Graphics Cards of all kinds

2006-06-16 13:17:46

#1

Des.Kmal: Member; +917|6910|Atlanta, Georgia, USA

How are these graphic cards?

NVIDIA GeForce 7300LE, w/ TurboCache (Wtf? What is the MB in this?)

128MB ATi Radeon X300

512MB NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS, TV-Out and 2 DVI

Like... rate them /10 with 2 GB of ram. Thanks, and +1 for all rated and constructive responses.

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2006-06-16 13:28:23

#2

King_County_Downy: shitfaced; +2,791|6889|Seattle

Anything that says turbo is a winner in my book 10/10
128MB meh 2/10
512MB sounds good stuff. 9/10

Sober enough to know what I'm doing, drunk enough to really enjoy doing it

2006-06-16 13:30:37

#3

coldtoast: Member; +12|6910|uk

i just got rid of my x300, not very good... tho u can get them dirt cheap on ebay probly 10-20 $ us

2006-06-16 13:31:02

#4

Trigger_Happy_92: Uses the TV missle too much; +394|6941

turbo chache sucks. get the 7600 whatever.

2006-06-16 13:33:01

#5

PuckMercury: 6 x 9 = 42; +298|6819|Portland, OR USA

I love my XFX 7800GT <shrug> Of course the 7900 wasn't an option at that time ... but as for ATI vs nVidia? nVidia wins every time.

2006-06-16 13:37:31

#6

Janus67: Tech God; +86|6887|Ohio, USA

puckmercury wrote:
I love my XFX 7800GT <shrug> Of course the 7900 wasn't an option at that time ... but as for ATI vs nVidia? nVidia wins every time.

not so much anymore.

@ OP - All of the cards that you brought up the only respectable one is the 7600GS, but don't expect any great performance from any of them.

2006-06-16 13:44:38

#7

Lucien: Fantasma Parastasie; +1,451|6945

Memory is the least important spec of a graphics card. Please do not rate a video card on the amount of memory it has.

128 mb to 256 will make a little difference in new games that use high quality textures. Heck, not even the source engine (HL2) benefits much from 128 to 256. 512 mb? very little improvement.

King county, Turbo cache means that the videocard uses your RAM as memory. therefore, it's anything BUT turbo. and it's a budget card anyway. It's crap, bin it.

ati x300? do you want to use Word or play BF2?

7600gs? that's a step in the right direction. Mediums/highs, highs if you're not used to constant 60+ fps, or mediums with AA/AF.

Puckmercury, please, don't be a fanboy.

The most important specs of a videocard are:

-clocks (memory, engine)
-Pixel Pipelines (8 = budget, 12 = semi-budget, 16 = good, 24 = current best)
-memory TYPE (gddr2/3, 128/256 bit bus)

Last edited by SargeV1.4 (2006-06-16 13:47:09)

2006-06-16 13:45:21

#8

Kung Jew: That one mod; +331|7037|Houston, TX

Don't let the numbers fool you on the Nvidia cards, the 7300LE is less powerful than the 6800 if I'm not mistaken. (I couldn't find specs on the 7600 GS. Found the GT, but no GS)

To compare:

GeForce Go 7300 Geforce 6800 GS

Memory Interface 64-bit 256-bit
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec) 5.6 35.2
Fill Rate (Gpixels/sec) 1.4 6.2
Vertices/Second (Millions) 260 600
Memory Data Rate (MHz) 700 1050
RAMDACs (MHz) 400 400

The 7600 GT and the 7800 and 7900 are all better steps in the right direction. I'm currently running 2 gigs of video on a 6800 and have very little lag or loading time.

*greedily eyes 4 gig upgrade, and 7 series Nvidia*

Someday.... for know I have to wait cause the missus just got another computer with only 1 gig and another 6800. It gets the upgrade first.

2006-06-16 13:50:39

#9

King_County_Downy: shitfaced; +2,791|6889|Seattle

SargeV1.4 wrote:
King county, Turbo cache means that the videocard uses your RAM as memory. therefore, it's anything BUT turbo. and it's a budget card anyway. It's crap, bin it.

Crap. I like the sound of "My new TwinTurbo, Supercharged, Quad-Carbed Video card" much better than all the other names. I'm an impulse shopper.

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2006-06-16 13:52:08

#10

PuckMercury: 6 x 9 = 42; +298|6819|Portland, OR USA

Memory size DOES matter. There are other more important factors, but if you have an insufficient memory size, your card will be spending time swapping out texture files it would much rather be spending rendering that missile coming at your face ...

2006-06-16 14:07:50

#11

Des.Kmal: Member; +917|6910|Atlanta, Georgia, USA

512MB NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS, TV-Out and 2 DVI with 1GB of RAM should play it on high settings. Right? I mean it is 512MB...

Last edited by Kmal1 (2006-06-16 14:09:26)

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2006-06-16 14:12:04

#12

Des.Kmal: Member; +917|6910|Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Operating System Genuine Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
Processor Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 524 w/HT Technology, 3.0GHz
Memory 1GB DDR2-533MHz dual channel SDRAM (2x512)
Hard Drive 80GB 7200 rpm SATA Hard Drive
Primary CD/DVD Drive 48x max. CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive (48x32x16x48x)
Graphics Card 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS, TV-Out and 2 DVI
Sound Card Integrated 5.1 sound with front audio ports

All that for 949.99$. I am asking for the graphics cards and stuff. So thank you guys.

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2006-06-16 16:15:00

#13

Kung Jew: That one mod; +331|7037|Houston, TX

Get another gig of vid if you can. Helps to load into the game faster. Runs smoother.

KJ

2006-06-16 20:21:39

#14

THA: im a fucking .....well not now; +609|7062|AUS, Canberra

http://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?id=30125

there your own thread.

2006-06-16 22:04:26

#15

Cybargs: Moderated; +2,285|7008

Kmal1 wrote:
Operating System Genuine Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
Processor Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 524 w/HT Technology, 3.0GHz
Memory 1GB DDR2-533MHz dual channel SDRAM (2x512)
Hard Drive 80GB 7200 rpm SATA Hard Drive
Primary CD/DVD Drive 48x max. CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive (48x32x16x48x)
Graphics Card 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS, TV-Out and 2 DVI
Sound Card Integrated 5.1 sound with front audio ports

All that for 949.99$. I am asking for the graphics cards and stuff. So thank you guys.

wow.. thats kinda expensive...

yeah the card is a good card. 1000usd for that comp? a bit pricy...

https://cache.www.gametracker.com/server_info/203.46.105.23:21300/b_350_20_692108_381007_FFFFFF_000000.png

2006-06-17 06:58:47

#16

Janus67: Tech God; +86|6887|Ohio, USA

I completely agree that is a bit pricy for outdated processor and RAM, that and it doesn't look like he gets a dvd burner either.

2006-06-17 07:03:32

#17

KingMchris: Member; +12|6834|London

for £250 , you can buy the best AGP Graphics card around mate
unless you are on PCI, i didn't read
but yeah try the NVIDIA Gainward 20 pipeline series

www.overclockers.co.uk
www.ebuyer.co.uk

2006-06-17 07:04:38

#18

Cybargs: Moderated; +2,285|7008

Janus67 wrote:
I completely agree that is a bit pricy for outdated processor and RAM, that and it doesn't look like he gets a dvd burner either.

damn straight, outdated ram and cpu are a bit pricey... i would rather get a dual core 930 and 2GB ddr2 800mhz ram(240 bucks only!)

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