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Video card vs video card....
Sup guys?? Ive been wanting to play battlefield 2 for hell of a long time, and now I just have to decide what video card im going to purchase.
Well heres my story to fill you all in. I went to a local lan center because they had some special 10 bucks for like 4 or 5 hours or something like that. I go on there, and I looked through the games. Cs 1.6, World of warcraft, Command and conquer, blah blah blah, and I came across Battlefield 2. The Moment i seen it I did not want to play anything else. Needless to say, I spent all my time on BF2 rather then snoop around on the other games I thought I wanted to play. Now I already was building a new computer, but this gave me a rather new incentive because I wanted to play CS: Source. My friends mom who works at dell hooked me up with a free pentium 4, so i decided to build around that since I was on an extreme budget. Case, Motherboard, Ram all came, and I threw some old stuff from my other desktop into the new computer, and It runs pretty damn well, since im on it right now.
Now heres my problem. I still need to buy a video card, which is going to be my most expensive item, so of course i lurked around for a while. And now im in the 150$ range of cash, so i need to figure out which one im gonna buy after narrowing it down to 3 video cards.
This here XFX 6800xt looks pretty good. My favorite colors black and green!
Then I recently found this BIOSTAR 6800XT. Same card, some differences..
Thanks extremepilot for this find. ATI x800GTO
The XFX version has a 300mhz core, 1000 mhz memory speed, 256 bit, GDDR3.
The Biostar version has a 325 mhz core, but only 700 mhz memory speed. Still 256 bit, but only GDDR2. But you also get 512 MB video memory, opposed to XFX's 256.
**forgot to mention..agp only..
I thought maybe you guys could give me some insight on this. Both cards are unlockable to 12 pipes (x800gto 16 pipes.) , and the biostar card is good with overclocking up to 800mhz memory I read.
3.20 GHZ P4 (HT enabled) - 30 GB Western Digital IDE** - Geforce 4 Ti4200 AGP 8x 64mb version** - 1024 mb DDR 400 G.SKILL ram - 420 watt RAIDMAX PSU (** are the ones that are going to be upgraded soon or a later)
Appreciate the help guys.
Well heres my story to fill you all in. I went to a local lan center because they had some special 10 bucks for like 4 or 5 hours or something like that. I go on there, and I looked through the games. Cs 1.6, World of warcraft, Command and conquer, blah blah blah, and I came across Battlefield 2. The Moment i seen it I did not want to play anything else. Needless to say, I spent all my time on BF2 rather then snoop around on the other games I thought I wanted to play. Now I already was building a new computer, but this gave me a rather new incentive because I wanted to play CS: Source. My friends mom who works at dell hooked me up with a free pentium 4, so i decided to build around that since I was on an extreme budget. Case, Motherboard, Ram all came, and I threw some old stuff from my other desktop into the new computer, and It runs pretty damn well, since im on it right now.
Now heres my problem. I still need to buy a video card, which is going to be my most expensive item, so of course i lurked around for a while. And now im in the 150$ range of cash, so i need to figure out which one im gonna buy after narrowing it down to 3 video cards.
This here XFX 6800xt looks pretty good. My favorite colors black and green!
Then I recently found this BIOSTAR 6800XT. Same card, some differences..
Thanks extremepilot for this find. ATI x800GTO
The XFX version has a 300mhz core, 1000 mhz memory speed, 256 bit, GDDR3.
The Biostar version has a 325 mhz core, but only 700 mhz memory speed. Still 256 bit, but only GDDR2. But you also get 512 MB video memory, opposed to XFX's 256.
**forgot to mention..agp only..
I thought maybe you guys could give me some insight on this. Both cards are unlockable to 12 pipes (x800gto 16 pipes.) , and the biostar card is good with overclocking up to 800mhz memory I read.
3.20 GHZ P4 (HT enabled) - 30 GB Western Digital IDE** - Geforce 4 Ti4200 AGP 8x 64mb version** - 1024 mb DDR 400 G.SKILL ram - 420 watt RAIDMAX PSU (** are the ones that are going to be upgraded soon or a later)
Appreciate the help guys.
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