Curse

Darkmane · Mar 29, 2005, 07:16 PM // 19:16

Well if you win your contest, just get the video card I suggested up towards the top there and you should be fine.

Sin · Apr 01, 2005, 01:11 PM // 13:11

For what it's worth I run GW on a 1.3 ghz (370 Socket Celeron. 133 FSB) with 512 ram and a pci nvidia 5200fx w/128 vid ram, windows 98SE. Sure I play at 1024x768 and shadows are off, however I suffer no game lag. Never had a problem with my 5200fx card. From what you are describing with your video, graphics wise I am in heaven.

What I am getting at is, hell I have half the computer you have with a video card of ill reputation in the archaic windows 98SE and suffer no lag. So strongly consider just getting a video card. If you got a agp slot, it'll be less than pci. Also, you might check to see if a higher end one will work in your agp slot as it might be the one thing you put in the new computer, one part of the configuration you arleady have purchased.

Cheers

John TrickKnee · Apr 07, 2005, 11:41 PM // 23:41

RDRAM is almost 4x the price of DDR. Less than fair.

Loviatar · Apr 07, 2005, 11:48 PM // 23:48

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Originally Posted by John TrickKnee

RDRAM is almost 4x the price of DDR. Less than fair.

is it safe to assume that you are stuck with rdram?

i just bought a gig of ram a short time ago and saw an add for 512 mb 3200 ram for 19 dollars today

ouch

John TrickKnee · Apr 08, 2005, 12:04 AM // 00:04

RDRAM has to be added in pairs. A pair of 128mb RDRAM is $100.00 USD. The math hurts. It hurts so bad.

Roken · Apr 09, 2005, 09:06 PM // 21:06

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Originally Posted by Enix

Since you are using onboard graphics, a ram upgrade may help you. Onboard video uses System memory for storing textures and such for graphics. One thing you can try is watching your hard drive indicator light and see if it goes crazy when you lag out like that - that means that it is offloading memory onto the swapfile/virtual memory (on the HD). If it does, then I would say definatly go for at LEAST another 256. Still though, an upgraded video card will help you a LOT more than more system memory. I would plan on spending at least $150 on something that would do the game any justice. And STAY AWAY FROM THE NVIDIA 5### FX LINE.

(In bold)
And why is that? Im 20 minutes away from heading to BestBuy and buying the 5500

Darkmane · Apr 09, 2005, 09:14 PM // 21:14

Without getting into a heated discussion about what is wrong with the 5xxx line of Nvidia cards. Here is the reason I think most people had problems.

The 5xxx line of cards came out needing power requirements that most people with older systems just didn't have. Or they had crappy power supplies (IMO) of course. So you had all these people complaining that the video card was crappy because they had problems. The power supply on the dell should be good enough to power your video card. Not to mention it is a great brand (pc power and cooling)

My 2cents about the 5xxx line of cards again.