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Re: How to tell the difference between video cards?

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Originally Posted by Coca-Cola (Post 3643161)

Other factors before you rush into buying a new card are DX10/when you will upgrade to Vista, of course, (major one!) and what you will be using this card for until you upgrade. I see that you don't spend a lot of money on your rig so since this card will be destined for a low end rig and only a low end rig, I don't see why you would spend that much money on a card. Honestly an X1600 or 6800GS should be where you're looking when it comes to cards. You can spend more but if you wont be swaping it into your DX10 PC, I really don't see the point in having a 7950GT in coupled with a crappy CPU with which it will die.

I am never upgrading to Vista. Too complicated for me and it doesn't support FH1.

My Belarc Advisor gives me this for my processor:

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2.20 gigahertz AMD Athlon 64

64 kilobyte primary memory cache

512 kilobyte secondary memory cache

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I personally have a 6800GS and won't even think of doing something so dumn, for my situation, as buy another DX9 card since I can run BF2 beautifully with everything at the highest it can go. Also if you need a little more juice out of it for another more demanding game such as say Oblivion you can overclock a 6800GS from 425Mhz to ~500Mhz easy but after that you're asking for artifacts, and the ram can go up to 1100Mhz very easily and can be push to about ~1200Mhz.

I don't know why, but I just have a fear when tampering with my computer in that way. I don't know how to safely clock it, how to clock it, or anything. I'm even scared to open the thing a little so I can clean it in fear of damaging something or not being able to put it back together.

Also, is that "smooth" BF2 on vBF2 or performance-demanding mods as well?

I'm hoping to upgrade to 2 gigs of RAM this summer. How fast will that load FH2? I've decided to get a professional to install my RAM anyway.

EDIT: I don't even know if I have AGP/PCI-E/PCI/whatever. Or whatever kind of motherboard I have I have not idea.

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Originally Posted by MrPink (Post 3643006)

H0w d0 j00 kn0wz th4t?

Xfire

Re: How to tell the difference between video cards?

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Originally Posted by foodmaniac2003 (Post 3643266)

EDIT: I don't even know if I have AGP/PCI-E/PCI/whatever. Or whatever kind of motherboard I have I have not idea.

Food, you need to know that before you order anything. Shame on you young foodie. =P Time to crack open that tower...
http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/coold...s-pci-card.jpg

Now would you look at these boobies. :eek:

http://www.galapagos.org/photos/Imag...es.hansliu.jpg

Re: How to tell the difference between video cards?

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Will my Belarc tell me anything? I still don't want to open my case...

Re: How to tell the difference between video cards?

Nope, but it will tell you who made your mother board and its model#. Search it, then you could probably get a picture. Even still, You HAVE to open it up. You have to blow all of the dust out of there from time to time. Bring a flash light with you on the way and see what slot you have. You dont want to go do a whole bunch of research, get the wrong card, wait patiently, the day arrives and the card wont fit, worse yet you break something in there trying to fit a squares into circles. Dont be afraid to open the case!!!

Re: How to tell the difference between video cards?

http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

this programm will show you what cpu mainboard etc you got , so we can tell if you got agp or pci e .

anyway ATI x1950pro is the best deal out there at the moment , its out on agp and pci e , BF2 will run at max settings with AA and AF , as it will any other game out there at the moment , and isnt expensive at all .

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814102061

$155 on newegg , good time to upgrade .

you can get a tad cheaper for like $100 a x1650pro , it will almost run BF2 at max settings , i say almost , as you wont be able to use AA and AF at max , and expect a slowdown here and there ... so i guess if we assume FH2 will be a bit more demanding its safe to go with a x1950pro .

to give you an idea , i bought my x800xt 2 years ago for $470 , in 3dmark05 ( one of the more popular benchmarks ) it got 6000 points , i am able to run BF2 and any mod max settings , x1950pro now for $150 gets 10000 points in the same benchmark , and then you have to know the "high end" cards go for $500-600 still , while no game needs it at the moment , since you will be fine with a $200 card ( for example x1950xt ).

Re: How to tell the difference between video cards?

Good news, I have an X1550, which is basically the same chip as the X1300. FH2 should run good on your PC, in case you have a card thats for PCI-E.

My system atm:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ EE 65W @ 2,2Ghz
Asus M2N-E AM2 NF570 Ultra ATX
Kingston 2048MB 667MHz DDR2 NON-ECC
Connect3D X1550 256mb

Re: How to tell the difference between video cards?

The 512MB X1300 is fine for FH2 - my brother (an FH2 betatester) has one with his Athlon 64 Processor 3700+, 1GB DDR RAM machine and can play smoothly on reasonably high graphics (i.e. I can't remember if all settings are on high only that none of them are on low :p)

Re: How to tell the difference between video cards?

FH2 works reasonably on all highest details on Asus' GeForce EN7900GT TOP together with PC-3200 2 GB of RAM in Dual Channel and AMD x64 X2 4800+ CPU.

Re: How to tell the difference between video cards?

Take a look at this site:
http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics.html

You can compare every available VGA card, CPU, HDD etc. against each other.

Re: How to tell the difference between video cards?

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Originally Posted by Polska (Post 3643249)

I'd personally stick away from AGP cards...

I I I'm dumb :P
I didn't even see that it was AGP since I was searching in the PCI-E section then I searched 6800GS and I thought that it would refine my search within that section but alas newegg is not setup like that. :(
Thanks for pointing that out Polska.

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Originally Posted by Stefan F (Post 3643728)

anyway ATI x1950pro is the best deal out there at the moment , its out on agp and pci e , BF2 will run at max settings with AA and AF , as it will any other game out there at the moment , and isnt expensive at all .

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814102061

I'd listen to this man.

And food what are your reservations about opening your case. Just take out the power cables or any others which are connected to the wall. Take off the screws and voila...just don't touch anything atm.

What I do to replace my graphics card or for cleaning is you do all the above steps then put your two hand on a metal part of the case so that you are grounded and if you're really anal retentive, you can get a wrist grounder then you replace your gear and for anything of worth put them in anti-static bags.