Recommendations for a PCI/E video card with 2 DVI output?

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Any good recommendations for a PCI/E video card with 2 DVI output?

The original video card comes with my Dell 9200 (with the GeForce
7300LE) is kind of "low end".

I am not a "serious gamer" - but once in awhile a quick game of
"Battelfield" won't hurt neither. :-)

I looking to spend around $200. Thanks guys!
 
hkfooey said:
Any good recommendations for a PCI/E video card with 2 DVI output?

The original video card comes with my Dell 9200 (with the GeForce
7300LE) is kind of "low end".

I am not a "serious gamer" - but once in awhile a quick game of
"Battelfield" won't hurt neither. :-)

I looking to spend around $200. Thanks guys!
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Since you know how much you want to spend, go to NewEgg.com and use
their very technically capable search engine. Or you can go to
PriceGrabber.com and use their search engine that also allows entering
your search criteria. I think most new mainstream NVIDIA or ATI video
cards include two DVI outputs.

For what it's worth, I'm not complaining about your question, just
telling you how I would do it. If you have any trouble doing that,
feel free to ask.
 
hkfooey said:
Any good recommendations for a PCI/E video card with 2 DVI output?

The original video card comes with my Dell 9200 (with the GeForce
7300LE) is kind of "low end".

I am not a "serious gamer" - but once in awhile a quick game of
"Battelfield" won't hurt neither. :-)

I looking to spend around $200. Thanks guys!
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Nothing personal...but I don't like this kind of generic "recommend me
something" question.

You can spend 5 minutes of your life on a place like Newegg to read about
some cards in your price range. Or, since you have a Dell, you can search
Dell forum to see what other Dell owners are using.
 
BigJim said:
nvidia 7600gt pci at newegg is less than 100 dollars with rebate. I
would not get anything slower. Stay away from the gs cards. I have order
a few items from them and they are reliable. Just order memory and it
took 3 days from the time I placed my order. I live in PA and they have
a warehouse in NJ. Check the link below

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130073
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One advantage of the 7600GT PCI Express x16, is I don't see an auxiliary
power connector in the upper right hand corner. On some prebuilt computers,
the issue is they don't have a PCI Express 2x3 power connector, when one
is needed.

http://images10.newegg.com/NeweggImage/productimage/14-130-062-03.jpg

This is a high end card. It needs two PCI Express 2x3 power connectors,
in the upper right hand corner. This card draws about 12V @ 12 amps.
This will squash a machine with too small a power supply. And the card
may be too long to fit in your computer (or mine for that matter).

http://images10.newegg.com/NeweggImage/productimage/14-125-049-03.jpg

You can get some power numbers for cards, in article on Xbitlabs.com .
The 7600GT draws only 35.8W in peak 3D mode, which is mainly 12V loading
and about 3 amps from the +12V rail. High end cards draw up to 12 amps
or about 4 times the power, and need as many as two 2x3 PCI Express
connectors.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/power-noise_5.html

Benchmarks for cards are here:

http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics.html

The Dimension 9200 appears to have a PCI Express x16 slot. I just
thought I'd check and make sure. The default was a 7300LE Turbocache.

http://www1.ca.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/dimen_9200?c=ca&l=en&s=dhs&cs=cadhs1

There is a comment here, that the Dell 375 has two 12V @ 18A
rails - check the label on the side of the supply to be sure.
(One rail feeds the processor, the other rail would go to the video
card, hard drives, optical drives, and cooling fans.) A Core2 Duo
draws 6 amps from one rail, which means the other 18A rail should
still be able to run flat out. (12 * 6 + 12 * 18 is less than 375W.)
Power unaccounted for, is about 50W for the motherboard and RAM, and
a bit for +5VSB standby. So as long as the Dell cooling system can
take the extra heat, you might even manage to use something more
powerful than a 7600GT. Really depends on how many hard drives
and optical drives are in there, and whether there is a PCI Express
2x3 power connector, for those more powerful cards.

http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/remark,16927241

Have fun,
Paul
 
The Dell Dimension 9200 is the 'Business' equiv of a Dell XPS410.

Their are quite a few people that have sucessfully install a 8800GTS using
the stock PS with no problems, and, I believe the XPS410 can now be bought
straight from the factory with a 8800GTX, so power for the video card
shouldn't be an issue.

for around $200 or so, you can get a mid-range card like the 7900GS or even
better.

I understand that Nvidia has just announced some new DX10 video cards in the
8600 series or so, and their might be one within your budget once they are
released.
 
Any good recommendations for a PCI/E video card with 2 DVI output?

The original video card comes with my Dell 9200 (with the GeForce 7300LE)
is kind of "low end".

I am not a "serious gamer" - but once in awhile a quick game of
"Battelfield" won't hurt neither. :-)

I looking to spend around $200. Thanks guys!
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WWW.Tomshardware.com has a new best for the money video card chart, from
$100 to $500. At the end of the article it presents a tier chart
categorizing performance groups for most video cards available.

Also suggests unless you're upgrading more than 3 tiers a video upgrade
might not be worthwhile.
 
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