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If you're thinking of buying a new graphics card, a good place to start is at
Tom's Hardware.
There you can find lot's of info about different cards.
I'm planning on spending a smaller fortune on a Leadtek GeForce 6800GT 256. Lot's of new games are coming up that require good cards (like HL2, or Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory).
All of us must have some kind of expirence with different cards, what is your expirence with your own card? Feel free to tell all of us...
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Posted: 2004-11-18 21:04:18
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Always been an nVidia fan, though I won't be upgrading my graphics card until the Nforce 4 motherboards are out. (mmm pci-e sli
)
Currently using the 8x GeForce 4 ti4200 from Albatron.
Not a bad card, works with most modern games and doesn't lag cept on some fo the more intense games like Farcry.
Having an Xp3200 and a Gig of ram helps too I guess
Most any highend card from either manufacturer is good though, not like you'll notice it being slow.
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Posted: 2004-11-18 21:36:58
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these thing are what allways confuse me, im goin to have a look at that web site and hope fully it will make things clearer 4 me, im not even sure what grafics card i have, ill have a look, all i know is that i piad a bomb on a sony pc last year, lol
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Posted: 2004-11-18 22:35:01
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I have a ATI 128mb radeon 9200 vivo, 8x and works fine with all games without lag
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Posted: 2004-11-18 22:47:48
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nickorooster Posts: > 500
@ The guy above
What do you run them on, 800*600?
. Try far-cry, doom 3 or Half-life 2. Good luck. Have to agree with your choice of brands tho. ATI all the way.
I was one of the lucky few that got a 9500 PRO (a slightly slower version of the 9700PRO) before ATI stopped producing them, as they cost too much to make
. It's always been faithful, but these days there are some limits. Half-LIfe 2 will probably lag it up a bit, as doom 3 does on high detail settings.
Nick
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Posted: 2004-11-19 12:52:40
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I got an ATI 9700Pro and I can play with full graphics but sometimes it tends to lag with hardware sucking games, I might upgrade to a newer one
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Posted: 2004-11-19 13:13:42
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@nickrooster did you try modding it to 9700 ? :-)
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Posted: 2004-11-19 13:32:45
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nickorooster Posts: > 500
Hell yes. And it worked rather nicely. But got a bit hot
. SO being the cheap-arse I am I reset it and everything is cool again. I love my mobo
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Actually, I have a question. I want to upgrade a component, but I'm not sure what my system's bottleneck is at the moment. Any advice? My PC is currently as follows:
Asus A7V8X-X
AMD XP2400+
512 DDR 2700 (333)
ATI RADEON 9500PRO
17" Generic CRT
80Gb Seagate Barracuda
CD-RW Drive
DVD Drive
So what should I upgrade? I was thinking another 512 meg stick of RAM (DDR 400 this time) or a processor upgrade? Ignore the crappy monitor 'cause that would be the most expensive to upgrade
.
As a follow-up, where do you guys get your components? I was thinkng
www.aria.co.uk, they sell OEM parts for cheap. Any experience with these guys? ANy better deals?
Nick
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Posted: 2004-11-19 14:43:06
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Right now: ATI 9800 Pro (P4 3,0 HT, 1Gb RAM)
but i think fan is going to die soon.. severe lags sometimes in NFS UG-2 Still under warranty so i will try to get latest tackle instead, even if it means spending some money in exchange.
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Posted: 2004-11-19 14:49:05
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I don't think there's a reason to buy a pci card au the moment. The games don't use the new transfer rate (and probably wont do so for a while either). On top of that, buying a pci card would force me to buy a new motherboard as well.
It took me 10 minutes to get my 9800 pro sold today, lol! ;-)
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Posted: 2004-11-19 15:26:11
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