urbanman2004
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i'm needing to know what would be the best graphics card to use to play GTA: Sandreas for the PC at full speed. any good advice is appreciated
the best graphics card
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Persephone
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GCFreak's advice is a good advice
Hexidecimal
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Jeeze, he wants to play GTA:SA not Quake 4.
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urbanman2004
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Hexidecimal said:
does quake 4 require a more enhanced graphics card then san andreas... ive never played the quake game
CKemu
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I could tell you to get two GeForce 7800s in SLI, that'd play plenty, but otherwise thats useless, whats your budget? Without budget info, I could tell you to get a GeForce FX5950u, it played San andreas just fine, but again pointless advice if you can't afford it.
The trick is to set a budget, and people can advise you as to what the most powerfull card you can get for that amount of money. Noting of course you need a decent amount of medium-fast RAM and a CPU thats not ancient russian IMB pc spec ;p
My Rig is about 18 months old:
AMD64 3200+ @ 2.23GHz
1024MB DDR RAM
GeForce FX5950u
winXP / winXP64
Runs games like UT2004, Doom3, San Andreas, Guild Wars just fine. Noting that Quake 4 is a hunk of crap and people that play it need lining up against a wall and shooting
The trick is to set a budget, and people can advise you as to what the most powerfull card you can get for that amount of money. Noting of course you need a decent amount of medium-fast RAM and a CPU thats not ancient russian IMB pc spec ;p
My Rig is about 18 months old:
AMD64 3200+ @ 2.23GHz
1024MB DDR RAM
GeForce FX5950u
winXP / winXP64
Runs games like UT2004, Doom3, San Andreas, Guild Wars just fine. Noting that Quake 4 is a hunk of crap and people that play it need lining up against a wall and shooting
Hexidecimal
Emutalk Bounty Hunter.
Quake 4. Is Awesome.
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urbanman2004
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budget
$200 dollars is my budget
$200 dollars is my budget
arnalion
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CKemu said:I could tell you to get two GeForce 7800s in SLI, that'd play plenty, but otherwise thats useless, whats your budget? Without budget info, I could tell you to get a GeForce FX5950u, it played San andreas just fine, but again pointless advice if you can't afford it.
The trick is to set a budget, and people can advise you as to what the most powerfull card you can get for that amount of money. Noting of course you need a decent amount of medium-fast RAM and a CPU thats not ancient russian IMB pc spec ;p
My Rig is about 18 months old:
AMD64 3200+ @ 2.23GHz
1024MB DDR RAM
GeForce FX5950u
winXP / winXP64
Runs games like UT2004, Doom3, San Andreas, Guild Wars just fine. Noting that Quake 4 is a hunk of crap and people that play it need lining up against a wall and shooting
The Geforce FX 5xxx series is crap, it's nvidias biggest misstake.
What kind of card do you need? AGP or PCI Express?
I can suggest:
Ati X800GTO (if it's pci-e)
Ati X800GT (if it's pci-e)
Nvidia 6800nu (if it's agp)
Nvidia 6600GT (if it's pci-e, agp)
These cards are a little cheaper than 7800GTX and X1800XT ^^
Hawq
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The fx5900 wasnt too bad (good punch for the price), I still use one now actually & its fine for most things, though Doom 3 makes it overheat a little (partly down to the crap case I have though) a 6600gt would be nice & a hell of a lot better though & I doubt anyone could reccomend the fx 5xxx series anymore with the 6600gt comin down in price so much
arnalion
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GCFreak said:
Yeah the MX, but a Geforce ti4200 can be compared with a FX 5600Ultra and a ti4600 would probably kick a 5600Ultra (a ti4800 can be compared with 5800ultra). If you compare Nvidia's FX 5xxx series with ati's 9xxx series... i must say that nvidia lost that generations war.
Nope the X1800XT is not released yet but it would be soon.
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Either way, I would not recommend anything above 6600 GT or maybe 6800 GT for the geforce, as it is enough to play any of today's games with reasonable speed.