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Universal Exports
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If you're thinking of buying a new graphics card, a good place to start is at Tom's Hardware.
There you can find lot's of info about different cards.
I'm planning on spending a smaller fortune on a Leadtek GeForce 6800GT 256. Lot's of new games are coming up that require good cards (like HL2, or Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory).
All of us must have some kind of expirence with different cards, what is your expirence with your own card? Feel free to tell all of us... 
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Gigs
Joined: Jan 19, 2004
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Always been an nVidia fan, though I won't be upgrading my graphics card until the Nforce 4 motherboards are out. (mmm pci-e sli  )
Currently using the 8x GeForce 4 ti4200 from Albatron.
Not a bad card, works with most modern games and doesn't lag cept on some fo the more intense games like Farcry.
Having an Xp3200 and a Gig of ram helps too I guess 
Most any highend card from either manufacturer is good though, not like you'll notice it being slow. |
p900 lover
Joined: Jan 08, 2004
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these thing are what allways confuse me, im goin to have a look at that web site and hope fully it will make things clearer 4 me, im not even sure what grafics card i have, ill have a look, all i know is that i piad a bomb on a sony pc last year, lol |
rrojas260
Joined: Dec 13, 2003
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I have a ATI 128mb radeon 9200 vivo, 8x and works fine with all games without lag
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nickorooster
Joined: Sep 28, 2004
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@ The guy above
What do you run them on, 800*600? . Try far-cry, doom 3 or Half-life 2. Good luck. Have to agree with your choice of brands tho. ATI all the way.
I was one of the lucky few that got a 9500 PRO (a slightly slower version of the 9700PRO) before ATI stopped producing them, as they cost too much to make . It's always been faithful, but these days there are some limits. Half-LIfe 2 will probably lag it up a bit, as doom 3 does on high detail settings.
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Jim
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I got an ATI 9700Pro and I can play with full graphics but sometimes it tends to lag with hardware sucking games, I might upgrade to a newer one
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shyam335
Joined: May 25, 2004
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@nickrooster did you try modding it to 9700 ? :-)
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nickorooster
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Hell yes. And it worked rather nicely. But got a bit hot . SO being the cheap-arse I am I reset it and everything is cool again. I love my mobo .
Actually, I have a question. I want to upgrade a component, but I'm not sure what my system's bottleneck is at the moment. Any advice? My PC is currently as follows:
Asus A7V8X-X
AMD XP2400+
512 DDR 2700 (333)
ATI RADEON 9500PRO
17" Generic CRT
80Gb Seagate Barracuda
CD-RW Drive
DVD Drive
So what should I upgrade? I was thinking another 512 meg stick of RAM (DDR 400 this time) or a processor upgrade? Ignore the crappy monitor 'cause that would be the most expensive to upgrade .
As a follow-up, where do you guys get your components? I was thinkng www.aria.co.uk, they sell OEM parts for cheap. Any experience with these guys? ANy better deals?
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ThreeX
Joined: Dec 21, 2002
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Right now: ATI 9800 Pro (P4 3,0 HT, 1Gb RAM)
but i think fan is going to die soon.. severe lags sometimes in NFS UG-2 Still under warranty so i will try to get latest tackle instead, even if it means spending some money in exchange.
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Universal Exports
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I don't think there's a reason to buy a pci card au the moment. The games don't use the new transfer rate (and probably wont do so for a while either). On top of that, buying a pci card would force me to buy a new motherboard as well.
It took me 10 minutes to get my 9800 pro sold today, lol! ;-)
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BlackBauer24
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Greetings all @ Universal Exports, i did'nt originally buy my Laptop to play games but its got an unimpressive sounding 32mb NVIDIA Geforce fx 5100 go graphics card incorporated in it. its a Toshiba Satellite P10-304 with Pentium 4, 2.66GHz processor plus hyper threading technology, 512mb DDR ram, so i was chuffed to bits when i found out i could play Doom 3 albeit in down graded to 800x600 resolution but with every thing turned up high quality (with a couple of exceptions) now i'm playing in AMAZING!!! Half Life 2 still only in 800x600 res, as 16:10 widescreen mode wont even start up! its a bit stuttery at times but plays so much better than Doom 3 with the settings turned up to high, so to all you guys with the mega graphics cards your gaming experiences must be awesome. cya
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Jim
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On 2004-11-19 14:49:05, ThreeX wrote:
Right now: ATI 9800 Pro (P4 3,0 HT, 1Gb RAM)
severe lags sometimes in NFS UG-2
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I have an 9700 (AMD 3000+, 1 Gb RAM ) and don't have any lags with graphics at full so there is a problem with the graphic card or the drivers
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Universal Exports
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They release new drivers all the time, therefor it's smart to make sure you've always got the latest...
