You know what amazes me...

bubba · Post by **bubba** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 7:47 am

you're lucky you have a 5200 to fall back on, curently running on board vid.

kenc51 · Post by **kenc51** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 8:02 am

some may think so....

Infact i'm now back running my main rig again

killswitch83 · Post by **killswitch83** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 5:07 pm

bubba wrote:you're lucky you have a 5200 to fall back on, curently running on board vid.

I feel your pain bubba, lol. I'm rocking the on-board video too, though I bet you have more shared mem than I do, lol (8MB here, not even close to being enough for me)

bubba · Post by **bubba** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 7:25 pm

this is the board I have now

http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_sp ... V&class=mb

running 256 of kingston 2700, and a 3.6 p4 560j

says its using 64mb for the vid, still sucks. the ol' letter to saint nick has a vid card on the list

oh, I know its agp, at the time I bought it I was planning on using my 5700ultra a little longer, then it died. oh well, so much for the low cost upgrade.

killswitch83 · Post by **killswitch83** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 8:17 pm

Personally, I would still go for PCI-E, especially if you do any sort of gaming, because of bunch of hi-performance cards (ie. 6800GT/Ultra, 7800GTX, etc) are heading that way if I'm correct. DFI would be a better fit in that case, but tends to like hi-performance memory too. Gaming rigs can get expensive, but if you're not really doing anything like that then the MSI board should be plenty, just beef up the video card

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Sovereign · Post by **Sovereign** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 9:03 pm

Of course gaming rigs are expensive, if you want a good one, that is. ROFL. "Cheap" gaming rigs = cheap games. Running HL2 at 640x480 at minimum settings just isn't the same, is it?

killswitch83 · Post by **killswitch83** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 9:05 pm

Not the same at all by any means Sovereign! It's gotta have AA enabled and all details on Max, running at high-res. HL2 just looks cheezy on low-res and low-detail to me.

Sovereign · Post by **Sovereign** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 9:14 pm

Doom 3 is the only game I know of that looks halfway decent at low settings, only because id Software tried to make it not suck on low end machines.

killswitch83 · Post by **killswitch83** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 9:17 pm

Probably programmed the game with a scalable graphics engine; they know they need the money to stay in business, and they're willing to gear it towards both the low-end and high-end system users. Not a bad thing if I say so myself, though the ulterior motives may make them look a little desperate, but what do I know, lol.