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  • sackynut

    #1

    Video card sugestions

    Hey all, Im helping my sister out with choosing a few new upgrades for her Dell which I handed down to her so she can play BF2 better, right now she plays at ultra low with horrible FPS, she says medium settings is fine, high would be awesome.

    Currently she has
    2.53ghz Pentium 4
    512 Ram (not matched)
    128mb nvidia 5700LE.

    I know a lot about video cards but Im just looking for suggestions. First off:
    Should we get more a gig of ram and take out that crap 512, and then crap out on the GPU and get something like a 6600gt. to have a gig of ram, and a 6600gt.

    or should we keep the 512 in there, get a 6800 series and get more ram later or use the left over money to see how much ram we can get? Im going to stay with nvidia for a couple of reasons. A. Im more knowledgable with nvidia and they way the way driver etc and I have never had a problem with them. and B. there seem to be problems with a coupld of ATi cards, not really the newer ones but unless someone can do some serisou convincing, im going to stay with NV.

    okay this is the 6600gt I was looking at:

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    those are like the same card, but somehow different pages on newegg, can someone tell me the diff?

    and heres some 6800's I was looking at:


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    okay one has DDR2, the other has DDR. The memory clocks are a little different, and one has 128mb memory and the other has 512. basically the same price and I can unlock it to a 6800gt. so suggestions people, I can write more a little later but I have to go right now.
  • Trevortt

    #2
    Re: Video card sugestions

    that system she currently has shud be able to play on medioum settings, i have a mate with similar & he has no probs on medium. Maybe u shud check what processes r running in the background, & maybe a defrag the HD & check for viruses.adware/spyware.

    I wud recommmend atleast a GIG of ram & a 6600GT or a 7800GS, depends what the budget is.

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    • _SilentXScope_

      #3
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      yes i would definitely take the 6600gt. solid card for the money

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      • |D|-Char-ley_Killa

        #4
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        i would get the 6800gs

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        • sackynut

          #5
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          okay, well I dont know how the hell your friend can play on medium with 512 unmatched ram and a 5700LE 128mb. I know a lot about computers, I made the msconfig startup perfect along wtih processes in the background. the 6800gs is a tiny bit pricey, though managable. though getting the GS would result in no ram or anything. the 6600gt IS a solid card and thats why Im think about that. 7800GS not in price range.

          the thing is, with the heatsink on the Apolla 6800, I can unlock the hidden pipes and vertex's and clock it up pretty high to a 6800gt pretty easily. the asus one, I can unlock, but not clock as much because not as good heatisnk, but it has 512mb video memory ddr2, as compared to 128mb ddr.
          with the 512mb video memory ddr2, I wouldnt need the extra ram as much, as getting the 128mb one. so...

          haha also the apolla card comes with COD2 which I would ask her for since she doesnt play it ^_^

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          • _SilentXScope_

            #6
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            lol, i would take the cod2 out even before i gave it to her if i bought it. But you should get the 6600gt or the 6800. if i had the money i would get both :) .
            ^ ^
            AWESOME

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            • Sir. MatDef
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              • Sep 2005
              • 2899

              #7
              Re: Video card sugestions

              6600gt+more ram=win

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              • Sir. abjam77

                #8
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                ok, basically with the unlocking deal, it not at all guarenteed, its just luck of the draw, so i would assume that you wouldn't unlock it. The other thing is that they both only hav 128mb memory, which isn't optimal for bf2. I have the 6800, and i couldn't unlock it, and i can't play on medium settings. I would probably suggest the 6600Gt and a more RAM, or the 6800 GS if you can spare it cause that is supposed to be crazy good.

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                • sackynut

                  #9
                  Re: Video card sugestions

                  well the asus 6800 had 512mb video memory and it was ddr2. compared the to DDR 128mb for the same price... 512 is a lot lol.

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                  • imported_Wreck

                    #10
                    Re: Video card sugestions

                    Get a card with 256mb.

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                    • Sir. abjam77

                      #11
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                      Originally posted by sackynut
                      well the asus 6800 had 512mb video memory and it was ddr2. compared the to DDR 128mb for the same price... 512 is a lot lol.
                      wow, right you are, look at that. Thats strage, i didn't know they made vanilla 6800s with 512mb memory...thats proabably the cheapest 512 card out there. Go for it then, it will probably last you much longer than COD2

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                      • Pilot Z

                        #12
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                        I would just spend the money on a 7800GTX or an X1900XTX and not upgrade for ages :P

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                        • sackynut

                          #13
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                          Originally posted by -_J0N0_-
                          I would just spend the money on a 7800GTX or an X1900XTX and not upgrade for ages :P

                          remember her computer is AGP lol and even with the cost of the GPU and the ram it still wont even be 60% the cost of one of those. :p

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                          • LoD

                            #14
                            Re: Video card sugestions

                            What model of a Dell is it? Dimension XXXX???

                            If the system is using SDRAM for instance, throw it away.

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                            • sackynut

                              #15
                              Re: Video card sugestions

                              4550. I dont know what you mean by throw it away...

                              My corsair XMS ram worked in it for a while until I took it out when my new rig was finished, so I mean, that kind of ram seems to work, 184 pin DDR.

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