Author Topic: Graphics Card on a Budget ($180/£100) (Read 3723 times)

Admiral LSD · **Reply #40 on:** April 08, 2004, 01:07:37 pm

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Originally posted by kasperl
uhm, an0n,

if you don't have a rather recent mobo, you can forget about getting anything past a Radeon 7000.

I went out to buy an R9600 once, but then it turned out my bus voltage was wrong. grabbed a 9200, wich was supposed to run on my mobo, and got the same ****, went to the local computer/antique store and got a Radeon 7000. ah well, it runs FSO well enough....

You must have one hell of a crappy motherboard... My 9500 Pro worked perfectly fine in the 1X/2X AGP slot on my old 440BX Pentium II board (only time the AGP slot on it has ever been used).

kasperl · **Reply #41 on:** April 08, 2004, 01:09:24 pm

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Originally posted by an0n
.........Why?

this is gonna cost me my NW account, but for god's sake, read my posts.

your mobo probably won't support any newer card then a AGP2x. I have a P3 800 bought with 64MB SDRAM in the banks, so i think our comps are of comparable age. ergo, I don't expect your mobo to support the newest bus voltage. therefor, a new card probably won't work, and you end up spending approx. 30 quid on an Radeon 7000 that can just keep up with FSO, and can barely run CS with a lot of smoke grenades going of.

kasperl · **Reply #42 on:** April 08, 2004, 01:11:47 pm

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Originally posted by Admiral LSD

You must have one hell of a crappy motherboard... My 9500 Pro worked perfectly fine in the 1X/2X AGP slot on my old 440BX Pentium II board (only time the AGP slot on it has ever been used).

yeah, the mobo is ****ed up. that system is Packard Bell, store bought, nothing configured. but, it wasn't all budget parts, and the thing runs, even if it hasn't got enough slots compared to a modern board. and yeah, the voltage thingy suprised me too, but all the guys at the store said something along the lines of "off course, i should have thought about it!"

an0n · **Reply #43 on:** April 08, 2004, 01:19:19 pm

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Originally posted by kasperl
your mobo probably won't support any newer card then a AGP2x. I have a P3 800 bought with 64MB SDRAM in the banks, so i think our comps are of comparable age. ergo, I don't expect your mobo to support the newest bus voltage. therefor, a new card probably won't work, and you end up spending approx. 30 quid on an Radeon 7000 that can just keep up with FSO, and can barely run CS with a lot of smoke grenades going of.

Firstly, what you mean is: "Get a mobo that's compatible with the GFX card"

Secondly: I don't think it's possible to find a new motherboard that ISN'T compatible with pretty much any new graphics card.

Thirdly: I'm intending to get at least a 2.2Ghz processor, 1Gb or RAM and all kinda of other fancy **** that I'll never use.

Fourthly: If I'm planning on doing something as needlessly complicated as RAID'ing a million low-storage hard-drive together, do you really think I'd be so stupid as to not check all the **** I'm buying works together?

kasperl · **Reply #44 on:** April 08, 2004, 01:24:50 pm

uhm, you just said you were buying a GFX card BEFORE the mobo. ergo, i suggested to reverse that order.

an0n · **Reply #45 on:** April 08, 2004, 01:27:50 pm

And I said why?

I only really want to upgrade so I can play EVE and HL2. So it's better to find a GFX card that can handle it first, because I know pretty much any mobo will have the capacity to handle it.

As long as they work together, it doesn't matter which I get first. And in this case my priority is the graphics, so I'll get the card first and find a mobo to fit it later.

kasperl · **Reply #46 on:** April 08, 2004, 01:29:57 pm

so you are going to let your brand new vid card lie on the shelf?

ok.

an0n · **Reply #47 on:** April 08, 2004, 01:31:49 pm

Okay, I'll buy the board first and let that sit on a shelf till I can get the card

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ChronoReverse · **Reply #48 on:** April 08, 2004, 01:36:28 pm

As long as he doesn't have an AGP 1x slot, there won't be any problems.

an0n · **Reply #49 on:** April 08, 2004, 01:36:46 pm

ChronoReverse · **Reply #50 on:** April 08, 2004, 02:03:54 pm

IIRC

The problem with the AGP 1x slot is that it only allows 5V. None of the modern cards support that voltage.

So you need at least a 2x slot if you want to have a 9700 or a 9500.

The newer 9800 and 9600 dropped support for 2x and can only take 4x and 8x slots.

ATi card and AGP

AGP imnformation

AGP 3.0 is what the 9800 and 9600 supports.

an0n · **Reply #51 on:** April 08, 2004, 05:14:56 pm

Mwuahaha.

I just installed a £100 piece of auction software: http://www.321bid.com

I'm quite pleased with myself.

And the fact that it's all legal is a refreshing change from my usual methods of getting cash.

Odyssey · **Reply #52 on:** April 08, 2004, 05:31:34 pm

[color=cc9900]Does this mean you don't wuv me any more?

EDIT: I'm pretty sure that's not how you spell "Photography"

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an0n · **Reply #53 on:** April 08, 2004, 05:46:16 pm

I didn't do that.

It's the default catergories.

And I still love you, but to a diminished extent. Like a child who sided with the mother during the divorce.

kasperl · **Reply #54 on:** April 09, 2004, 03:20:32 am

you might wanna change that. it looks rather, stupid.

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