PC or 360? - Page 2

guyladouche · #16 (**permalink**) 05-31-2007, 03:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Southparkxp101

i have a 512MB ATI video card around here ..... agp too i may just pop that sucker in

Newegg.com - ATI 100-437809 Radeon X1650PRO 512MB 128-bit GDDR2 AGP 4X/8X Video Card - Retail

Well, more important than the VRAM capacity is whether it has a good chipset. Given what you're describing, I'd bet you have either a x1300 series or a x1600 series card with Hypermemory--Hypermemory actually hurts gaming performance in games that could use more VRAM. With more than 512mb of system RAM installed, it is automatically enabled, and cannot be disabled (which is stupid in my opinion). Okay, hypermemory aside, a good chipset is, in my humble opinion, more important than more VRAM (for current games, that is).

However, I'd bet that the card you have will be better than on-board graphics performance.

EDIT--seems you edited your last post before I finished typing mine. Forget what I said about the hypermemory thing--doesn't matter if you've got the x1650pro

DB6150 · #17 (**permalink**) 05-31-2007, 03:09 AM

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Originally Posted by guyladouche

Well, more important that the VRAM capacity is whether it has a good chipset. Given what you're describing, I'd bet you have either a x1300 series or a x1600 series card with Hypermemory--Hypermemory actually hurts gaming performance in games that could use more VRAM. With more than 512mb of system RAM installed, it is automatically enabled, and cannot be disabled (which is stupid in my opinion). Okay, hypermemory aside, a good chipset is, in my humble opinion, more important than more VRAM (for current games, that is).

However, I'd bet that the card you have will be better than on-board graphics performance.

EDIT--seems you edited your last post before I finished typing mine. Forget what I said about the hypermemory thing--doesn't matter if you've got the x1650pro

yeah i had the worng cards...the card i described is in my dell and its pci x 61

sorry for the confusion

guyladouche · #18 (**permalink**) 05-31-2007, 03:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Southparkxp101

yeah i had the worng cards...the card i described is in my dell and its pci x 61

sorry for the confusion

No worries. Looks like the start of a great AGP system you've got going on there.

DB6150 · #19 (**permalink**) 05-31-2007, 03:12 AM

yep just going to wait till i pay the visa bill this month .... then i will order it on next months .... i dont like to have alot of money on one bill ......

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i edited a few things on here , because that video card i have is broken

so this is the one i will be getting

Newegg.com - SAPPHIRE 100577L-1 Radeon 9550 256MB 128-bit DDR AGP 4X/8X Video Card - Retail

and only one GB of ram for now .... will upgrade to 2 later

guyladouche · #20 (**permalink**) 05-31-2007, 08:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Southparkxp101

yep just going to wait till i pay the visa bill this month .... then i will order it on next months .... i dont like to have alot of money on one bill ......

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i edited a few things on here , because that video card i have is broken

so this is the one i will be getting

Newegg.com - SAPPHIRE 100577L-1 Radeon 9550 256MB 128-bit DDR AGP 4X/8X Video Card - Retail

and only one GB of ram for now .... will upgrade to 2 later

Ah, 9550 was the card I had before my x1950pro--it's probably one of the better previous-gen AGP cards--probably one of the more underrated cards, but it works really well--played BF2/2142 with no problems on medium settings. Not a bad card for now. Hope it works out well.

DB6150 · #21 (**permalink**) 05-31-2007, 08:38 PM

well the most graphics intense game i currently play is Halo and it uses 32MB mem

and i have another system with 1Gb of vd memory so i will be able to play next gen games on it .... this is just my new system that can play some games and do all my internet stuff.... the otherone is for Work only

Stubs24 · #22 (**permalink**) 05-31-2007, 10:34 PM

can you only run AGP cards? Cause i know some PCI-E cards that are a lot better than that and are about 50 bucks cheaper on NewEGG

-Matt

DB6150 · #23 (**permalink**) 05-31-2007, 10:50 PM

yes thats all i can run , because i am using an older motherboard to keep from using pc 6400 Mem

but if i find a pci one ill try to get it instead
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well this one has 4 mem slots and is reasonably price

Newegg.com - ECS NFORCE4M-A (V3.0) Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce4 4X ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail

Stubs24 · #24 (**permalink**) 06-08-2007, 01:46 AM

hey, if ur looking for a good video card i found an agp one on new egg that was way better than that one.

-Matt

DB6150 · #25 (**permalink**) 06-08-2007, 05:16 PM

i think i may go with PCI , but for now i cant do anything ...my Main computer just died (mobo, think it may have fried mem, processor, and cooling along with it) so i have to fix it first

Stubs24 · #26 (**permalink**) 06-11-2007, 02:35 AM

well, at least get a mobo with a pcie slot. AGP is out dated

-Matt

DB6150 · #27 (**permalink**) 06-17-2007, 11:00 PM

edit im going to put a a 4600+ in my dell and kinda upgrade it to its maximum capabilities ...... this will keep me from trashing a gb of ram

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