I need a new video card (ATI OR NVIDIA)

[timtheenchantor]

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[Omardeth]

best thing to do is wait till the game comes out . try it on your pc and see how it works . anybody that tells you how it will play on your pc is only guessing at this point because the games isn't out yet . matter of fact i think it was delayed . plus by waiting till it comes out the video card market prices will drop by the time the game hits the shelves .

so my advice is wait .

[J-Excel]

For $240 you can do a lot better than a 9200 or 5200FX. I'd go with ATI. They have the edge right now. Maybe a 9600 Pro.

[timtheenchantor]

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[Bill in SD, CA]

So what I need is a PCI bus slot card

Highest ATI PCI card I can find is this:

http://www.internetishop.com/product...VG-AT-P64R9000

I know this isn't what you want to hear, but you may want to look into a new MB with an AGP slot. The graphics will be a hell of a lot better.

Bill

[Buzioid]

Bill is right. You have to move to AGP motherboards. Your CPU wouldn't even be able to process fast enough for your video card at the speed it is at. I had a 1200mhz cpu and gf4 ti4200, once i upgraded to athlon xp 1600mhz the difference was very noticable.

[Omardeth]

ya ya what bill said . i think spending the money on a new pci video card is throwing good money at a bad problem . pci is a bottle neck so it isn't really the way you want to go .

if you get a new motherboard then you will also want to get a different cpu being that the pIII 1.2 gig is old tec . now if you go with a new motherboard and cpu you will have to get that take the old sdram u have in you board now or get new ddr ram ... if you get the new motherboard you will want a agp card . but you just got a pci card ... see my point?


if your budget is 240 u might want to get a new board and cpu and ram with it and in time , when that game comes out get a new video card then .

[timtheenchantor]

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[Omardeth]

to be honost i don't think getting a new card is really going to solve the problem . like i said pci is the bottleneck . all the pci cards will proform about the same in the pci flavor . so spending money to replace it won't really give you any better results i am sorry to say . the ati 9000 in pci form will proform no better than the gf4 mx in pci form

[Bill in SD, CA]

Work the parents.

DFI - CS62-TC - Socket 370 ATX Motherboard with Audio, Video, AGP4X/2X, IrDA, USB, CNR, WOR, and WOL Support

Bill