Which video card

[Smeghead]

you would choose that Nvideo over the x1950?

Im also thinking about saying screw it and changing the mobo, memory and getting a PCIe version instead.
If i had that option which PCIe would you get for under $150?

[Eloricth]

Like I said before, I have no experience with ATI cards other than what my friends have told me from their use, and from reading comments on message boards.

So all I'll recommend are nVidia.

As far as a PCI-E card is concerned. For under $150, I'd recommend this:

XFX PVT84JYDF3 GeForce 8600GT 512MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Retail $129.99 + $5.84 shipping ($99.99 after $30 MIR).

-Elo

[Smeghead]

That does look nice.

I need to get a new motherboard, CPU and memory then I guess YUK!
Im so out of the hardware game I know nothing about all that any more.
Single core, dual core, whats the diff?

If I have about $350 to spend on a mb/cpu/mem/video what do you think?
Ive always been scared of AMD, always stuck to Intel

[Eloricth]

Nothing wrong with AMD.
Been using their CPU's exclusively for 7 years and I've yet to have one fail or be defective.

Getting a decent CPU/Mobo/RAM/Video combo for under $350 could be tricky...I'll see what I can dig up.

I just recently upgraded from a single core cpu to dual core, and it's made a dramatic difference. Basically all a dual core cpu is, is a single chip with two processors inside it. They have their own L1 & L2 caches (at least with AMD...Not sure about how Intel's caches and memory interface works...).

I'll see what I can do about the rest...

-Elo