Author Topic: New video card (Read 449 times)

angelsandair · « **on:** February 12, 2008, 09:12:53 PM »

Well apparantly ive been having bad frame rate...... and i guss its cuz of my graphics card.

I have the:

Integrated ATE RADEON XPRESS 200

-PCI expresss slot

so what would be a good thing to replace thats cheap (50-150$$) hopefully cheapest.

Fulmar · « **Reply #1 on:** February 12, 2008, 11:36:42 PM »

Well onboard video is the absolute worst you can do. So the skies are only clearer from here (that is if you upgrade to a video card). $50 won't really bring you much of an improvement. $100, probably yes.

For $70, the ATI 2600 Pro is probably your best bet.
For $100, either the Nvidia 8600GT or the ATI 2600XT

The +$30 is going to give you maybe 10-15 FPS on fairly low resolutions.

Do you know what kind of processor you have?

Krusty · « **Reply #2 on:** February 13, 2008, 12:42:00 AM »

Don't get an 8600. Get a 7600GT instead. Skip 8000 series until you go full tilt for 8800s (and you don't know if your computer can handle that, I bet).

angelsandair · « **Reply #3 on:** February 16, 2008, 04:48:25 PM »

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Originally posted by Fulmar
Well onboard video is the absolute worst you can do. So the skies are only clearer from here (that is if you upgrade to a video card). $50 won't really bring you much of an improvement. $100, probably yes.

For $70, the ATI 2600 Pro is probably your best bet.
For $100, either the Nvidia 8600GT or the ATI 2600XT

The +$30 is going to give you maybe 10-15 FPS on fairly low resolutions.

Do you know what kind of processor you have?

I have an AMD 64 Athlon processor

Fulmar · « **Reply #4 on:** February 16, 2008, 05:43:07 PM »

Do you know how fast that Athlon is? Like is it a 3600? 4000? 5400? etc?

If you right click on 'My Computer' on the desktop and go to 'Properties,' it will tell you host fast your processor is.