Simviation Forum - Suggest a graphics card

Nov 30^th, 2004 at 10:32am

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Hiya

I am runnin a NVIDA GeForce MX 100/200, on a Pentium 4, 1795 mhz with 256Mb.

Do I need too upgrade anything to get better game play?

Thanks

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Reply #1 - Nov 30^th, 2004 at 10:33am

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Can we have some more specs?

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Reply #2 - Nov 30^th, 2004 at 10:35am

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What specs do you need to know?

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Reply #3 - Nov 30^th, 2004 at 10:40am

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Just the normal stuff i think... If you don't know them then PC Wizard 2004 will tell you... Its here http://www.cpuid.com/pcw.php.

Just CPU / GPU RAm and stuff like that.... I think! Grin

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Reply #4 - Nov 30^th, 2004 at 12:28pm

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It depends on how much money you want to spend.
Navida just relased one that sell for $499.99 this is probably the highest price. You have to know what types of video card your system will support. Some system will only support PCI cards while others will support AGP & PCI cards. The newest ones use PCI EXPRESS ports. Your system must have been purchsed recently for this option. Or you can always buy a new Mother board. But the options are endless You have to decide what exactly you want & can afford. But if you can not get at least one with 64 meg ram I would not even bother. The 64 meg ram ones will only make you want a better one. I would suggest that whatever make you get make sure it has at least 128 meg ddr ram
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Reply #5 - Nov 30^th, 2004 at 1:29pm

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Hey SOP ( Smoveoporator ) ,

You might also go to RCS Panels and see what Roy Chaffin has to say . He seems to do a lot of testing on cards .

Jamie

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Reply #6 - Nov 30^th, 2004 at 1:56pm

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.........Thanks.

I will spent upto £200. I didnt really want to bother with new mother bourds....too complicated for me.

I am not sure if my existing graphics card is giving me the best game play....Is my card rubbish...or will a new all singing...all dancin card improve the game?

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Reply #7 - Nov 30^th, 2004 at 2:39pm

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I'd recommend one of the GForce Ti range, I'm running a Ti4600 and getting brilliant results with all FSs/CFSs. But if you want to go the whole hog get one of the Ti5000 range, they are AWESOME 8)

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Reply #8 - Dec 2^nd, 2004 at 1:04pm

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.........Thanks.

I will spent upto £200. I didnt really want to bother with new mother bourds....too complicated for me.

I am not sure if my existing graphics card is giving me the best game play....Is my card rubbish...or will a new all singing...all dancin card improve the game?

Buy an Nvidia 6600GT bang for buck, you WON'T better this card for the price!

Your current system will drive it quite well, however, you won't get the best from your system with only 256MB RAM!

My advice, £150 on the 6600GT and the other £50 on as much RAM as you can get (probably, another 512MB stick)

RAM and new card combined, you will be amazed by the performance boost I promise you.

My choice, Leadtek WinFast GeForce 6600 GT 128MB DDR3 TV-Out/DVI (AGP) from

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/copy_of_6600_GT.html ; Wink

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