Ye Olde Video Carde Update Thread

[ECSNorway]

Any opinions on this card?

http://www.newegg.com/Pro...spx?Item=N82E16814150389
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[Sofaspud]

I'm assuming since that link is to an AGP card, AGP is all you can support. Correct?

If you're stuck buying AGP, I would get as much beef as the interface will allow. I've run a 6200 before, and... they're decent, but it's not
very good for CoX.

http://www.newegg.com/Pro...spx?Item=N82E16814143069

That should do better. Same amount of memory, but of a better type; better chipset, and double the pipeline (128 vs 64 bit). I think it's about the best
you can get for AGP, but I could be wrong.

Paging Dr. Wiregeek, Dr. Wiregeek to the OR, please.

--sofaspud
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[Wiregeek]

spud is in the right here, that's one of the best video cards you can get in an AGP system.

If you can, I'd look at starting to save for a new system. an entry-level Core i7 based compy won't be that expensive. By the time you can save up,
say, 1000$, you will be absolutely shocked at the amount of compy you can buy for the money.

This applies to american dollars, of course.

to compare, you can get a vastly more powerful graphics card for PCI-Express for the same price, and you can go quite a bit further 'up' from that
point.

in AGP, well.. this is just about the best card you can get, period.
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[ECSNorway]

The problem is that saving up $1k or so would take me... most of a year, to get to the point where I'd be willing to blow it on a PC.

My current desktop system runs what I need, it just doesn't quite have the video muscle, so this is all I really plan to spend.
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