- Oct 2, 2001
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I enjoy playing games occassionaly, but I have been out of the loop for a while ..
I recently bought HL2, Farcry and Halo for the PC.
I was shocked to see that only Halo played on my PC (only 800x600 had acceptable frame rate).
HL2 and Farcry refused to play on my GF3 Ti200 (I have an AMD 2000+ CPU and an AGP motherboard and 512 MB RAM). [Ya, I did not read the specs on the game boxes as I snagged them at Circuit City and CompUsa for cheap.]
I knew I was behind the curve, but didn't know that my rig is almost obsolete.
I enjoy FPS and Flight Sims (like IL2, FS2004). I don't need to play at very high resolutions, but smooth framerates and good rendering at moderate resolutions are needed.
My budget is $200 ~ $230.
At this price point, the refurb X800 XT from ATI seems to have maximum bang for the buck (I have been reading these forums, you see ).
Should I go ahead, or are there any other AGP cards to consider? Do you guys think there is further possiblilty of price drops as the 7800 GT just came out (pushing the middle level cards lower in price)?
Help me come out of my cave!!
I recently bought HL2, Farcry and Halo for the PC.
I was shocked to see that only Halo played on my PC (only 800x600 had acceptable frame rate).
HL2 and Farcry refused to play on my GF3 Ti200 (I have an AMD 2000+ CPU and an AGP motherboard and 512 MB RAM). [Ya, I did not read the specs on the game boxes as I snagged them at Circuit City and CompUsa for cheap.]
I knew I was behind the curve, but didn't know that my rig is almost obsolete.
I enjoy FPS and Flight Sims (like IL2, FS2004). I don't need to play at very high resolutions, but smooth framerates and good rendering at moderate resolutions are needed.
My budget is $200 ~ $230.
At this price point, the refurb X800 XT from ATI seems to have maximum bang for the buck (I have been reading these forums, you see ).
Should I go ahead, or are there any other AGP cards to consider? Do you guys think there is further possiblilty of price drops as the 7800 GT just came out (pushing the middle level cards lower in price)?
Help me come out of my cave!!