That is a pretty good card at a good price...especially for AGP... I am tempted to buy it...For my Media Center PC.
Ok, since the net is global, can you guys point us noobs to the right direction? Im on an Athlon 64 3000+, 1GB RAM GeForce 6200 Turbocache 256MB .. so I have pci expreess (thats a good thing, right?) What should I upgrade? and with what?
PCI-E is a good thing (I believe) - it just means the slot is smaller. I'm pretty sure you're going to have to get a newer card. I love my 8800 but that might be overkill really. Might try the 7000 series ... The chip is also going to give you problems (I think) ... take a lok at some Intel Core Duo chips. I bought all my parts at newegg.com and was very happy with the delivery. Does the demo run on your computer at all? ****EDIT: It looks like Butzie and I posted at the same time! He's talking about the RAM when he's asking about the DDR...
Basically the AGP's max bandwidth is 2.1GB/s and PCI-e is around 4GB/s. Even the most current PCI-e cards are not using the bus to its full potential. Yet it is still much faster than AGP and has more room to grow... If you buy an AGP board or gfx card you are just wasting money. Eventually, you will be forced to upgrade anyway, so I would suggest getting a low end 8000 series NV card with a pretty decent motherboard, RAM, and CPU... all of which can be had for under $550. Prices change but this is what I would get for a budget system. ASUS EN8600GTS/HTDP/256M GeForce 8600GTS 256MB CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 Conroe 2.33GHz LGA 775 Processor $522.97 plus shipping and tax if applicable...
An AMD/ATI box would be even cheaper and still good enough. POWERCOLOR 26XT512M/D3HDMI Radeon HD 2600XT 512MB AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Brisbane 2.6GHz Socket AM2 65W Black Edition Processor GIGABYTE GA-MA69GM-S2H AM2 AMD 690G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 $437.97 plus shipping and tax
I found a local store that has a 7600 GS card for $132 (USD). I wanted to buy some ram too .. but I can only handle DDR1 .. and my 2 slots are beeing used. By the way, my RAM is PC2700 (166MHZ) ..
hold crap thats worse than mine... my specs which run the cod4 demo on MAX settings with no choppiness: AMD Athlon XP 3200+ 2 Gigs DDR ram (200 Mhz) ATI Radeon X1300 if you got this or above, you should be fine..
no prob.. im pretty sure most people will be able to run it on low settings.. thats what i will probably do, but the demo runs on max settings (woo! go me!)
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