Buying New Video Card !help!

ShadowSlay

<div class="IPBDescription">which should i get??</div> yea im buying a new video card(sick of my geforce 4 mx 440). what card should i buy? i have PCI slots btw. i play games like call of duty and unreal tournament 2004 and NS, so i wanna buy a card that will work great with those kind of games.
~thanx~

Boy_who_lost_his_wings

bah you should upgrade your motherboard for a AGP vid card

TenSix

I don't even think they make PCI cards anymore...

I would recommend the Sapphire Radeon 9600XT. From the benchmarks I've seen its comparable to a 9800XT in many current games, but costs much less (Current average price: $150). The model from Sapphire is supposed to be all heatsink... no fans... no noise.

But yeah... its 2004, welcome to the world of AGP.

Talesin

As noted, get a new motherboard. You need an AGP slot for anything even halfway decent (read: something other than an nVidia card). Might look around and see if you can find a board with combined AGP and PCI Express slots, as the video cards are all going to PCI-Ex for the next generation of cards.
Unfortunately, none are really available for it NOW, which is why you want that AGP slot still. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->

What's your budget range? Apparently you can get an ATi R9800 Pro for about $200 or so, which is a killer card. Second-fastest on the market... only surpassed by the R9800XT by a slim margin. Leaves nVidia POSen in the dust, both framerate-wise, and image-qualitywise. ^_^ (read: ATi doesn't have to cheat and lower color calculations without letting the user turn it off, to be fast. As nVidia does on the FX line on ANY new game, including Doom3. Only reason it's 'faster' there. At full color calc, the 9800... hell, the <b>9700</b> smokes the crap out of the FX5950 Ultra, at almost triple the framerates.)