cooliscool said:
Uh, cards of that caliber are no where near required for N64 emulation. Like rcgamer said, an FX 5200 is much more than sufficient.
Oh I know. I said the cards I did for two reasons:
1) as the others said, he may want to play other games - even farcry need a good card.
2) after being conned with the Geforce 440 MX (which is really a GF2 with hypermemory, + minor tweaks) I will NOT ever reccomend another con card (Fx 5200) to anyone (Fx5200 is Dx9 capable in name only - any Dx9 benchmark or game is so slow (under 10 fps) as to be worthless. Also some games (HL2 for eg) refuse to acknowledge the fx5200's Dx9 'capability and will run in the Dx8 pathways.) Hence I reccomended Ati 9600 and up, and the Fx 5700 and up (includine the new gen cards - but be carefull again, some of those are 'con' cards - 64 oe 128 bit memory pathways when they should be 256 to supply those render pipelines!)
Another word - in Ati terms, an 'xt' version is better then an plain version (eg 9600 or 9600xt). In Nvidia terms, an xt (or le) version is slower.