Nvidia Graphics cards for dummies

Which to choose?? there are like tons of Nvidia graphics card out there in the market and the price varies from $30 - $1000.

In this short post i will summarise what you would need to look out for when finding a Nvidia graphics card. I am sorry for those ATI fans because i never purchase or study ATI graphics before. :P

Nvidia launch their cards in series according to their Graphics processing technology as while as architecture.

Nvidia Cards often range from 100-900

100 - 400 == Low end card (Cost around $30 - $100)
500 - 700 == Mid range card (Cost around $100 - $250)
800 - 900 == High end card ($250 onwards)

After dealing with the series, there are also abbreviation for each card on each series namely

GS, GT, GTX

GS == Worst in performance
- They are normally a scaled down version of the GT and thus contains lesser pipelines, slower clock speed etc
GT == Normal performance
- Normally the flagship card of the series where it will usually be extended to GTX
GTX == Best performance
- Best in the class

Overclocked versions
It is actually to increase the clock rate of the card so that it out performs if default performance, some graphics card dealers like Asus have some overclocked cards which will perform better then the default card (Common sense) but it usually needs some time for card dealers to release it.

Mobile versions
Those are mostly scaled down integrated cards found in laptops/notebooks or even desktops. Their performance will be much lesser then their non-mobile counterpart.
For example :
9600m GS < 9600GS
So when you are buying a new so called "Gaming"notebooks please do not only see the series of the graphics card installed however check if whether it is the Mobile version as you will cry after purchase it and find that it cannot run certain games or programs. Some laptops/notebooks have a full non-scaled down version of the card but it will cost you around $3600 or more.