PNY XLR8 GeForce® 9800 GT Video Card
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 11:06PM My Alienware system is 5 years old now and is still a decent gaming system.
The video card was an ATI X850 w/ 256MB which at the time was a high end card. I have purchased a few games namely GTA IV and Modern Warefare 2 and was unable to play these games on the computer because the new games require pixel shader 2.0 technology. The ATI card was running hot lately and seemed a little flaky so I took the alien apart and blew out lots of dust bunnies but the damage was done. I didn't want to spend alot of money so I looked around and found this card: PNY XLR8 GeForce® 9800 GT.
The reviews seemed favorable and seemed cheap at only $105 so I took a chance and purchased it. Installation was a snap. No problems installing the drivers either. I installed Grand Theft Auto IV and Modern Warfare II and WOW!. Let me repeat... WOW! What a difference in so many ways. The computer runs faster and I can play my games in 1280x1024 with lots of bells and whistles enabled. GTA uses almost all of the 1GB of ram on the card and it runs great. My other games run better. Next I need to install FEAR and give that a try!
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