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Hi I am trying to play Call of Duty 2 on my Integrated ATI Radeon Xpress 200 lol and it is just horrible. Therefore, I am going to buy a new video card, but not a high end one because I'll be getting a laptop soon with a good video card. I'm looking at under $30 range, but $32 or something will be fine.
I found two that I like, one is a MSI Radeon x1550 128MB onboard and 512MB hypermemory with 4 pixel pipelines, 350mhz clock speed, 64bit GDDR2 800mhz memory, and RAMDAC 400mhz. Its $18 and the features are
Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering
Avivo Video and Display Engine
3DC+ Advanced Texture Compression
Next-Generation HYPER Z Technology
the other is a MSI Geforce 7300LE 128MB and 512MB overclocked. 4 pixelpipelines, 450mhz clock speed, 64bit GDDR2 650 mhz memory, and RAMDAC 400mhz features are:
NVIDIA CineFX 4.0 Engine
NVIDIA ForceWare Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
NVIDIA nView Multi-Display Technology
NVIDIA Digital Vibrance Control 3.0 Technology
NVIDIA PureVideo Technology
first of all, do all Geforce 7 cards have intellisample 4.0 and Ultrashadow II like wikipedia says? Also, will any of these be able to play Call of Duty 2 on med-high settings? It seems like the x1550 would since it was released 1/2007.
it seems like the 7300LE is better since I've seen people play Crysis and CoD4 with it, but it has a heatsink and no fan, and so it uses up two PCIE slots and generates a lot of heat. the x1550 also looks pretty good since it can do AA and AF stuff, and ATI says it is good for high end gaming.
here are my comp. specs if you wana know, and I know they suck, that's why i'll be getting a laptop soon
Sempron 3400+
768MB ram
I know none of these two cards are really meant for gaming, but I'm only going to be needing it for a couple of months to play games like CoD2 and HL2:EP2
so if you guys don't like them, can you recommend me some under or around $30?
Hi I am trying to play Call of Duty 2 on my Integrated ATI Radeon Xpress 200 lol and it is just horrible. Therefore, I am going to buy a new video card, but not a high end one because I'll be getting a laptop soon with a good video card. I'm looking at under $30 range, but $32 or something will be fine.
I found two that I like, one is a MSI Radeon x1550 128MB onboard and 512MB hypermemory with 4 pixel pipelines, 350mhz clock speed, 64bit GDDR2 800mhz memory, and RAMDAC 400mhz. Its $18 and the features are
Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering
Avivo Video and Display Engine
3DC+ Advanced Texture Compression
Next-Generation HYPER Z Technology
the other is a MSI Geforce 7300LE 128MB and 512MB overclocked. 4 pixelpipelines, 450mhz clock speed, 64bit GDDR2 650 mhz memory, and RAMDAC 400mhz features are:
NVIDIA CineFX 4.0 Engine
NVIDIA ForceWare Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
NVIDIA nView Multi-Display Technology
NVIDIA Digital Vibrance Control 3.0 Technology
NVIDIA PureVideo Technology
first of all, do all Geforce 7 cards have intellisample 4.0 and Ultrashadow II like wikipedia says? Also, will any of these be able to play Call of Duty 2 on med-high settings? It seems like the x1550 would since it was released 1/2007.
it seems like the 7300LE is better since I've seen people play Crysis and CoD4 with it, but it has a heatsink and no fan, and so it uses up two PCIE slots and generates a lot of heat. the x1550 also looks pretty good since it can do AA and AF stuff, and ATI says it is good for high end gaming.
here are my comp. specs if you wana know, and I know they suck, that's why i'll be getting a laptop soon
Sempron 3400+
768MB ram
I know none of these two cards are really meant for gaming, but I'm only going to be needing it for a couple of months to play games like CoD2 and HL2:EP2
so if you guys don't like them, can you recommend me some under or around $30?
