<div class="IPBDescription">For BF2</div> Basically my trusty Geforce 4 Ti4200 is to old to run BF2 so I need a better gfx card, anyone got any suggestions for me?
Price range probably won't be an issue but I would rather stay on the better side of £300.
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6600GT is a mid-range graphics card, and as such bests most of the ATi mid-range, up to the X700, the bester of which would be the 6800 standard, which is the end of the mid-range NV cards.
To the earlier questions, I have an AGP 8X slot and a 550W PSU.
PS, more ram is always a boost, a 6600 GT and some bonus ram may be exactly what you're looking for.
O and patch, i sure hope the 6600GT beats the x300, cause the x300 is a low end consumer card. It should only get close to competition with the x600s (for non GTs) and the x700s for GTs.
To be perfectly honest, you could get most of a new computer for £300....
(if it was like direct conversion to american prices, I have no idea how much stuff costs in the UK with VAT and all that...)
Totals £550 ish. Prefer to pay that bit extra right now so I can upgrade small parts in the future when i'm a poor student and have no money :E + I have another £100 on top of that for a new kb, DVD RW cooling etc.
I'm still undecided about Nvidia and Ati, I've heard a lot of people say the latter out performs the former but then some of my friends have tried Ati and complain about the drivers sucking and games crashing. I would be willing to give Ati a try but I don't want to spend all that money if ity's going to crash a lot.
Since you have an AGP slot and do not wish to upgrade mobo, cpu, ect (makes sense) the nVidia seems to be the best bet. I mean, if nothing else, you get excellent performance, for under 200 USD. Much more affordable than most other things, and it lets you save up a little more for whatever else you want <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I don't know about the ram now though.... 1.25GB is a very respectable amount, especially for an athlon XP system, adding 768 MB (what you proposed) would give u less benifit than if you were upgrading from say 512MB to 1GB.
(I know newegg doesn't do UK, but it's just a point)
<a href='http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Submit=GO&Range=1&bop=and&description=x850&srchInDesc=agp' target='_blank'>http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList....&srchInDesc=agp</a>
AMD Athlon 64 3500+
NVIDIA Geforce 6600 GT
Only problem was, only one of my memory sticks decided to work. So I'm now on 512MB DDR. I'm wondering if the memory is the reason why BF2 is a slideshow at anything above medium settings. I'm getting a new 512MB stick of Ram next week so this should hopefully smooth things out.
Athlon Xp 3000+
256 2x Dual Channel DDR PC 2700
geForce FX 5600 Ultra
I'm assuming the RAM is dual channel because I have three slots and two of them are Blue and one is black (am I correct in assuming this?).
Athlon Xp 3000+
256 2x Dual Channel DDR PC 2700
geForce FX 5600 Ultra
I'm assuming the RAM is dual channel because I have three slots and two of them are Blue and one is black (am I correct in assuming this?). <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I have 4 sots 2 blue 2 black, don't think the ram is dual channel tho.
If you really want to know, there is probably a setting in bios or something posted as the latter part of the POST. Press pause when it brings up that table on reboot, it would probably tell you.
And note, you are probably not running the same settings. The jump in texture or model resolution could be just enough to fill 512 when going to medium, making some commonly used textures having to be fetched from the HDD very often. But who knows, maybe medium just dosen't like your compy.