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Jan 14^th, 2004 at 3:21am

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Hi, I am planning to upgrade my sound and graphics cards and I would like some suggestions on what I should buy. What I want is to run FS2002 with full settings and have acceptable to good frame rate and also to fly online so maybe the most important is the grapics card as the sound card should just be a full duplex one.
My current system is a Celeron 1.7, 512RAM-DDR (256MHxz). My currents cards are a SB128 and GeForce2MX (64MB).

Thanks for any suggestion.

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Reply #1 - Jan 14^th, 2004 at 11:50am

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I used to have a 1.7 Celeron, adding my GeForce FX5600 truly transformed it! although, the CPU could'nt drive the card to its true capabilities......

CFS3 Ran like a dog, and does on my new system!

FS2002 was great!

If you really want great FPS rates @ Full settings, then your really looking at a Pentium4 2ghz+ and Ideally, an FX5950 Ultra or Top line Ati 9800. - Little change from £500 I'm afraid!

Oh, another £50+ for an Audidgy Sound card..... Roll Eyes

Posting drivel here since Jan 31st, 2002. - That long!

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Reply #2 - Jan 15^th, 2004 at 9:38am

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More or less you suggest what I had in mind (FX5700 and Audigy). Obviously is a good suggestion for a not-expensive solution. Thanks for the ideas.

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Reply #3 - Jan 17^th, 2004 at 8:56pm

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yeah nice suggestion of card the 5950....will work a beast in fs2002 and copes with fs2004 like a dream aswell but like they have said very pricey over 300 pounds in uk

AMD athlon XP2800+ @2.34ghz&&Epox 8RDA3G 400 fsb, 8x AGP&&1024MB DDR400 PC3200&&XFX 256MB FX5950 Ultra (oc 525/1.04)&&40 gig maxtor 7200rpm&&80 gig seagate baracuda 7200rpm&&

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