Video Card trouble

[corasked]

My Brother is Rigging up another PC specifically to play WoW,and other games on the side.

Everything is down packed but the Video Card, I recommended he get a 8600gt since he isnt going to be playing any hard core games, and it gives him the choice to play games on the side.

because of his budget he has a choice between a 512mb GDDR2 8600gt, or a 256mb of gddr3.

the 512mb is clocked at 540/800

and the 256 is clocked at 540/1400.

[RaduLykan]

so, what's the trouble? which one to choose?

[Fortify]

Yeah, the 256MB is all you really need.

I actually have the same card, and I can run AoC at an average of 30 FPS, so he'd be set >_>

[Mordar]

if his motherboard doesn't have support for DDR3 then I don't know what's the trouble in picking the 256 or what's the meaning of it being superior at all, I could be missing something perhaps

the 512 it's far superior even if the DDR3 it's a little more clocked than his DDR2 counterpart

IMHO, go with the DDR2, it's that simple