So I think my vid card gave up the ghost...

what are the signs of a dead video card?

 

The cabinet doors open at night...

 

Terrifying.

Which would be a better deal.

This (Which is what I currently have) or this. I ask cause I got no clue who Galaxy is.

 

9800 GT hands down. GT 240 is slightly slower than even the 9600 GT.

 

They have teh same clock speed on the website there... What am I missing?

 

Dunno the 9800 has a lot of issues with sc 2 (could be mistaken though since I haven't read up on blizzards tech forum lately)

 

I had absolutely zero problems with SC2 since the driver update months ago.

 

Clock rate doesn't really mean much unless the cards have a similar configuration. The GTX 480's core clock runs at 700MHz while the GTS 450 runs at 783MHz but the GTX 480 is much faster. There are a lot of factors affecting GPU performance - number of shaders, TMUs, ROPs, bus width, shader clock, core clock, memory clock, etc - and how those factors affect performance varies per game. That's why best way to choose graphics cards is to look at benchmarks.

 

Ah. K. I ended up ordering the 9800, partly because I figure it'll be an easy install... My computer won't flip a ****.