Gfx Card 2
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2 Aug 2007, 15:42
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Hello.
I know that gfx cards are quite expensive nowadays, but next week or smth I'm want to buy a new one.
The price should be around 100-150€ MAX. !
I know that the newest ones are prolly more expensive, but I only want to get stable 125 fps or even more :o) + better playback for high resolution movies.
Which ones are a good choice?
Thanks in advance.
I know that gfx cards are quite expensive nowadays, but next week or smth I'm want to buy a new one.
The price should be around 100-150€ MAX. !
I know that the newest ones are prolly more expensive, but I only want to get stable 125 fps or even more :o) + better playback for high resolution movies.
Which ones are a good choice?
Thanks in advance.
but thx anyway
Sapphire Radeon X1950 Pro 512MB € 135,-
Asus EN8600GT - € 147,77 <---- its crap
MSI GeForce 7900 GS 512MB DDR3 - € 152,87
If you're lucky you might find X1950Pro for about 140e. If you are really really lucky you might find X1950Pro 512MB for 150e.
The NVidia in that price budget has nothing to offer when it comes to AGP. 7600GT cost about 120e but is fitted with a slow 128 bit memory interface, 12pp+3vp. Where X1950Pro has 256 bit with a whopping 36pp+8vp making it superiorly faster.
In case your system is a PCI-e one: than go find a 7900GS or X1950Pro. They are both 256 bit memory bus and around 100e - 140e. I would stay away from the 128 bit memory bus models like the lower-end DX10 cards atm.
But you might find your Pentium 3Ghz going be the bottleneck with ET.
dont do it, you will only get better loading times. Fps is hardly affected by your gfx card unless you want to turn on fancy driver stuff like AA, AF, etc
ET just needs a lot cpupower. A good vid card with 512mb ram is nice for ETQW
A test. In the end gives you some amount of points.