Should I Upgrade My Graphics Card?

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10-27-2003, 05:29 PM
mentalfusion420

Hey every one i was wondering if i should upgrade my graphics card i am currently running a Geforce4 ti 4200se 128mb 4x agp i wanted to upgrade to the new Geforce FX 5700 ultra 256mb 8x agp is it worth the upgrade or should i wait for the next nvidia or ati mid-range/mainstream card? i want to be able to play half-life 2 and doom 3 flawless with my system tell me what you all think?
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AMD AthlonXP 1600+ @1.4ghz
768mb DDR PC2100
VisionTek nVidia Geforce4 Ti 4200se 128mb
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10-27-2003, 05:42 PM
k-liteuserintheworld

i would say your graphics card should handle those two games, I would be more inclined to upgrade the processor
10-27-2003, 05:52 PM
cwctv

So would I ,I don't know that board either so check it can handle a 8x mine doesn't only 4x or you will waste your money.
10-27-2003, 07:32 PM
mentalfusion420

well i plan to upgrade to a nForce2 Abit NF7-S very soon which has 8x agp and support for 400fsb athlonxps but i just dont know if i should upgrade my gfx or cpu first
10-27-2003, 08:20 PM
DarthInsinuate

if you do upgrade your graphics then you'll have the nice DX9 features

if you upgrade your motherboard to the 400mhz FSB you're talking about, you'll run into a bottleneck with your RAM which is 266mhz
10-28-2003, 02:40 AM
bigdawgfoxx

Yeah ur CPU will hold u back and Gcard. So i duno u need both but mainly cpu
10-28-2003, 12:17 PM
cwctv

I agreed with the others "soon" can be long or short in the short term go for a cpu in the long term wait for now buy all at once don't forget memory bottle neck thats more money needed.
10-28-2003, 03:29 PM
Wolfmight

Get a Radeon 9700 Pro atleast if possible. I know the 9500 pro 128mb is 3-4 times faster than the Nvidia FX 5200 128mb.
10-28-2003, 09:37 PM
mentalfusion420

STRICTLY NVIDIA i hate ati for numerous of reasons
10-28-2003, 09:39 PM
DarthInsinuate

Quote:

Originally posted by mentalfusion420@28 October 2003 - 21:37
STRICTLY NVIDIA i hate ati for numerous of reasons

have you read the Nvidia/ATI poll in this board somewhere? There's a lot of reasons for you to like ATI in it
10-28-2003, 09:45 PM
mentalfusion420

well its cool to see the two companies compete for the speed king crown but nvidia has always been great past present and it looks like it'll be great in the future i love there support and the drivers are awesome ati use to suck really bad but now they seem like they got their shyt togather but im stickin with GEFORCE
10-28-2003, 09:46 PM
ObLiViOuS_1.0

hey should i upgrade mine its a noname packaged in w/ my computer pos that is at 64mb
10-28-2003, 11:20 PM
abu_has_the_power

here's wat u need to do:
1. oc ur cpu, if ur not getting a new one
2. chill bout the vd card. it's fine. ocing the cpu, or buying a faster one will increase ur game speed exponentially