Suggestions for a new machine....

[LePaul]

As some of you may know, I just shut off hosting my own sites and such.  They are now hosted by a firm in Southern California...costing me $139 a year....it USED to cost me $189 a MONTH.  Nice savings!

As a result, I have a newly retired server.  Its a Dell SC400.  Pentium 4 2.8ghz w/ 1.5gb of RAM.  The hard drive is a ATA133 40/gb I'd toss.  I'm going to plug in a SATA card and hdd in a week or so.

I'm curious what's a good card for AH2.  This is just a temp PC, until I get around to piecing together my next AMD system.

I dont want to say "cheap"....but best bang for the buck.

Im not a huge ATI fan...but I'm willing to listen  

[Roscoroo]

for cheap a 9600 pro / xt, or a fx5900  id say is about bottem line $100.00 + - will give ya the min cost best satisfaction for ah or other gamming .

the 5700 you have to be carefull with some are good others are wacko

[whels]

Originally posted by LePaul
As some of you may know, I just shut off hosting my own sites and such.  They are now hosted by a firm in Southern California...costing me $139 a year....it USED to cost me $189 a MONTH.  Nice savings!

As a result, I have a newly retired server.  Its a Dell SC400.  Pentium 4 2.8ghz w/ 1.5gb of RAM.  The hard drive is a ATA133 40/gb I'd toss.  I'm going to plug in a SATA card and hdd in a week or so.

I'm curious what's a good card for AH2.  This is just a temp PC, until I get around to piecing together my next AMD system.

I dont want to say "cheap"....but best bang for the buck.

Im not a huge ATI fan...but I'm willing to listen  

id say for

ATI  9800 pro  or X800 xt

Nvidia  6600 GT or 6800 GT


9800 pro/6600 gt both being best bang for $$ right now.

whels

[68DevilM]

im loveing mine right now:)

[Overlag]

X800XL or 6800GT for "mid" range

X800XL is better than a 6800gt but quiet a bit cheaper....at least in the UK

and yes they are BOTH AGP cards

[buzkill]

my sapphire 9600xt was $140 on newegg....good bang for the buck for a temp/backup card

[buzkill]

Originally posted by buzkill
my sapphire 9600xt was $140 on newegg....good bang for the buck for a temp/backup card

and it runs AHII just fine with high detail settings/1024 tex/1280x1024 res
oooops didn't mean to quote:rolleyes:

[Overlag]

Originally posted by buzkill
and it runs AHII just fine with high detail settings/1024 tex/1280x1024 res
oooops didn't mean to quote:rolleyes:

doubtful

a 9700pro wont do that, and its a much faster card.

[38ruk]

the best bang for the buck has to be the 6600GT right now, if i was gunna buy something it would be a x800xl , its a great card at is price level , as long as you can find one at msrp ,not jacked up like ive seen on many sites 38

[Overlag]

Originally posted by 38ruk
the best bang for the buck has to be the 6600GT right now, if i was gunna buy something it would be a x800xl , its a great card at is price level , as long as you can find one at msrp ,not jacked up like ive seen on many sites 38

isnt the 6600gt a ENTRY level card?

[buzkill]

Originally posted by Overlag
doubtful

a 9700pro wont do that, and its a much faster card.

depends on the system supporting it

[buzkill]

Originally posted by buzkill
depends on the system supporting it

the 9700 has more pipelines if memory serves..so it does out perform.....in benchmarks
did it again:rolleyes:
and i just came out of one of mr smogs rooms avg. 70 fps at those settings (i have screenies)

[Overlag]

ah yes the icon......

well at you.

1280x1024x32

512 textures, 1024 textures makes the game run between 1 and 10 fps

sliders 1 inch from full performance (ie crap settings)

FSAAx2 AFx2

fps?

20 on the runway
40 shortly after
10-30 near trees
5-15 in GVs
60 (refresh limited) at 20k above water with no cons in the area

so mr  how do YOU do it?

[buzkill]

msi k8t neo fsr mobo (slow but very stable)
cpu: amd 3700+
ram:1024MB ddr400 (2x512)
no AA
no af
1280x1024x16
measly 38 fps on runway
82 fps 1000 ft over water (animated,full detail)
drops to avg. 40 fps in a furrball
seen it get as low as 18 in a smoky furball
and the
is just because i keep quoting myself instead of replying to others

[Overlag]

Originally posted by buzkill
msi k8t neo fsr mobo (slow but very stable)
cpu: amd 3700+
ram:1024MB ddr400 (2x512)
no AA
no af
1280x1024x16
measly 38 fps on runway
82 fps 1000 ft over water (animated,full detail)
drops to avg. 40 fps in a furrball
seen it get as low as 18 in a smoky furball
and the
is just because i keep quoting myself instead of replying to others

and whats the gfx card again?

no AA
no af
1280x1024x16

these 3 settings = full quality? those settings = no quality.... see why i was getting alittle confused and angry?