Author Topic: which video card (Read 1253 times)

ace31st · « **on:** August 24, 2004, 03:59:52 PM »

whats a cheap, but good video card i could get that would play ah2 very well ?. (cheap as in under 100 $$)

jetb123 · « **Reply #1 on:** August 24, 2004, 04:46:47 PM »

fx 5200 agp 8x 128mb 128bit. That is a good card.

ace31st · « **Reply #2 on:** August 26, 2004, 08:10:11 AM »

i have a 1.1 ghz proccessor on the comp im getting redone, what kind of video card will that support? will it have enough speed to run a 256 or 128?

MaddogJoe · « **Reply #3 on:** August 26, 2004, 09:10:01 AM »

A good place to read up on video cards is at http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/index.html Here they test all of the new cards on the same system to see how they compair.

Useing this chart http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20031229/vga-charts-03.html you can see how some of the newer cards run "Unreal Tourn 2003"

Next you can check pricesat http://www.pricewatch.com/. What your going to find ...in most cases... is that the little bit more that you can pay to go with the 256 meg ver of a card over the 128 meg ver, is about the same money to bump you up into the next/ better ver of that brand of card.

One other thing you can pick up by going thru these boards is that less people have trouble with Nividia based cards than the ATI based cards. I'm not saying one is better than the other, all I'm saying is I read about more pople having trouble with ATI and aces high. I run a GeForce 64 meg card on a 2 gig CPU and run in the 50's for FR.

There are alot of choices and a lot of info to go thru when it comes to video.

ace31st · « **Reply #4 on:** August 26, 2004, 09:14:14 AM »

well i definitely dont want a lot of problems, so i might just focus on nvidia geforce cards, because you said you never have any trouble with them

Starbird · « **Reply #5 on:** August 26, 2004, 11:32:12 AM »

I have both ati and nvidia cards, and haven't had a problem with either type. I'd say get the best performing card you can in your price range.

ace31st · « **Reply #6 on:** August 26, 2004, 11:57:49 AM »

yea thats the question, i cant figure out whether my proccesor will be able to use a good card to its full effectiveness.. will 1.1ghz power most cards?

fuzeman · « **Reply #7 on:** August 26, 2004, 01:17:42 PM »

In my non-technical non-guru opinion the cpu will be the bottleneck. The only reason to get a screaming video card would be if you planned on using it in the next computer also.

ace31st · « **Reply #8 on:** August 26, 2004, 02:08:36 PM »

mm ill get something like a geforce fx5700 , thats a 128 card and the computer should be powerful enough to run it.. i gotta find out if i can upgrade the mhz though, it would be real helpfull if i could

ace31st · « **Reply #9 on:** August 26, 2004, 03:43:22 PM »

woops never mind i did just the message was slow to load

WScott · « **Reply #10 on:** August 27, 2004, 12:35:04 PM »

I have a two year old Dell Dimension 8200 with a 2.0Ghz P4 and 256Mb PC800 RDRAM. The card it came with is a Geforce 2 MX 400 with 64Mb RAM. RDRAM is still expensive and I can't afford to replace the computer right now so I am leaning towards a new video card to up my frame rates in AH2. Most of the time the frame rates are not bad (30-45) but at times when there is a lot moving it slows a little too much. I'd like to hear anyone's thoughts on what I might do to help the frame rate and what card would be recommended in the $150.00 price range. I have had Nvidia cards for a long time but was leaning towards the Asus Radeon 9600XT with 128Mb RAM until I start reading about problems with ATI cards and AH2. Thanks for any help.

ace31st · « **Reply #11 on:** August 27, 2004, 04:42:26 PM »

i got the geforce fx5500 but have wait to see how it performs in ah2... anybody have comments about this card?

jetb123 · « **Reply #12 on:** August 27, 2004, 04:43:43 PM »

Should do great ace. You will be fine.

Flit · « **Reply #13 on:** August 31, 2004, 09:27:46 AM »

Fellas, do some research before you invest in that 256 mb video card.
I think you will find that in most cases the ram in the 256 card is SLOWER then the ram in the 128 versions.

Roscoroo · « **Reply #14 on:** August 31, 2004, 11:42:17 AM »

my two cents ...

the gf 5200 128 is a good replacement for a gf 2 it will pick up the eye candy some but it wont run much higher frames .

a fx 5600 -5900 will show a better improvement

now with a small cpu 1 ghz area I think the 256mb ram cards are the best improvement because you can preload the textures in the video cards ram .

the power colour ati 9550 256mb card is a decent card for this and is under 100.00 ( dont expect the 80+ fps .... but most 800-1.6 ghz machines should see 30-60 fps avg )