Whats a good video card?
 

Like in the 128 mb area? I have heard that ATI is great. Butis there any others I need to know about before I get one?

ATI

That's all you need to know.

Anything by NVIDIA or ATI that is over 175 dollars. :shifty:

Thanks guys now Im gonna go looking.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....7&type=product


What about this one?

That one's not a bad card.

How much are you willing to spend, is the question.

Get an X800
You wont regret it, but your wallet might :D

No shit. Sweet ass video card though.

get the bfg geforce 6800 gt oc
Its faster then x800 pro

$100-$175

Just spend the extra 75 dollars and get this one.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....1&type=product

You wouldnt regret it.

Thats sweet but a little to much.

The thing is... alot of the newer games are demanding alot more.

By getting a lower grade video card, you are only reassuring a closer date of obsoletion.

Besdies, maybe you can try online.

The cards usually seem to be cheaper.

Well I dont play many pc games as of right now so I dont need a reall super duper one. Plus my card now plays dvd horribly. So its manily for dvd and part time games.

Then get an NVIDIA FX series.

Middle of the road when it comes to power and price.

I bought an FX 5600 for 150 bucks almost a year ago and its been good to me,

Ok, this will keep you under your $175 limit but keep you good and up to date.

If you looking for just a plain videocard: ATI RADEON 9600XT at $164.00
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...102-331&depa=0

If you are looking for some good DVD action and while you're at it, TV with Remote, and still good gaming: ATI All In Wonder RADEON 9600 at $139.99
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...102-345&depa=0

Those are your two best bets. The All-In-Wonder is pretty good, it's for people who really like to use their computer and just want a one stop videocard for everything. The 9600 was when ATI first started killing NVIDIA in the race and the XT is a great series. I would suggest the XT if you don't want the extras but if you want to watch TV and everything on your computer, etc. the AIW is a great card as well.

For your price range, I also reccomend this one. It is a great card, and while it's not top of the line it can still handle some of the newer games.

I would go with the ATI Radeon 9600 pro

Heres what I got


http://getyourtech.biz/images/radeon%209200%20128mb.jpg

And thanks to all for the help.

just hope you do not want to play far cry, doom 3, or half life 2

yeah, 9200 is kinda the lower end of higher cards :/

but if gamming isnt your primary concern, and dvds are....then its a nice card.\

you would have like the all in wonder card though...super nice.

Not great for gaming, but a good general purpose card.

I have a ATI 9000, and Farcry runs great.

Which ATI/NVIDIA card would be a good investment for gaming as the primary priority, like World of Warcraft :o

ATI X800 :)

Any ATI 9600 and up works really well.

I'd actually go with the ATI Radeon 9800 XT. It will save you some money more then the X800 series would, let you max the graphics, and still run a solid frame rate. The reason I say that is I have a feeling, or hoping, that the next series of cards might actually pass the 512 mark. Then put your money to that and you'll have it made.

Anything above an Radeon 9600 will run fine, especially with WoW (I have a Geforce 4200 and it runs quite well)

can you set every thing to very high

Yes. But I don't. Because my ram can't handle it.

what settings do you run it at

Yeah, I've never ever changed my video card. Pretty sure it's NVIDIA. How do I check it's properties and whatnot in XP?

Control Panel > System > Hardware > Device Manager > Display adapters

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20031229/
this site has a lot of benchmarks for different cards so you can see what video card are better then others
they do not have the x800 or the geforrce 6800
here’s a list of cards they did benchmark
GeForce FX 5950 U
GeForce FX 5900 U
GeForce FX 5900
GeForce FX 5900 XT
GeForce FX 5800 U
GeForce FX 5800 N
GeForce FX 5700 U
GeForce FX 5700
GeForce FX 5600 U
GeForce FX 5600 U
GeForce FX 5600
GeForce FX 5200 U
GeForce FX 5200
GeForce4 Ti 4600-8x
GeForce4 Ti 4600
GeForce4 Ti 4400
GeForce4 Ti 4200-8x
GeForce4 Ti 4200 128
GeForce4 Ti 4200 64
GeForce4 MX 460
GeForce4 MX 440-8x
GeForce4 MX 440
Radeon 9800 XT
Radeon 9800 Pro 256
Radeon 9800 Pro ATI
Radeon 9800
Radeon 9800 SE ATI
Radeon 9700 Pro
Radeon 9700 ATI
Radeon 9600 XT
Radeon 9600 Pro
Radeon 9600 ATI
Radeon 9600 SE
Radeon 9500 Pro
Radeon 9500 128
Radeon 9500 64
Radeon 9200 128
Radeon 9200 64
Radeon 9000 Pro
Radeon 8500 128
Radeon 8500 64
XGI V8 Duo V8
XGI V5 Ultra
XGI V3
S3 S8 256
Parhelia 128

At http://graphics.tomshardware.com/gra...charts-09.html
they used a p4 3.2ghz to benchmarked halo set to max detail on a ati 9000 pro and only got 18.47 fps. So I do not think it’s just your ram that’s stopping you from playing far cry at very high

P4 sucks, that's why. We put my video card in my friends pc, which is a AMD 64, and it ran Halo, Farcry, Doom3 fine on high and up. And as to what I play Farcry on. Various, have settings going from Medium to Very High.

you're comparing a 64 bit processor to a 32 bit processor.

If you're going to compare the amd64 to a pentium processor, you have to compare it to Pentium EE

Otherwise, its like me saying AMD sucks cause their duron processer did shit vs a p4 prescott

Doesn't matter... RAM has more to do with your gaming speed than processor does.

When I upgraded my RAM for Star Wars: Galaxies, my FPS shot up -big time-, and I have a shit processor.