Graphics Card

Guest · Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 7:14 pm Post subject: Graphics Card

Hello All,

While i save for the mother of all systems i have rebuilt a old Dell Dimension with winxp, 512mb ram. Runs FS2002 reasonably well, but, i am considering one of these:

http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=262347&CatId=446

Cheap and cheerful and will it really improve the game play that much!?

RadarMan · Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 8:18 pm Post subject:

Very good for 2002, not to good for FS9.

Radar

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poo-poo · Guest

what bios version do you have????
and what kind of prossesor?
my old dell with a13 bios you could run a gig and a half with a slotadapter and a celron or up the pentium to 1.2
and you can shove 256mb low density sticks of ram in each slot, tho the front side buss is rather slow by todays standards.

poo-poo · Guest

oh ya i used a diamond stealth s80, the equvalent of the ati 9250, ran like a dream over the 32mb thing that was in it

piper_wichmon · Trainee Joined: Oct 16, 2006 Posts: 66 Location: KBOS

I'm not much an ATI fan... I'd go with something NVIDIA. But just make sure you disable your onboard graphics or the card won't work right.

Guest · Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 9:24 am Post subject:

The NVIDIA cards are a bit more expensive as per the one below, but you think this would be better?

http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=191902&CatId=2693

Also, can someone explain to me what the 128mb is. Is that the memory the card has, or the amount of RAM it sucks?!

RadarMan · Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 3:22 pm Post subject:

piper_wichmon · Trainee Joined: Oct 16, 2006 Posts: 66 Location: KBOS

The NVIDIA is better. It supports DirectX 9.0 whereas the ATI only supports DirectX 8.0.

If it was me, I would save my money and wait to get a card that supports DirectX 10. If you plan to get Vista anytime soon, I believe (I may be wrong) you will need something that supports DirectX 10. But, a lot of newer games will use DirectX 10. But, if you plan to stay with XP or whatever you have, I would get the NVIDIA.

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