upgrading video card

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knexkid

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Hi. I have a decent computer with a gig of ram bla bla bla. I have an ATI radeon 9000 with i beleive 128 megs of ram. My bro says i should get a new graphics card. I think it is just fine. he wants me to get it becuase of an upcomeing lan party that will involve Half life 2 and Battle field 2. is it really neccasary? if anything, i would think i would need to upgrade my 1.7 Gigherts proscessor. Thanks
I guess i should add, i would be spending $210 on a new card. thats how much i got to blow right now. thanks
 
what kind of processor do you have? you mentioned it was 1.7ghz but what kind is it? i personally think you might want to look at a different video card, especially if you are playing those kind of games...but you might want to wait till some others chime in... for that price range and those games i would recommend a 6600GT, that way you might even have a little money left over, to buy some gas or something:)
 
Well, If you're going to be doing some HL2, I would get a new card. That processor should do fine as long as you've got a good card. Look at maybe a 6600GT. http://tinyurl.com/7agdm Some of them have the mem running at 900MHz, others at 1GHz. Go for the 1GHz.

Aw, you beat me;)
 
battlefield 2 doesn't support the 9000, I belive it's 9500 and up for ati cards.(fx5200 and up for nvidia, no geforce 4's supported). For $210 you can get a vanilla 6800 which is almost overkill for your system.
 
penguinrusty said:
For some reason, half-life 2 hates the gForce card archetecture.
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I dont quite agree. While it is true that ati cards do better then nvidia card in general with HL2 that dont mean you cant play well with a nvidia card. I have a nvidia card and I never have lag on the highest settings for the game.
 
For some reason, half-life 2 hates the gForce card archetecture.
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HL2 isnt aware of the GeForce architecture... it deals with DirectX and DirectX deals with drivers and the drivers are aware of the architecture. The reason why nVidia cards dont do so well on DirectX9 games (DirectX8 was a different story) is because nvidia cards arent able to efficiently execute shader instructions in DX9 mode. The same applies for Ati cards trying to work in an OpenGL environment
 
Even though HL2 doesnt like geforce, it should be fine, right. not that it makes a whole lot of difference?
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As long as its not a GeForceFX series card then you'll be fine HL2-wise
 
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