Graphic card sux - I'm in trouble

2006-06-03 07:43:30

#1

Hacial: 404 - Not Found; +107|6911

My graphic card is nVidia GeForce 6600, I have 2 GB ram, AMD 64 3200+
So... If I want to run the game smooth I have to put all graphics to low or off because of my 6600. But if I buy new graphic card (7900gt?) I would have to buy a new power supply because this one is crappy one and doesn't have right cables and power for good graphic card. But if I buy both of those, I also have to buy better processor (AMD 64 X2 3800+?) because this one couldn't handle so good graphic card. And if I buy those, I have to buy new motherboard, what has support for X2 processors. That's almost a new computer! I have about 600 € (euro) but that's not enough for a new computer, and if it would be enough, I wouldn't want to spend all my money. What to do?

Edit: Btw this computer is not actually mine, so I couldn't steal anything from this computer, except RAM. Oh I almost forgot the configuration I was planning:

processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ boxed | 313.90 €
motherboard: Abit KN8 | 83.81 €
case: Lazer H-14 | 39 €
hard drive: Western Digital Caviar 160GB WD1600BB 2Mt cache | 75.90 €
DVD-drive: LG GDR-8164B beige DVD-ROM-drive,16X / 52X bulk | 22.90 €
graphic card: Asus GeForce 7900 GT | 311.30 €
power supply: Antec 550 W truecontrol | 59 €
monitor: BenQ FP91G+ | 287 €

Last edited by Hacial (2006-06-03 07:50:48)

2006-06-03 07:46:36

#2

0akleaves: Member; +183|6905|Newcastle UK

i have a 7600gt and everything runs fine check my sig for specs

You have to learn the rules of the game and then you have to play better than anyone else.

2006-06-03 08:13:03

#3

Cybargs: Moderated; +2,285|7008

no need for new cpu, not worth it... hell i run a 7900gt on a p4 3.0ghz (overclocked to 3.45 now) so just get a new psu and 7900gt, but i suggest u only overclock it to 530mhz core, and 1460mhz mem... it will run 570core for a week w/ no prob then it crashes a lot.. (locks up)

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2006-06-03 08:16:24

#4

coke: Aye up duck!; +440|7001|England. Stoke

You have have a better system than me, I on a 5700 ultra and I don't have to set everything to low or off to play the game smoothly, just almost everything.

2006-06-03 08:48:39

#5

Hacial: 404 - Not Found; +107|6911

Hmm okay I buy PSU (=power supply?) and 7900 GT, but before I buy PSU, how can I check if it's good enough for 7900 GT? (I know that my PSU is Bestec, and it's 300 W but nothing else. So how to know if it's good enough?)

2006-06-03 08:49:22

#6

0akleaves: Member; +183|6905|Newcastle UK

i had onboard gfx which i had to set evrything to low, i upgraed to a 7600gt and i still have the power supply from whe i bought it

You have to learn the rules of the game and then you have to play better than anyone else.

2006-06-03 09:07:33

#7

Hacial: 404 - Not Found; +107|6911

Evil-fruits|ST4R wrote:
i had onboard gfx which i had to set evrything to low, i upgraed to a 7600gt and i still have the power supply from whe i bought it

Umm yea but I heard that 7900 gt needs 6-pin cable or something... But I have PCI-E x16 I know that.

Last edited by Hacial (2006-06-03 09:16:42)

2006-06-03 09:54:04

#8

Cybargs: Moderated; +2,285|7008

yes it does, but you need a good branded 400 watt psu to run it safely. make sure the psu has a 6pin pci-e cable, it is different from normal 6pin cables btw

2006-06-03 21:46:31

#9

Hacial: 404 - Not Found; +107|6911

Hmm would this PSU be good? (Just look at the name of the PSU, it's finnish store)

The price ain't bad (80 €) and it has won PSU comparision in the local computer magazine. ("MikroBitti")

And here is Radeon X1800XT 512 MB version just for 268 € plus all shipping payments! Even after shipping payments the price still remains under 300 €! And it's the 512 MB version!

2006-06-03 21:47:59

#10

Cybargs: Moderated; +2,285|7008

yeah that one looks good, but i wont get a X1800XT, even though its 512mb doesnt help that much in graphics processing... i would still get the 7900gt

2006-06-03 22:07:27

#11

Hacial: 404 - Not Found; +107|6911

Here's 7900 GT 512 MB at it's lowest in germany. 294 €

And here's 7900 GT 256 MB version, price 256 €

Hmm hard to decide... I've heard that X1800XT is slightly better than 7900 GT... Don't know who to trust.

2006-06-03 22:36:15

#12

.ACB|_Cutthroat1: No place like 127.0.0.1; +76|6987|Gold Coast,QLD,Australia

the 7900gt would woop the x1800xt, def get the 512 gt

2006-06-03 22:51:20

#13

-101-InvaderZim: Member; +42|7135|Waikato, Aotearoa

Try the 7600GT.

*sigh* why does everybody automatically want the latest and greatest out there???
I mean dont get me wrong the 7800/7900 is an awesome card and I would give my right nut for 1, but if all you want to do is run BF2 smoothly on high settings then i think the 6800GT/7600GT would be a much better choice, and much more value for money (especially if you match the video cards and SLi them).
Try this:

Motherboard - Albatron K8 SLi
Processor - AMD 3500+/3700+ skt 939 single core
PSU - 450-500W
RAM - 1GB DDR 400Mhz
Video card - Matched 7600GT

The performance increase with the single core CPU and matched video cards is somewhere like 10-15% (dont quote me on it tho, i could be wrong), as compared to only 5% with dual core CPU and SLi 7900.

SLi is mainly designed for dual core processors (the idea being 1 video card per core - hence the small increase in performance).

My 2 cents

Last edited by -101-InvaderZim (2006-06-03 23:01:40)

2006-06-03 23:27:29

#14

Hacial: 404 - Not Found; +107|6911

.ACB|_Cutthroat1 wrote:
the 7900gt would woop the x1800xt, def get the 512 gt

I'm not american, not english, I'm finnish so what does "woop" mean? And by 512 do you mean 7900 GT 512 or x1800xt 512?

2006-06-04 00:11:03

#15

-=AudigyXi=-: Member; +18|6948

Hacial wrote:
.ACB|_Cutthroat1 wrote:
the 7900gt would woop the x1800xt, def get the 512 gt
I'm not american, not english, I'm finnish so what does "woop" mean? And by 512 do you mean 7900 GT 512 or x1800xt 512?

whoop basically means over power, .....the better choice.And yes he meant the 7900gt with 512mb would....wait for it...."whoop" there it is lol the x1800

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