Video Card Question

[Corleone]

Are these good cards? I'm buying them for $35 together.

ATI Radeon 9800 series 128 mb agp 15, and Ati radeon x1300 256 agp 30.

Sorry to take up an entire topic, its just I need to buy this in about an hour and wondering if these are worth $35.

[mjaa]

they suck

[Corleone]

No, the one I have now sucks.

I have th nvidea 440 on this machine.

64 mg of video ram....

[FarePak]

Whats your whole system specs atm?

[mjaa]

No, the one I have now sucks.

I have th nvidea 440 on this machine.

64 mg of video ram....

it surely does.

The others are better. But they aint good. They suck.

save your money and get another card for like 50 dollar insteed.

X19xx series for example.

Or buy a brand new hd 3650 for example.

[Corleone]

Whats your whole system specs atm?

Pentium 4 1.8 ghz
Nvidea 440 agp 64 mb
1 gig ram
Win XP SP2

Just a rig that I have until March when I'm finished moving.

[cloakster]

Honestly, with a P4 @ 1.8GHz, i doubt that anything will help your performance. I also don't see a point in getting two crappy AGP cards when you can just buy 1 better one.

[Maddolis]

Go for a Nvidia 8600 or better, IMO.
Try to get a graphics card with at least 512mb memory, 1gb would be awesome.

A few months ago (about a week before the economic crisis began) I picked up a 1gb 4850 for $200 AU- which was an awesome deal (equivalent power to a nvidia 9800gtx pretty much, except cheaper).

Basically anything you see that is 126mb will be crap nowadays, you'll come across the odd decent 256mb graphics card but recently its all about 512mb+

[Flyby]

I'd say that for your current system setup they are good cards, the reason being is with the higher end gpu's they need faster processors, and with that CPU of yours it would likely cause a bottleneck. Although my best advice would be to try and search for a new pc (with duel core cpu's atleast, and pci-express). If buying PC is a problem, then I'd just take the ATI 9800 series, since it would likely do far better then a x1300 (being one was built as a flagship card the other a budget card). Be sure that you know that with either of these cards that you are limited to early DX9 games (Half life 2, Doom 3, far cry, battlefield 2, and etc.,) and will have to turn down all the settings for the newer games out now (crysis, company of heroes, stalker, rainbow 6 vegas, unreal 3 , and etc.,).

As well try to find some extra memory for your PC, to get a bit more out of it.

[cloakster]

Go for a Nvidia 8600 or better, IMO.
Try to get a graphics card with at least 512mb memory, 1gb would be awesome.

A few months ago (about a week before the economic crisis began) I picked up a 1gb 4850 for $200 AU- which was an awesome deal (equivalent power to a nvidia 9800gtx pretty much, except cheaper).

Basically anything you see that is 126mb will be crap nowadays, you'll come across the odd decent 256mb graphics card but recently its all about 512mb+

Read his PC specs. There's no point in him buying a good video card when his CPU is going to be a huge bottleneck. An AGP card under $50 will do him good