good graphics cards 80-110

[_captin_felix_]

and will it improve from an fx5500 256mb?

many thanks felix

[[R-PUB]MrD]

Re: good graphics cards 80-110

pounds? dollars? aus dollars?

pci-e or agp format?

existing PSU for power considerations?

existing cpu and ram for bottleneck considerations?

[_captin_felix_]

Re: good graphics cards 80-110

pounds

pci

a enbarrising amd athlon xp 2400+

asus A7V333

512mb ddr pc2700 ram

i dont no how much power

[cloakster]

Re: good graphics cards 80-110

The fx5500 is either PCI or AGP, not PCI-E. If you want to see a bigger improvement you will need to upgrade your ram to 1gb and get a new gfx card.

[_captin_felix_]

Re: good graphics cards 80-110

i ment pci

and i have got another 1gb just need to put it in

[cloakster]

Re: good graphics cards 80-110

IMO, it will not be worth it to spend money on a dead format like PCI. But if you do really want to upgrade then the X1300 pci is the best one.

[_captin_felix_]

Re: good graphics cards 80-110

will it even be worth it?

[[R-PUB]MrD]

Re: good graphics cards 80-110

strange you have a pci card, normally see them fitted by people to Dell's with onboard graphics and no agp slot

You will need to go to 64bit to use a decent card, since a decent card won't work to its best as your PSU is most likely too low and the 32bit stuff you have isn't gaming quality gear and will bottleneck the system

this of course means saving up more money and learning to build or knowing someone can do it for you (that really knows what they are doing)

[|CBW|Simon]

Re: good graphics cards 80-110

You don't have a PCI only motherboard. There isn't one that took as much ram as you currently have in yours. It's either PCI Express or AGP.

[[Expletive Deleted]]

Re: good graphics cards 80-110

You don't have a PCI only motherboard. There isn't one that took as much ram as you currently have in yours. It's either PCI Express or AGP.

Are you saying that there aren't any PCI-only motherboards that take more than 1GB of RAM? You may want to do some reading, or talk to a friend with an old POS computer.

My parents have an old HP Pavillion with 1.5GB (1GB and 512MB sticks) and they just upgraded to one of those lame 5x00 series cards to try and squeeze a little more life out of it. Trust me, there is no AGP slot in it. I know because I tried to give them my old 9550 instead of throwing it away. I ended up tearing it apart and soldering it back together for practice...

I don't even fry the little capacitors anymore. God bless that card...

[_captin_felix_]

Re: good graphics cards 80-110

i can put 3gbs in

how do i no if i have pci or pci express or other stuff?

guys i found out wat mother board i have

its asus A7V333

wat pci is it?

[camper.]

Re: good graphics cards 80-110

You need a new PC to even play most of today's games mate.

[[R-PUB]MrD]

Re: good graphics cards 80-110

The A7V333 is based on the current VIA chipset offering, namely the KT333, supporting AMD Socket A processors, AGP4X, and PC2700 or DDR333 memory.

That is an old motherboard if you are correct on its labelling. You have a medium class office pc basically. It isn't going to want to play any modernish games at all. Counter Strike : Source, W:ET, COD1 (medium graphics), Sims 2, that's about your limit.

You are going to need to save about £500 to get the very basic AMD 64 parts and enough gear to slap in your case (if it's large enough) to get to be able to play BF2 nicely with a high enough frame rate you'll be pleased with the results. Then you'll only have 12-18months out of it before theres enough games out on the market that you'll want to play them and can't, needing to invest in faster tech.

[_captin_felix_]

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yeah i no the computer is a peice of ****!
i use macs
and my mac has 2x3.0ghz
16 gb ram
2x30 inch screen
4x750gb drives
nvidia quadro fx 4500 512mb graphics
is dat a alright spec computer

but there is like 10 games for mac and no bf2

[Scinto]

Re: good graphics cards 80-110

yeah i no the computer is a peice of ****!
i use macs
and my mac has 2x3.0ghz
16 gb ram
2x30 inch screen
4x750gb drives
nvidia quadro fx 4500 512mb graphics
is dat a alright spec computer

overkill springs to mind, but i guess you use that more for photo/video editing

if you have Intel chips you can put Windows XP on a mac and get BF2 to run that way,