Cheap Quality Vid Card
<div class="IPBDescription">To RUn HL2, alil less than 300 mabye?</div> hey, im done working this summer at the camp and got over 300$ (not too much over) but i know i can get a good HD for 80$ for space, and now i was wodering where and what kind of vid card i can get thats alittle under 300 but good quality to run HL2 smoothly, btw do i need a memory upgrade? im not good with this kind of stuff) <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->
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What gfx card,how much ram, cpu speed, that kinda thing.
btw i think this is my vid card: SONY CPD-G220R or NVIDIA RIVA TNT Model 64 (Sony)
thats what it says in display properties under settings <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo--> i dunno how to get all the other info like ram and such <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
Pickup some case fans for cooling, and overclock the card. works VERY well. Otherwise I would go with a geforce 3 ti. (fairly cheap)
Only problem is that we don't know how new your motherboard is...when did you get your PC and what brand PC do you have?
EDIT: Just noticed the first card was only AGP 8X. <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->
This should work:
<b>Asus Geforce FX 5600 Video Card 128MB DDR Model V9560TD</b> Retail Graphics performance just got better with the ASUS V9560 Series, supporting NVIDIA?'s enhanced GeForce FX5600 GPU.
Features: Smart Cooling, Smart Doctor, Bunded with Software
Specifications:
Chipset:NVIDIA? GeForce FX 5600
Memory:128MB DDR
Bus:AGP 8X
Bus Standard: AGP 8X/4X/2X
CineFX Engine
DirectX 9 and OpenGL1.4 support
Memory Clock: 550MHz(275MHz DDR)
Max Resolution: 2048 X 1536 X 75Hz
Ports: VGA + DVI + S-Video
Retail Box (Bundled with games/Utility Software
Listed @ $170 on <a href='http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?catalog=48&DEPA=1&submit=property&mfrcode=0&propertycode=&propertycodevalue=4637,3668' target='_blank'>NewEgg</a>.
Speed will be slightly faster than the G4 ti4200 and it's DirectX 9 card.
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Theres a bunch of benchmarks, pick a card, ceck the price, and see if its right for you.
( Well, i have 2.8ghz, i suppose you have something around that.. )
Geforce FX is around £100 in UK i believe.
America... $200 ish?
Yeah, but it isn't fully DirectX 9 compliant, is it? I was under the impression that no current hardware was completely DirectX 9 compliant.
On another note, Neither HL2 <i>OR</i> Doom 3 are fully DirectX 9, so don't worry about that <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
( Well, i have 2.8ghz, i suppose you have something around that.. )
Geforce FX is around £100 in UK i believe.
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Throughout my trials and tribulations in bf1942, I've decided one thing: The game isn't nearly as reliant on your video card as it is on your RAM. With my paltry 256 mb of DDR, I get client-side lag. Funny thing is that my computers's best benchmark in 3dmark 2001 was around 13000. Myself, i have a ti 4600 which is doing me right <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> I would seriously recommend not buying anything from the FX chipset - with the FX line, nvidia took as many shortcuts as they possibly could to make the card seem to perform better, when in actuality ATI's current card kicks it to the ground in most applications.
The story is <a href='http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1086025,00.asp' target='_blank'>here</a>, for those who havn't heard this already.
I'd stick with the ti 4200, personally <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> It's the cheapest, most powerful card that you can get and will not mind replacing when the next batch comes out and forces you to upgrade. in short: it's safe, powerful, dependable, cheap, and expendable <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
ATI RADEON 9500 PRO 128MB DDR DVI AGP RETAIL
Specifications:
Chipset:9500 PRO Visual Processing Unit
Engine clock: 275 MHz
Memory:128MB of double data rate SDRAM
Memory speed: 540 MHz
Eight parallel rendering pipelines
Four parallel geometry engines
128-bit DDR memory interface
BUS: AGP 8X support
OS Support: Windows® XP, Windows® 2000, Windows® Me
Ports; VGA + DVI + S-Video
Retail box (see pics for details)
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$205 USD at NewEgg.
<a href='http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?DEPA=&submit=Go&description=radeon+9500' target='_blank'>http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?...ion=radeon+9500</a>
It's the third result on the page.
Only problem is that we don't know how new your motherboard is...when did you get your PC and what brand PC do you have? <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
its a sony vaio i got it 2 years ago
btw i got rid of Mirc, so....
Your mobo should be up-to-date enough.
If you wanna see your entire setup of your PC, try <a href='http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html' target='_blank'>Belarc Advisor</a> It will populate a gigantic list of every bit of software and hardware on your computer.
Sounded like TaruTaru cheering to me. (TaruTaru are a race in Final Fantasy XI.)