Stratos Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 I have a Pentium IV with 1024 DDR Ram and a Gforce FX 5200 128mb, planning to update my card to one of this: Radeon 9250 256Mb Radeon 9550 256Mb GforceFx 5500 256Mb GforceFx 5700 256Mb I'm not in a good echonomical moment, you know I have to pay for my soldiers in Irak, the last Ferrari that I bought... So what will be the better, and If you have more ideas, tell me please!! I don't understand anything in russian except Davai Davai! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S77th-GOYA Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 Wait until you can afford a better card. Maybe, check ebay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S77th-konkussion Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 Definitely. None of those cards are worth spending $$ on [sIGPIC]http://forums.eagle.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=43337&d=1287169113[/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stratos Posted September 20, 2005 Author Share Posted September 20, 2005 Will try but, now is not the moment. Thank's I don't understand anything in russian except Davai Davai! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest EVIL-SCOTSMAN Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 6600 or x800 min Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinner6 Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 I use a Radeon x700 w 256M. I run the game at 1152x864. 2xAA and 2xAF, game settings on high and heat blur enabled. Using the preset in Loman that most closely matches my system I get 50-60 fps above 10000 ft and at the lowest maybe 17-20 flying low over a city. Rest of system: athlon 3000+ 1024 pc400 audigy (turning off sound acceleration gave big boost in fps) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D17S Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 Which P4 do you have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diveplane Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 x700 pro here ..nice card https://www.youtube.com/user/diveplane11 DCS Audio Modding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stratos Posted September 21, 2005 Author Share Posted September 21, 2005 I have a Pentium 3400Mhz, so a Radeon x700 will be enough?? I don't understand anything in russian except Davai Davai! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diveplane Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 does your mother board support pci express, if yes get the pci express version that i have....., at the end off the day its how much money you can spend......x700pro fitted my needs, performance and budget .......... also i just like ati cards......over invidia go for what you like.....and can afford https://www.youtube.com/user/diveplane11 DCS Audio Modding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D17S Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 Sounds relatively modern. Check to see which graphics interface you have. It will be AGP or PCI-E. Performance wise, it doesn't matter. (It may someday, but not yet.) Both Nvidia cards mentioned below come in either interface. That CPU will be able to fully utilize the Nvidia 6800GT. This card is now in the $250-$300 price range. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Submit=Go&DEPA=0&type=&description=6800gt&Category=0&minPrice=&maxPrice=&Go.x=0&Go.y=0 The next step down is the Nvidia 6600GT in the $150-$200 price range. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Submit=Go&DEPA=0&type=&description=6600gt&Category=0&minPrice=&maxPrice=&Go.x=0&Go.y=0 Either of these will work for LOMAC. With your CPU, the 6800GT will give better performance with all games. If you can afford it, get it. But the 6600GT will work just fine. Make sure you get the "GT" version of either card. The non-GTs are NOT the same. Don't go any less than these. For LOMAC, it's just asking for trouble! Also, you MUST have enough Powersupply for the new card. These new cards need more power than what you are using now. When you get your card, get Mother Board Monitor (google it, it's free) and record a voltage log as you play LOMAC. Play for a couple of minutes and come out. Check the log and make sure nothing dramatic is happening to your voltage during game play. Anything above a 5% drop means your PS is not big enough. This can cause real trouble too. . . and I mean trouble: Spontaneous re-boots, lockups, fragged graphics. It can be a real mess, mainly because you'd never guess it was your PS. You can shop around for price here. http://www.pricewatch.com/ Good Luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diveplane Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 Check to see which graphics interface you have. It will be AGP or PCI-E. Performance wise, it doesn't matter............... performance wise it does matter pci bus is faster x16 over agp express x8, https://www.youtube.com/user/diveplane11 DCS Audio Modding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest EVIL-SCOTSMAN Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 you name any game that takes the full bandwidth of agp x8 ? so if not 1 game on the face of the planet uses all the bandwidth of agpx8 then it sure as f00k not gonna take all the bandwidth of pcie 16.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel D. Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 you name any game that takes the full bandwidth of agp x8 ? so if not 1 game on the face of the planet uses all the bandwidth of agpx8 then it sure as f00k not gonna take all the bandwidth of pcie 16.... Right. :) Only the hype about the new systems... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D17S Posted September 24, 2005 Share Posted September 24, 2005 True enough. One day we'll see Vcards that need all that PCI-E "room to run", but not yet. They are doing the same things with hard drive busses these days. A Western Digital (P)ATA 100 has a buss that can handle up to 100 mb/sec, but a 7200 RPM drive will only output about 50 mb/sec. This means the 100 mg/sec buss has plenty of capacity to handle the drives's output. Maxtor came out with a (P)ATA 133 buss drive. This meant that the (P)ATA 133 bus could handle 133 mg/sec output from a drive. . . . but the maxtor drive was just the same 7200 RPM machine that could output the at same 'ol rate. There was absolutely no need for a buss that could handle 133 mg/sec. The (consumer) drive that even came close to needing this much buss capaciety did not exist! But who knows how many drives Maxtor sold to folks that just obviously thought that since 133 was bigger than 100, the drive had to be faster. That's what Maxtor was counting on. Shame on them. So, PCI-E 16X has to be faster than AGP 8X? Not so. They are only referring to the data buss's capabilty . . . They are not referring to what the machine that will be using the buss is capable of. That reference is 6800, or 6800GT or 800XL, etc. They are carrying on this "tradition" with the Serial ATA hard drive buss reference now. These busses (SATA 1) can handle 150 mg/sec. . . but they are still using the same old 7200 RPM drives. The only clearly faster drive is the WD raptor at 10,000 rpm. It is using the new SATA buss . . . but even the Raptor doesn't need the the 150 mg/sec SATA buss! It's around 70 mg/sec now? So actually, it would work fine just with the old PATA 100 technology . . . (until you raid 'em!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel D. Posted September 24, 2005 Share Posted September 24, 2005 :icon_pray :beer: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stratos Posted September 26, 2005 Author Share Posted September 26, 2005 Hey guys! I just buyed a GForceFX6600 256mb it's the best I can buy at the moment. So i'm very happy with it! Thank's for your help!! I don't understand anything in russian except Davai Davai! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D17S Posted September 26, 2005 Share Posted September 26, 2005 Sounds like the PCI-E version. Just got back from the computer store and saw a Sony 23" LDC monitor running at 1200X1920 on a PCI-E 6600/256. It was spectacular! I think you're gonna like that card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4c Hajduk Veljko Posted October 16, 2005 Share Posted October 16, 2005 This is the card on my shoping list: Asus N7800GT DUAL Review - 7800 SLI on a Single Card Thermaltake Kandalf LCS | Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R | Etasis ET750 (850W Max) | i7-920 OC to 4.0 GHz | Gigabyte HD5850 | OCZ Gold 6GB DDR3 2000 | 2 X 30GB OCZ Vertex SSD in RAID 0 | ASUS VW266H 25.5" | LG Blue Ray 10X burner | TIR 5 | Saitek X-52 Pro | Logitech G930 | Saitek Pro flight rudder pedals | Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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