best upgrade from 9600 gso

[terryhillis]

i recently bought a evga 9600 gso 384mb for my computer and i play on a 47 inch lcd. so when i tried to play crysis @ 1960x1080 it was running at like 3 fps so. so what is a (evga or nvidia) that will show considerable performance over what i had.

my specs
500 watt power supply
dual core processor @ 2.11 ghz
9600 gso
2gb ddr2 ram

thanks

[selden]

You need a card which includes a good fan and you need to not block the system's ventilation openings.
Graphics cards run much hotter when they're drawing 3D than they do when they're drawing a 2D desktop.

[terryhillis]

oh sorry i kinda worded that weird when i said fried i didnt mean literally just like really bad performance. but thanks, i didnt know that

[selden]

Higher numbered models give better performance.
9800>9700>9600. Or you might consider their next generation card, recently announced, the GTX 280, if you can afford it.

Tom's Hardware has a reasonable summary of graphics cards at http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gam ... ,1965.html

ATI often is better at DirectX, but Nvidia traditionally has had fewer bugs in their OpenGL support, which is what is needed for Celestia.