Graphic Card advice wanted

Cisco_Kid · Post by **Cisco_Kid** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 7:51 pm

Howdy Kids,
I was wondering what you folks here (there is another forum that I was planning on asking in as well) would suggest for a video card.
Details are:
the current card on my secondary win2k system is a Geforce4 MX4000 that I purchased last summer to upgrade from a summer 2001 model. What I am eyeing now is something in the $80-$100ish range that can run games like Doom3 capably (I do not care about that game very much either way, but it is the only graphic-intense one I have for test purposes)
To state the obvious, that system uses 4x AGP (an A7V 133 MB)

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Cisco_Kid · Post by **Cisco_Kid** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 8:02 pm

Forgot to add (mostly sleeping baby in arm and one-hand typing might have been part of reason) that I have been eyeing an ATI radeon 9800 as I have some actual experience with that card on my dad's computer

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manadren · Post by **manadren** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 10:53 pm

Poke around newegg.com a bit. Mind you it's hard to find newest cards for AGP slot, but neweggs got a radeon X1550 for $85, and a X1650 for $100. I've got a X1600 Pro myself, it does pretty well, but now I think my processor is becoming the bottleneck

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Cisco_Kid · Post by **Cisco_Kid** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 11:34 pm

Ah yes, I forgot to mention that I was snooping around there last night. Am I right in thinking that my perfectly fine Athlon XP processor will be the slowest component in this equation? I forget the exact speed of that one but it is no more than the 1900 on the main system.
these kind of specs were catching my eye last night:
CPU running at 2.4 GHz or higher
System Memory: 512 MB or higher. 512MB recommended
480MB available hard disk space
450-Watt power supply or greater, 30 Amps on 12 volt rail recommended (assumes fully loaded system)
AGP 3.0 Slot.
Not a problem with memory or HD space , but neither machine has that kind of CPU

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Cisco_Kid · Post by **Cisco_Kid** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 6:10 pm

*finds dead horse....flogs it senseless*
I just retired my trusty ATI AIW 7500 for a Geforce 7600 GS

Huge upgrade, and it means that both of my main systems are running cards less than than three years back now.
*marks calender for 2009-10 as next video upgrade cycle*
</beating dead horse...wonders why it said his name was wilbur>

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scherzo · Post by **scherzo** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 7:10 pm

I don't know much about video cards I have an 8x agp geforce 6200 o.c.

I concider mine a 'budget budget' video card. a 'budget' card would cost 400 - 500 $ and would have the dual frame rate where you have 2 cards (or one card) that processes alternative frames. This type of card would be for serious gamers ( which I'm not )

my 128 mb agp gets me by just fine so I think you should be good with your 7600.

It does look like agp is gone. I had trouble finding a motherboard that would support core2duo and agp ( my board supports both pci - and agp ) but i cannot have 2 pci- e cards. another difficulty with my mobo was finding the hdd connectors ( sata and ide ) most new boards will only support one ide for you dvd/cd drives and not the hdd. it is somewhat ridiculous, they push the sata connectors because of double transfer rate however the disk can still only read/write at 70mb/sec a major bottleneck when one considers the fact the sata transfers @ 1.5 - 3 gig/sec

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robonightmare · Post by **robonightmare** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 6:42 am

Your lucky.
my graphics card probably can't even process goddamn pong without screwing up bad.
you should see what my computer looks like when it attempts Halo!

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