Is this video card any good?

Technology and Gaming
#41

How’s a Radeon 4870 1GB fare in Source-y games?

#42

It’d run them well.

#43

Good, I got one in shipping right now.

#44

speaking of video cards…

My 512MB 7300GT is starting to … emm… get old.
I don’t have much money to spare, so I’m not looking for something worth hundreds of dollars.
I think for the same price I paid my 7300 few years ago I can probably get something much better now.
Any suggestions?

I got a Pentium D 2.8GHz CPU, 1GB RAM, … rest doesn’t matter I guess.
I need to get some more RAM, but that’s another story… my mobo only supports 2GB (2 slots x 1GB ), so I need to get rid of my 2 512MB sticks and get 2 1GB ones, bleh.

#45

Whats the price youre looking for.

Hey woah.
Just finished your post.

If you dont get a better CPU, getting a new GPU wont help at all.
Its a bottleneck, you see.

I have 2 hyperthreaded Pentium 3.06GHz CPUs, 4 GB RAM, and they cant keep up with my 7950 GT 512MB.

Dont waste money on a new GPU, it wont help.

#46

Yeah I’d also say updating that processor is more important right now.

I think Pentium D’s use the same sockets as intel core 2 duo’s, so your lucky there.
An Intel Core 2 duo E7400 will only set you back about a hundred bucks.

I’d say your better off with an entirely new pc though…

#47

Also, you want to be sure that the card will fit. It probably won’t be a problem, just something you want to be sure of before you buy a card. Video cards these days are getting closer to being described as “boxes” rather than chipsets, these days.

#48

Have to disagree with you. The 7300 is a really, really crappy card. The difference between a 7950 and a 7300 is huge. I had a 7300 and a 2.8 ghz pentium D (same as him) and I got >10 fps on portal. I upgraded to a Radeon 4670 and now I get close to 70.

#49

Are you talking a normal one or a gt here? Not that I know how much the difference is between those but it might be adequate.
Is it slower than an 6800GT?

And well I just recommend him to update to a new pc. 1 gig is very little, a pentium D ain’t exactly fantastic and neither is a 7300. And since his mobo only supports 2 gigs I recon it’s not quite high end either.

#50

Didn’t think making a new thread for my question would make sense.

Could someone please tell me how good or bad the following config is?

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3.00 GHz
Transcend 2 GB RAM
Palit (NVIDIA) GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB GDDR3 TC(Turbo Cache) 1GB
ASUS P5N73-AM Motherboard

and the general Logitech multimedia keyboard and mouse etc.

#51

it’s pretty decent, especially the cpu. You’ve got a lot of headroom in the CPU.

#52

thanks but i really didn’t get what you mean. Could you predict the performance of some games on it?

#53

What he means is those E8400 CPUs are known to be good overclockers.
Though the performance of your CPU makes you video card look a bit under matched. Those 9600GSO cards are basically just 9600GT cards redone. While for the time they were nice, they are showing age in newer games.

#54

9600 is old news. They’re the midrange of the 9 series cards which, like maxthelimit said, are showing their age.

#55

What are the cheapist Nividia Cards cost?

#56

Something like an Nvidia riva tnt2? With a whopping 32mb? I think you can get em for a few dollars. If you’re really looking for the cheapest.
Can’t exactly recommend that though.

If you’re really looking for a good, very cheap card from Nvidia, I’d say the 9800GT? You can get those for bout 90 dollars.

And by the way: FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. IT’S GORDON. WITH TWO O’S. NOT AN A.
FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

#57

Sorry about the signature, and are they good cards or crap, I run a Acer Aspire 5710 but I dunno if the card is built into my motherboard.

#58

I just picked up a Nvidia 9800 GTX+ on eBay for about $100 USD… Was that reasonable? Seems good as they were going for $180 new on Newegg and Amazon.

#59

Used?

#60

Cool, i didn’t know that. So, should i overclock my CPU or not, and if yes, how can i overclock it?

I’d like to add that i can play HL2: EP2 at an average fps of 55-65 through most of the game with all the highest settings, 16x AF and 2X AA. I checked the fps in-game using the ‘cl_showfps 1’ command.
I think it’s pretty OK for a gamer like me.

How well do you think Crysis or Warhead would play on my system? And what about BM?

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