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Thread: Video card recommendation |
    
Bronze Member Username: Silver007
Post Number: 17
Registered: Feb-05
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| Posted on Thursday, March 10, 2005 - 09:08 am: |
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Hi-
I have a P500 system with an old ATI Rage 128 Pro. Would it be possible to upgrade a bit with $20 or so for a used card? I'm no PC junkie, but being able to play some of the new games at less than max resolution would be nice. This ATI is showing its age. |
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New member Username: Rambus_king
Post Number: 8
Registered: Feb-05
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| Posted on Thursday, March 10, 2005 - 09:49 am: |
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For 20 bucks, you havn't a prayer. Don't even bother.
Sorry. |
New member Username: Arrow224
Post Number: 9
Registered: Mar-05
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| Posted on Monday, March 14, 2005 - 12:48 am: |
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Look for a second hand GeForce 4 MX440. Pretty good card, but not up with todays standards. You can still play Halo, BF1942, UT03/04 and whatnot, but not on max resolution and detail. |
Silver Member Username: G3nocd3
San Jose,
Ca
USA
Post Number: 118
Registered: May-05
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| Posted on Tuesday, May 10, 2005 - 07:18 pm: |
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Lol U wont be able to play new games like hl2 homie. Not even min grafix. You need atleast a desent card. If you dont have ago you screwed. No decent pci grafics cards out ne more. Agp, you lookin at atleast 80 $ for the ability to play newer (still not newest games). My card was 550 a year ago.Save up. Dont waste your time with cheap cards. Like i said $ 80 buks and up. No used cards either. Computers are not cars. New stuff only. Period. |
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| Posted on Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 11:34 pm: |
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One possibility would be the ATI Radeon 9250 128/256MB cards. They would be able to play newer games, are PCI, and are fairly cheap. |
New member Username: Joshockey
Post Number: 5
Registered: Jun-05
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| Posted on Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 03:30 am: |
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personally even with a geforce 4 you cant play unreal in fact one of the pcs i have is a pentium 2 with a geforce 4 and im an unreal junkie and i play online you will only be able to play unreal gold and thats it and some of the older quake games.
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Bronze Member Username: Arrow224
Post Number: 68
Registered: Mar-05
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| Posted on Saturday, July 09, 2005 - 11:54 pm: |
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Quote by josh wright:
personally even with a geforce 4 you cant play unreal
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I have one and it plays Unreal Tournament GOTY. And UT03. |
Bronze Member Username: Joshockey
Post Number: 11
Registered: Jun-05
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| Posted on Sunday, July 10, 2005 - 02:11 am: |
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sorry it was a geforce 2 opps |
Silver Member Username: G3nocd3
San Jose,
Ca
USA
Post Number: 237
Registered: May-05
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| Posted on Thursday, August 18, 2005 - 06:34 pm: |
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Ive played UT04 on a 64 built on shared memory grafix serup, running 128 mb ram, UT will run on most comps, its a low cpu cycle game, and you should have no problem playing it on almost ne thing out there. I reccommend anyone wanting a new care, 100$ is the minimun now if you want to play most new games. |
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| Posted on Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 07:01 am: |
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Ive got this really cool new game, called Battle for Middle Earth. I had played it at my freind's place and i loved it, but it doesn't work on my comp.
i need to get a min 64 mb card but 128 mb would be nice. please suggest which card i should get.
ps
my comp has an AGP slot. |
Silver Member Username: James_the_god
Doncaster,
South Yorkshire
England
Post Number: 244
Registered: Jan-05
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| Posted on Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 09:14 am: |
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Whats the budget? |
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| Posted on Saturday, February 18, 2006 - 04:08 am: |
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budget is 80 bucks |
Silver Member Username: James_the_god
Doncaster,
South Yorkshire
England
Post Number: 249
Registered: Jan-05
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| Posted on Saturday, February 18, 2006 - 06:51 am: |
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Well its good to see you have an AGP slot because it widens the choice greatly.
Could you also say what ram and processor you have as these are important to.
I would recommend you check this out for yourself and decide. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Submit=ENE&N=2010380048+1069609639 &Subcategory=48&description=&srchInDesc=&minPrice=&maxPrice=90
All cards on there are under $90 and are agp cards. DONT go for anything from the FX series though because you dont have to. A geforce 6200 or radeon 9600pro are the best choices to make but I'd still go for the 6200.
If you could stretch your budget $18 then you could get this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130262
This will be a far better card to have and will last you longer. Also, its from evga-one of the best vendors.
Hope this helps you more. |
