radeon x 1950 PRo AGP

[Rushhour33]

Had to sell my nice gaming rig becuz i lost job. have old pc at house. and was gonna purchase a radeon x1950 Pro AGP 256mb 256bit. was wondering how this will run bf2. and at what settings. rest of my specs are 1 gb pc2700 and amd athalon xp 3200, which is 2.2ghz

[[GCA]Tim270]

Re: radeon x 1950 PRo AGP

Not a bad card for its time imo, what resolution will you be playing on though? If you stick another GB of RAM in there, 1280x1024 should run most high and a few meds.

[Basil.]

Re: radeon x 1950 PRo AGP

I had the same setup as you, but i only had a ati 1650pro. I ran bf2 with a mix of high-med with 2xAA 1024x768. You should be fine with a 1950.

Sir. Tasty is right about another GB of ram. that will help a lot.

[[21CW]HIVictim]

Re: radeon x 1950 PRo AGP

Your chip can run HIGH settings fine if you overclock that CPU.

One of my oldest towers that I now use for Folding has a very similar setup... AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 2.0Ghz w/ Nvidia Geforce 128mb 6800

At stock I played at Low... Overclocked to 2.5Ghz and now it plays at High. :p

[kaheiyeh]

Re: radeon x 1950 PRo AGP

I used the same card (except PCI-Express) with 2GB of RAM and the CPU I'm currently running. I was able to play max settings on 1280x1024 perfectly fine.

[**L96A1**]

Re: radeon x 1950 PRo AGP

I used the same card (except PCI-Express) with 2GB of RAM and the CPU I'm currently running. I was able to play max settings on 1280x1024 perfectly fine.

PCI-express doubles the bandwidth compared to a APG card, so I'm guessing he won't be able to play at max settings.

[=)BiT(= Evant3k]

Re: radeon x 1950 PRo AGP

My younger brothers handy down PC, runs a ATi RX1900 512mb and games like COD4 BF2 run great on high 1280x1024, altho he does have a Dual Core 3.0 GHz processor and 2 Gb of RAM. Hell that rig even ran Crysis for me at 25fps 1280x1024 medium to high settings.

[ConscriptVirus]

Re: radeon x 1950 PRo AGP

just remember that 1gb of ram will hold you back...alot

[jdrou]

Re: radeon x 1950 PRo AGP

PCI-express doubles the bandwidth compared to a APG card, so I'm guessing he won't be able to play at max settings.

You're assuming that the additional bandwidth is actually used which is by no means certain, especially with an older CPU. The ATA/100 bus was nowhere near saturated when SATA/150 was first introduced and the same was true of AGP.

just remember that 1gb of ram will hold you back...alot

Yes, I would also strongly recommend going to 2GB.

My brother has almost that exact system but he no longer plays BF2. Athlon 64 3200+ (2 GHz), 2GB PC3200 RAM, Radeon x1950 512MB AGP. His CPU seems to be hurting him in some of the newest games.