Which To Run?

Stevomcs

Buying A Graphics card for Xmas but wich one?


2 games i really want to run, Counter strike soruce/hl2 and Battlefield 2

i have a 2.8ghz pc with 1 gb ram.

currently have a fx5200 ,

(would like a AGP card)

would love a card that runs both games lag free, and good FPS at a good reso.

some of komplett:

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=307924&cks=PLS ~6600 256MB

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=312761&cks=PLS ~6800 GT 256mb (alot of money!)

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=307919&cks=PRL ~ 6600GT 128MB

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=307193&cks=PRL ~ 6600GT 256MB

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ATI cards:

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=303922&cks=PRL ~ Sapphire Radeon X800SE 256MB

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=308796&cks=PRL ~ Sapphire Radeon X700PRO 256MB


now, Which one!!

i need to be able to play BF2 with good graphics good FPS at a good reso.

Endurance Man

Well if those are your choices you want the one that is (alot of money).

PS: Which!!!!!!

Stevomcs

Endurance Man wrote:

Well if those are your choices you want the one that is (alot of money).

PS: Which!!!!!!

so your saying get the 6800 GT 256MB?

angelofdeath

agreed, if you want to run them at decent settings with a bit of aa/af and still have good framerates then the 6800gt is the one to get

Stevomcs

alright cool and the specs of my PC are fine? 2.8ghz and 1gb ram?

is the price for it on komplett good? 275€+p&p

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=312761&cks=SER


any other cheap good sites for cards that ship to ireland? Looked ar overlclockers.co.uk but cheapest is 290€

angelofdeath

price is good, i'd stick with komplett, very reliable and good rma service (i hear, haven't had to send anything back myself) the cpu is a bit of a bottleneck (have one myself) but if it's a socket 478 then it's really not worth upgrading unless you do a complete overhaul of the whole system, ie. new mobo, pci-e etc

Stevomcs

angelofdeath wrote:

price is good, i'd stick with komplett, very reliable and good rma service (i hear, haven't had to send anything back myself) the cpu is a bit of a bottleneck (have one myself) but if it's a socket 478 then it's really not worth upgrading unless you do a complete overhaul of the whole system, ie. new mobo, pci-e etc

*gasp* so in game i will lag?! :O:O:O

angelofdeath

no, it'll be fine, i've the same specs with the vanilla 6800 128mb, and it both run nice at 1024 med-high settings, so the gt will be really nice, may still stutter a bit when theres a lot going on like huge explosions where theres lots of physics stuff going on and the like, but nothing really bad or anything

Stevomcs

angelofdeath wrote:

no, it'll be fine, i've the same specs with the vanilla 6800 128mb, and it both run nice at 1024 med-high settings, so the gt will be really nice, may still stutter a bit when theres a lot going on like huge explosions where theres lots of physics stuff going on and the like, but nothing really bad or anything

Coolio

any chance you could take some in game screenies with ur card please:p:p

angelofdeath

no cos a) im at work and b) i really couldn't be bothered even if i wasn't, i'd be playing instead of talking to you lot

Stevomcs

angelofdeath wrote:

no cos a) im at work and b) i really couldn't be bothered even if i wasn't, i'd be playing instead of talking to you lot

awww shucks. welll thanks for all

DemonOfTheFall

An X800XL plays half life 2 and battlefield 2 a bit nicer than a 6800gt from what I've seen. If the 6800 is cheaper than the x800 youd might as well stick with that though.

Endurance Man

Pixmania is cheaper than komplett