can you help me to choose a graphic card which can play SC2 there.It

is said that SC2 requires a high demand of computer

hey...by SC2 i think you mean splinter cell 2.
well whatever it be ...it largely depends on the amount you are ready to spend....
I have 8400 GS on my PC...its not really an expensive graphics card...
i ran splinter cell 2 on my PC....and it gave satisfactory performance if not excellent.....

Why is this in the Business forum?

You never mentioned a budget. If you're wanting to play the newer games but save some money (and consequently lose out on FPS and possibly some special graphic effects), I recommend now going for the NVIDIA 8800GTs. With the 9 series and the 200 series out, 8800s are going to be overlooked. (You can pick one up for less than $150 nowadays.)

However, I personally would like to future-proof myself, but this comes at a price. When you go shopping for video cards, keep an eye out for DDR3 VRAM, 256-bit or better memory bus, and the GPU series of the card. Depending on what you have for slots, PCIe is the way to go, but if you're stuck with the fading AGP port, you might want to just look into building another desktop. I'm guilty of only having looked at NVIDIA for the longest time, but I believe ATI is still a decent competitor with their HD 2600 series. (Take a look at the ATI HD 2600 XT.) Also, keep in mind the motherboard that you have. I'm not sure, but there might be a possibility that the motherboard designed for NVIDIA will choke performance if you put an ATI card in, and vice versa. If anyone wants to correct me on that, let me know.

Dual video cards are a possibility, but the justification of increasing your performance by as high as 50% (but not likely) for x2 the money spent just isn't there. I wouldn't do it unless you had the money to burn, and if you did, you might as well go for a single dream card instead of two mediocre ones.

Yeah I would have to agree that the 8000 series graphics cards are your best choice, but in then a high end 7000 series graphics card will be just as good to run that game.

Check out the graphics cards here and here. The best way to determine a good graphics cards is price, number of reviews and a higher percentage in 5 and 4. Either way 8800ct 8800GTXXX are the best graphics cards money can buy.

I think that he meant StarCraft 2, by the way.

Instead of going through your web site, try NewEgg like SM suggests. I judge peer reviews in the same way: first by number of reviews, then by average rating.

Also, keep in mind that the brand of the card doesn't matter. Pay more attention to the chipset and the other aspects I mentioned above.

I think that you are looking for a card that can support StarCraft 2 (Since even on-board cards like intel 3100 can run Splinter Cell 2 )

StarCraft 2 would require at least 128 MB graphic Memory

It will support DX10 and Shader Model 2.0

considering that its going to allow very high and dynamic lightening effects, I would suggest you Go for at least a Mid segment card.

Although an 8600 GT would do the job but you might want to go for 8800 GTS or GTX if you can. and if your budget permits you can also go for the new 9800 series graphics card.


If you are an ATI fan

you can look for Radeon 4850 and 4870 .. I personally think that these are great cards at an affordable price

8800 is way more expensive than 150 $ if you buy it new .
I have an Gainward Nvidia 8600GT Golden Sample Goes Like Hell than has a Core Clock of 625 Mhz / a memory Clock of 1800 Mhz / Shader Clock of 1440 Mhz , that means that is overclocked by the producers . It has a 256 MB DDR3 memory .

If you have a motherboard with no PCi Express v2 ports than you'll have to buy a 128 bits video card , which offers less performance . But if you have a good motherboard with PCI Express v2 port than you can buy any video card according to your budget .
If you really want to spend a lot of money then you could buy an Nvidia GTX 280 or an 9800GX2 .

@Eukristian

PCI-Ex v2 doesn't have any relation with 128 bit architecture of the Graphics Card.
PCI Ex 2.0 has only increased bandwidth, be it 128 bit or 256 bit.

"PCI Express 2.0 offers twice the bandwidth of PCI Express 1.1, by doubling the throughput per lane from 250 MB/s to 500 MB/s. A x16 PCI Express link hence offers the same bandwidth as PCI Express 2.0 at x8." - Taken from Tomshardware.com

Though for some reasons nvidia has released 8600 with 128 bit, that doesn't mean its not supported on a PCI-Ex 2.0 slot.

Or If i put a 9800 GX2 on a PCI-Ex 1.1, It would still work

I am using a P45 based motherboard that Has PCI-Ex 2.0 and using an XFX 8600 GT on it, and guess what Its working fine

And Even otherwise, I dont think there would be a considerable difference between PCI Ex 2.0 and 1.1 performance, besides supplying more power to the card I haven't heard anything great about the 2.0 specification yet.

This post has been edited by bluedragon: Jul 30 2008, 07:20 PM

I really don't have any knowledge on ATI. but i like Nvida. Always have good things about them. For gaming i would go with an Nivdia 8800