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Ragnarok0mega
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 Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 12:54 am Post subject: Best cheap graphics card? |
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allright everyone i got a question, im planning to play planeshift and UO for the most part, what would be the best and cheapest graphics card to get that would support these two adequitly? thanks much  |
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skurk
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| Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 1:20 am Post subject: |
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| I can't really comment on those games but if you're planning on gaming in linux I would go nvidia without question. |
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lbrtuk
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| If you don't care about having open/portable drivers or anything like that, you should probably just go for a cheapo nvidia FX5200. |
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Arainach
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| Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 3:04 am Post subject: |
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Go with a GeForce2 MX. Plenty of Power for everything prior to Doom3/Farcry (Even UT2004 is doable), and only $30 or 40 last I checked.
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troyboy162
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| before a mx or low end fx id say go with a older ti series card. i think the ti4600 is in the 50ish range these days and will run circles around the mx or fx5200. you just wont have directx 9 sopport. but the card will directx8 fast as heck and all of todays games are backwards compatable that i know of. loss a little eye candy for playable frame rates |
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Robin79
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| Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 7:03 am Post subject: |
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Real gamers use pci-e nvidia of course
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vonhelmet
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raven5
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| Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 1:49 pm Post subject: |
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| My nVidia GeForce FX5600 works great. |
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MrApples
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absolutely do not get an fx5200, if you want something that cheap go for a high end gf4, otherwise i would say a 5700le
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COiN3D
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| troyboy162 wrote: | | before a mx or low end fx id say go with a older ti series card. i think the ti4600 is in the 50ish range these days and will run circles around the mx or fx5200. you just wont have directx 9 sopport. but the card will directx8 fast as heck and all of todays games are backwards compatable that i know of. loss a little eye candy for playable frame rates |
Eh, I think he's a linux user, he doesn't care about DirectX.  |
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incabolocabus
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nvidia fx5200 works perfectly on both p4 and amd64, ignore the ignorant comments above. ut2004, americas army, enemy-territory, and doom are all completely playable and it only cost 50 bucks.
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Archangel1
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| incabolocabus wrote: | | nvidia fx5200 works perfectly on both p4 and amd64, ignore the ignorant comments above. ut2004, americas army, enemy-territory, and doom are all completely playable and it only cost 50 bucks. |
Did anyone say it wouldn't work on a P4 or AMD64?
Seriously, it's not that fast a card - I'd say stick with a GF4 Ti, or FX5700 if you want some more performance and are willing to pay a bit more.
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