looking for something that's good for a good price any suggestions?

1/13/2006 3:08:54 PM

Quad SLI GeForce 7800 GTX 512's

Probably gonna be your cheapest solution

1/13/2006 3:15:37 PM

On a more serious note...
The eVGA GeForce 7800 GT 256MB is your best choice for under $300. I'm running one on an eVGA mobo with 1Gig of Corsair XMS Ram (upgrading to 2Gig soon) and an Athlon 64 3700 and it'll smoke any game on high settings like a phat doobie.

1/13/2006 3:41:53 PM

what about the ati radeon 9700 256mb

1/13/2006 6:06:30 PM

What are your pc's specs?

1/13/2006 6:41:39 PM

What do you want to do with this card? What's your max budget?

1/13/2006 11:28:28 PM

Is the 7800GS ever going to be released?

1/14/2006 12:36:17 AM

Heres a x850xt for $210 after rebate.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102505&ATT=14-102-505&CMP=OTC-pr1c3grabb3r

1/14/2006 1:38:10 AM

Just purchased a x800GTO2 for 180 after rebate from newegg. The sapphire gtos will reflash to a x850XT pe. Yesssssss.

1/14/2006 2:03:13 PM

grilled cheese, i think

1/14/2006 3:54:06 PM

get a 6800 and unlock the additional pipelines

1/14/2006 3:55:13 PM

I'd laught if he went out and bought a x850xt and it turns out he's running a pIII.

1/15/2006 3:37:21 PM

how would this be with BF2:


nvidia geforce fx 5200 128mb ddr sdram

1/18/2006 2:40:39 PM

that card sucks, and will crumble under the pressure of BF2.

since it looks like you're going the cheap route (nothing wrong with that), check out this deal:
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=ATI9600XT-128M-D&sourceid=qIrAQ86hoUpTAknDZF7p&cm_ven=CJ&cm_pla=0038388580&cm_ite=ATI9600XT-128M-D

ATI Radeon 9600XT 128MB DDR 8x AGP Video Card w/DVI, TV for ~$60

use coupon code COUPONCABIN

edit: nm, out of stock. still, don't buy the 5200 if you want to play BF2 at more than 10fps.

[Edited on January 18, 2006 at 3:16 PM. Reason : out of stock]

1/18/2006 3:15:52 PM

soemone just offered this to me on here.


I will look into what you said

1/18/2006 7:29:55 PM

you sure are going thru a lot of trouble just to play BF2, good game tho...im running the ATI 9600XT, and it works great...i have it set on 1024 resolution and med on all the other graphics settings
not to hijack the thread, but whats a good program to check the FPS?

1/18/2006 11:49:46 PM

no i need to get a new one anyway....

1/19/2006 12:06:07 AM

good luck with it, u wont go wrong with the 9600...unless you need a PCI-E

1/19/2006 12:20:02 AM

as nice as ATI cards are...i have to disreccomend them based on their crappy Control Center. it un-necessarily runs on .Net framework. nVidia's is fast, simple, resource-friendly. plus, the Geforce 7800 is an insanely fast card in a ONE slot solution unlike most of ATI's that i see.

1/19/2006 1:50:25 PM

the new control center does suck nuts, but after i realized it, i reverted back to one of the older versions

1/19/2006 2:00:11 PM

u dont need to install that control center bull. just install the stand-alone driver. i used to do that with my 9600xt all the time and had no issues.

1/19/2006 5:31:10 PM

Same here, I've also got a Sapphire Radeon 9800Pro system without that control center crap installed and it is a very solid system for BF2... can get the card for ~$150-200 new.

1/20/2006 6:44:47 AM