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Old May 09, 2005, 09:03 PM // 21:03   #1
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Cool Which video card do i need??

ok here is my system specs

2.6 gigherts cpu
768 meg of ram
and the horrid 82845g grapics

ok my computer only has pci slot and im wanting a vid card that will run this game good anyone out there know which pci card will work best my price range is 70 to 150
thanks
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Old May 09, 2005, 09:10 PM // 21:10   #2
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No AGP?

Ouch... idk.

My best bet would be Radeon 7000.
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Old May 09, 2005, 09:15 PM // 21:15   #3
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i found a gefore fx 5200 for 99 is that good enough and if so how much quality will i have to sacrifice?
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Old May 09, 2005, 09:24 PM // 21:24   #4
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Not a ton, you wont' get all reflections+hi res mode, but you can play a decent game on that card. Your system ram will help support you. I have that card in the rig I built for my GF and it runs HL2 pretty darn well, (it's OC'd a tiny bit ). Oh and try to get one with an active cooler (instead of just a heatsink).

EDIT: I'm very sorry I did not read the whole post. PCI only? I'm really not sure what kind of quality you are gonna get. Are you sure? you have a board that supports a 2.6 Pentium and has 768 system mem, with no AGP...that's odd.

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Old May 09, 2005, 11:21 PM // 23:21   #5
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yea i looked in the computer only white slots no brown so i guess i cant play ?
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Old May 09, 2005, 11:26 PM // 23:26   #6
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I have a PCI slot, and i recently upgraded to this for 100.00
GFX 5700
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Old May 09, 2005, 11:31 PM // 23:31   #7
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how dose GW run on that one??
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Old May 10, 2005, 12:09 AM // 00:09   #8
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I'm sure Guild Wars will run really well on a Geforce FX 5700 even if it is PCI. I suggest you buy it, you will get a good experience out of that.
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Old May 10, 2005, 12:23 AM // 00:23   #9
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ok thanks that will be my card of choice thanks alot
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Old May 10, 2005, 12:42 AM // 00:42   #10
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Yep I actually run it on the overclocked version of that card (FX5700 ultra). I'm running it at 1280x1024 all details and it slows down only rarely. You'll have fun.

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