Video Card Upgrade

[cre8]

Well it is that time of the year for me to upgrade my computer.It'll go with my current set up:
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ @ 2.6
OCZ EL Platinum Revision 2 1GB(upgrading to 2gb mushkin)
6600GT
DFI LP UT NF4 Ultra-D
Thermatake SilentPower 480W PSU
I want something that'll handle BF2 at high settings and play of the new games coming out this year atleast in med settings.I will take either ATI or Nvidia.

[Skippman]

Budget's going to be your big concern. I'm running a X850XT Sapphire Radeon and it'll do BF2 at 1920x1200 w/ everything but FSAA turned on with no problems. You should be able to get that card for a fairly reasonable price.

[kenc51]

What is your budget?

[cre8]

er that's what I forgot I got $400 budget

[kenc51]

er that's what I forgot I got $400 budget

easy X1900XT
http://forums.legitreviews.com/viewtopic.php?t=5957

Thanx to Pengwin for the find ;)

[cre8]

That's a sexy card

[Pengwin]

er that's what I forgot I got $400 budget

easy X1900XT
http://forums.legitreviews.com/viewtopic.php?t=5957

Thanx to Pengwin for the find ;)

you are welcome, BUT.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814161014

The HIS tech IceQ 3 cooler.

[Strid3r-]

I don't really know why you are upgrading if the sole purpose is for BF2...

I used to have a 6600Gt before I got this 7600GS and I could run BF2 at a pretty high resolution, high detail (maybe max), and it was pretty lag free. Now the 7600GS, which I have now so that I can get a second and run silent SLI (cause I want a quiet computer), alone runs BF2 wonderfully. You don't need to drop $400 if you don't have to. If you really do you can't go wrong with the 1900 as mentioned above or you could get a mid-high end nVidia card and SLI two of them. Granted I shoulda looked at your mobo first...

[Pengwin]

hes right save ur 400 bucks for DX10

[Imakeholesinu]

If you're really serious about an upgrade, sell that 6600 on EBay, and use some of that 400 to purchase something in the 7600 range if you are that desperate. If not, just wait for DX10.

[SAMSAMHA]

man, for 400, I guess, you can get an awesome card, however, like other people, I would still suggest wait till dx10, but that maybe till the end of the year or early next year, if you can hold off for that long. If you can't, you can always buy 7900 cards, they are decent priced and good performer/cost ratio.

[cre8]

So the best thing is to wait for DX10 cards?

[Fantasma]

So the best thing is to wait for DX10 cards?

I think that yes it is. Why buy a DX9 high end card now (which won´t use new games dx10 features) when you can buy an high end DX10 card in 6 months which will last you more years of gaming?
Also, it´s said that the graphics performance difference will be high

[grunt]

Just got me an ASUS 7900GTX for 399. Was going to wait for DX10 and all that but DX10 is going to be with Vista and Vista isnt out, nor would I want it for at least a year or so after.

open boxed MSI 7900gtx for 399 @ the egg...

[Razorbacx]

I run BF2 on my 6800GT and my only limiting factor is ISP, which I'm not too impressed with at this time and moment. Been getting disconnected alot here as of late and it's starting to really piss me off.

I would personally wait until the current high end stuff started to become more reasonably priced and then look at upgrading some additional components of your pc with the extra money. Remember, it's not just the graphics card that makes that game run.

[werty316]

Its gonna be a long time before DX10 games are out. Buy a 7900GT or X1900XT or get a DX10 when they are out and spend a bit more even though there really won't be any DX10 games out.

[grunt]

open box msi 7900gtx or an open box xfx 7900gtx for 399 @ newegg.. got mine today and love it

[linkinparkks]

yeah i agree wit that.

[Sovereign]

Interesting...one of my friends has a 6600GT AGP and has to use Medium settings to not get laggy on a 3Mbit/384Kbit connection...must be a CPU/RAM bottleneck (Athlon XP 2600 @ 1.91GHz I think plus 1.25GB RAM single channel)