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The energy consumption of individual components and how to choose a power supply that is more suitable to build a new computer is vital to the graphic card, and energy consumption varies greatly depending on what graphics card you pick. So in this post, we dig deeper into what graphics card is suitable for you.

First, if you look at the specifications of the card, try to focus on only four of them: the quantity of streams, the clock speed, memory and power consumption. Something that is really great about how ATI and NVIDIA is that they share the same label of the same system. The first digit of the model (for example, 9800 GT) shows that the generation that the card is. Today, AMD is the generation of 26, so the HD 6000 and NVIDIA series is version 15, they are labeling their card GTX 500. Also, avoid buying video cards that have four digits, if they do not start with Radeon HD. This means they are the previous generations and are an much old generation of cards.

The rate of the second digit the level of performance they are seeing the card (8 in the 9800 GT). Furthermore, the better the card is for this generation. So if you are looking for an 8 or 9, the card is pretty well the best that can be found in this generation. A 6 means that it is a card of the building performance for players, four is dominant, and all that is lower for versions of the economy. This number is also a shortcut to the number of stream processors of the card over other cards in their series, but is likely to be better and simpler to just stick to a single number.

The third number indicates whether the card is already overclocked or not (for example, the Radeon HD 5770). The number is usually zero, if the card has not been modified by overclocking.

The fourth number shows that the fourth generation card (similar to the first number). If there is a four-digit number on a NVIDIA graphics card, it means that you look on a card created in the first ten generations. If there are only three, it is newer than the (currently in the last 5 generations). If you look at an ATI (AMD) cards, ignore the fourth digit. This is pretty much hogwash. But with Radeon, Radeon # # # # cards are the first generation of Radeon X # # # # which is 11-19 and the Radeon HD # # # # is something newer than that.

Consider also the memory card. However, since the PCI-E 2.0 is now available, the memory is not as big as issue as it once was, but it does not mean that it is not important.I would suggest to get more than 512MB of memory for your graphic card.

Two more things ... trying to find the power consumption, as we've mentioned in previous messages. Knowing this will help you find what you need PSU, and will save you trouble down the road. Second, read the reviews on the card you are looking our for. These assessments are more (more like definitely)important than the actual specifications. Look around and see who else has the card and see what they think.

Oh, I forgot to mention. It may seem obvious to some people, but always try to get a card with a fan on it if you like the way the economy (most high-end cards come with one already). Those without a fan is just cheap and not worth getting.

Here are some graphics cards very worthy of note, you get the most bang for your buck out:

Radeon HD 5570 - $ 65 Radeon HD 5770/6770 - $ 130 Radeon HD 6870 - $ 195 GeForce GTX 570 - $ 330 GeForce GTX 580 - $ 450