New Graphics card

[Paladin_Godfather]

I need a new Graphics card.... preferably a 512mb and one that isnt gonna break my already fragile wallet.....


Any Suggestions Tool monkeys?!

[snyper133]

What kind of system do you have now? What kind of price range? What kind of connections do you have on your motherboard? What kind of power supply?

If you answer these questions we can get ya one that works well.

[Paladin_Godfather]

Price range caps at around $200.... im not willing to go higher... My Pc has AGP and PCI, but i prefer AGP.... its just a normal power supply... nothing fancy.. just a normal PC... 2.4 processor.... 1 GB ram... Windows XP... dobly surround sound lol jk...

[poop turdy]

I just purchased an ATI X1950PRO 512M at New Egg for $189 recently, havent used it yet, putting computer together this weekend  .  It got pretty good reviews and it should be a pretty good card....

-Poop

[Icep^K]

buy from New Egg....they are the best

also, they have a great detailed search so you will get the right part for ur system....

[MR|337]

Here's what I'm using atm. About as good as it gets for agp.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150223
I get constant 150-/+ fps, no lag or choke and am usually the first to load in on maps.

My junk:
Intel 3.4 extreme edition
Thermalright xp-120 heatsink
Albatron 865PEPro II mobo
7950GT 512MB
2gb ddr400
Coolermaster 400 watt psu
Coolermaster CM stacker case
XP MCE

[fraggle 79]

Wait for the new ATi 2600 HD   will run around $200 and you get a brand new card. Should be out in June/July

[Paladin_Godfather]

dude..... thats sick.. but in a totally good way

Here's what I'm using atm. About as good as it gets for agp.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150223
I get constant 150-/+ fps, no lag or choke and am usually the first to load in on maps.

My junk:
Intel 3.4 extreme edition
Thermalright xp-120 heatsink
Albatron 865PEPro II mobo
7950GT 512MB
2gb ddr400
Coolermaster 400 watt psu
Coolermaster CM stacker case
XP MCE

[snyper133]

Wait for the new ATi 2600 HD   will run around $200 and you get a brand new card. Should be out in June/July

Don't waste your money.

[MR|337]

Speaking of sick, Last weekend I retired the 37 LCD for a 50 plasma. Wife thinks I'm insane. Games sure do look good on it!

[Hurtz]

ATI X1950PRO seems like a good card for under 200 bucks

[Marlboro]

Here's what I'm using atm. About as good as it gets for agp.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150223
I get constant 150-/+ fps, no lag or choke and am usually the first to load in on maps.

My junk:
Intel 3.4 extreme edition
Thermalright xp-120 heatsink
Albatron 865PEPro II mobo
7950GT 512MB
2gb ddr400
Coolermaster 400 watt psu
Coolermaster CM stacker case
XP MCE

are you joking a big screen for CSS lol wow that great

[MR|337]

It's great! However, I'm stuck on a tiny 19 inch lcd when I'm at work where I play the most from.

Hurtz, I think that Ati card only has a 128 mb interface vs. the Nvidias 256. The memory interface is where it's at along with the actual onboard 512 ram and the 24 pipes the 7950 has.

I also noticed that the more games/programs on your pc, the more problems one is likely to have. I just reinstalled BF2 Monday night, and my load times into the source server have increased a bit. I did have a fresh install of XP MCE, now since adding BF2 and newer Microsoft updates I have began to notice some slow down possibly due to more background services running.

Another thing that will help out big time is upgrading the cpu. in my case I went from a socket 478 3.0 prescot core to a 3.4 extreme edition galatin core socket 478. if you check newegg, they can be found for less than 100 bones! When it was released a couple years ago, they were around a grand.... By doing that, I eliminated the cpu as being the"bottle neck" of my system - when the gpu would out run the cpu. Kinda like trying to put your fist through a funnel. I also just installed some tweaked drivers from guru3d. I now get closer to 200fps at times with v-sync disabled.

[Paladin_Godfather]

im thinking of going for the EVGA GeForce 7800 GS CO 

[MR|337]

I "retired" the system mentioned above. It's now surfing the web and doing "chick" stuff for my wife.

Got a quad core system now with 4 gigs of ram, and I just ordered an 8800GTX 768mb from newegg. I'll post back my results. Should be here in a couple days.

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