I think you can find ATI drivers at www.ati.com
--EDIT--
More precisely from www.ati.com/support/driver.html
(hl2 automatically told me that my drivers were out of date and sent me to the update )
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Spawney
Joined: Sep 06, 2004
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On 2004-11-19 14:43:06, nickorooster wrote:
Hell yes. And it worked rather nicely. But got a bit hot . SO being the cheap-arse I am I reset it and everything is cool again. I love my mobo .
Actually, I have a question. I want to upgrade a component, but I'm not sure what my system's bottleneck is at the moment. Any advice? My PC is currently as follows:
Asus A7V8X-X
AMD XP2400+
512 DDR 2700 (333)
ATI RADEON 9500PRO
17" Generic CRT
80Gb Seagate Barracuda
CD-RW Drive
DVD Drive
So what should I upgrade? I was thinking another 512 meg stick of RAM (DDR 400 this time) or a processor upgrade? Ignore the crappy monitor 'cause that would be the most expensive to upgrade .
As a follow-up, where do you guys get your components? I was thinkng http://www.aria.co.uk, they sell OEM parts for cheap. Any experience with these guys? ANy better deals?
Nick
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You should do the Ram, thats whats slowing you down. I have a 2400+ and have overclocked it to Xp 3200+ specs.
As for components. http://www.ebuyer.co.uk | http://www.dabs.com | http://www.overclockers.co.uk | an' good 'ole ebay|
How much would i give for an SLi enabled motherboard and 2 x Geforce 680 GT's 
Dream RIg:
AMD Athlon FX55 ( £580 )
2 x 74GB 10,000RPM SATA 8MB Cache GDD (£232)
Gigabyte K8NXP-9 nForce4 Ultra PCI-E (£150)
Watercooling RIg
Leadtek GeForce 6800 GT 256MB DDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) (£710)
OCZ 1GB (2x512MB) PC4400 Dual Channel Gold Series Limited Edition EL-DDR CAS3.0 (£264)
Tagan TG420-UO2 420W I-XEYE PSU (£65)
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k_weckx
Joined: Nov 04, 2003
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this is my computer, bought it six months ago... works fine with all games i played...
Dimension 8300 Standard Features: Intel® 875 P chipset
Uitgerust met Microsoft® Windows® XP operating system
Intel® Pentium® 4 processors met 800MHz system bus
Geïntegreerd Intel 10/100 Pro Netwerk kaart
Dual Channel 400MHz DDR geheugen
Midnight grey mini-tower: 8 USB 2.0 ports, 4 PCI slots , AGP 8x slot
Dimension Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® XP Home (NL)
Services: 1 jaar European Collect and Return (-EUR - 180,29 EUR)
Dimension Processor: Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor HT Technologie 3.0GHz/ 800MHz FSB & 1MB cache
Dimension Geheugen: 512MB Dual Channel DDR [2x256MB]
Dimension Harde Schijven: 120GB Serial ATA [7200rpm met 8MB DataBurstTM cache]
Floppy disk drive / USB Memory Key: 3.5" 1.44MB floppy drive (+ EUR 30,25 EUR)
Dimension Grafische Kaart: 128MB ATI Radeon 9800 Pro DVI, TV-Out via S-Video & Dual monitor support
Dimension Monitor: Dell 172FPB 17" Entry FlatPanel (no DVI) Dell Recommended (+ EUR 121,00 EUR)
Dimension Optical drives: 8x DVD+R/RW (DVD Rewriter) & 16x DVD-ROM
Dimension Speakers: Dell ADA 425 Stereo Speakers (2 Speakers + 1 subwoofer)
Dimension Geluidskaart: Geïntegreerde geluidskaart
Dell Picture studio: Paint Shop Pro 7.06 (trial version) & Image Expert (trial version)
Dimension Modem: Geen
Dimension Keyboards: Slimline BE PS/2 Keyboard (Azerty België)
Dimension Muis: Dell Optical Wheel USB muis (+ EUR 12,10 EUR)
Systeemdocumentatie: Engelstalige systeemdocumentatie
Dimension Software: Microsoft® Works 7.0
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