACs for analog display resolutions up to and including 2048×1536 at 85Hz
- Integrated HDTV encoder provides analog TV-output (Component/Composite/S-Video) up to 1080p resolution
- 10-bit display processing
High Speed Interfaces
- Designed for PCI Express® 2.0 x16 (Note: PCIe 2.0 devices are backwards compatible with PCI Express 1.x devices)
- Designed for high-speed GDDR3 memory
Operating Systems
- Windows Vista /Windows Vista 64
- Windows XP/Windows XP 64
- Linux
API Support
- Complete DirectX support, including Microsoft DirectX 10 Shader Model 4.0
- Full OpenGL® support, including OpenGL 2.0
Places to buy the NVIDIA 8600GT:
Newegg.com: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814143117
TigerDirect.com: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3500208&CatId=1826
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Nvidia 9800 GT Specs & Information:
Click to visit the Nvidia Tech Specs page for this card: http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_9800gx2.html
Places to buy the NVIDIA 8600GT:
Newegg.com: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500026
TigerDirect.com: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3714942&CatId=2306
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POWER SUPPLY INFORMATION:
If you are going to use the nvidia 8600 or the 8800 then you can get a good power supply of 430watts for about $40. Below is the link where you can see listing of power supplies. I found on tigerdirect.com a 600 watt power supply for $65 after rebate.
TigerDirect.com: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Category/category_tlc.asp?CatId=106&srkey=powersupply
Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=powersupply
NewEgg.com: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Description=powersupply
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