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Posted by: Death2BlueCheese
im afraid im gonna have to confiscate your testicles.

What are you, the Cyber police? lol.

Someone suggested me it and ive looked all over for it and found nothing. I refuse to look on google only because alot of sites I dont know about and dont trust come up, I have been ripped off many times on the internet buying things, so. I looked on Newegg and nothing came up. If anyone could be kind enough to link it for me thanks.
Sorry if it isnt really Halo related but it kind of is considering I want new Halo graphics ...
*Gets out text flaming resistant shield*

  • 03.14.2007 1:21 PM PDT

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Posted by: Iggwilv

*hands Kim a crowbar*
Here you will need this to help you get your foot out of the back of your throat, looks llike its in there pretty deep. And what is that on your face? Egg?! *hands Kim a washcloth*

It's old, dont bother. Whats your pricerange and slot? ex: $150 and AGP.

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9800 is fine for Halo, just not really anything else... At least not anything made in the last year or two.

  • 03.14.2007 1:28 PM PDT

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Posted by: Death2BlueCheese
im afraid im gonna have to confiscate your testicles.

What are you, the Cyber police? lol.

Well, you said it, 150 or below and I have AGP.

  • 03.14.2007 1:28 PM PDT
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Posted by: Anton P Nym
who says you have to be an ace to have fun?

Posted by: TUI_Obi_Wan
Stupid parents let their stupid children play games that are rated M when they should be playing Big Birds Spelling Adventures

Posted by: Kira Onime
Also the AR is actually good in CQB now and no longer a glorified baseball bat.

If you can find one, get an XFX Geforce 6800XT 256MB.

I got one off Newegg(currently missing from the site) for ~$100, and it runs Halo fine, along with SCDA and most other games.

  • 03.14.2007 1:32 PM PDT

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Posted by: Death2BlueCheese
im afraid im gonna have to confiscate your testicles.

What are you, the Cyber police? lol.

Read what I posted for the thread body...

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Posted by: Anton P Nym
who says you have to be an ace to have fun?

Posted by: TUI_Obi_Wan
Stupid parents let their stupid children play games that are rated M when they should be playing Big Birds Spelling Adventures

Posted by: Kira Onime
Also the AR is actually good in CQB now and no longer a glorified baseball bat.

I did. :/

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Actually, that's a very good video card :)

But of course, I live behind some of you guys, so that's just me.

  • 03.14.2007 2:22 PM PDT
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X-Fire: new420

make sure you have a good enough power supply for whatever you decide to get

  • 03.14.2007 3:59 PM PDT

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Posted by: Iggwilv

*hands Kim a crowbar*
Here you will need this to help you get your foot out of the back of your throat, looks llike its in there pretty deep. And what is that on your face? Egg?! *hands Kim a washcloth*

ImSparticus, this would be a better option for the $199 price range.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E1681410302 4R

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He said $150, so let's stick to it.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E1681415016 6

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E1681416106 4

Those are probably your best bets.

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Well, I've talked a lot to him in PM and the budget he gave me was pretty much *max* $60, AGP only and with DX9 support, so the 9800 Pro for literally 1 cent less was the best thing to go with.

  • 03.14.2007 6:45 PM PDT

Posted by: Nessy

The bungie.net community is the halo PC community that is renowned for being unbelieveably sucky.

9800pro is a solid DX9.0 hardware card. It has about half the performance of the x800 or 6800gt. When I started playing Halo in '04 I used a 9800pro and it ran the game maxed out pretty well to 1024x768. If you only care about Halo, it will do just fine, and all the in game graphics options can be enabled. It will definitely choke on newer games though.

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Dude, do NOT go with anything in the 9000 series for Radeon if you want good graphics. I suggest the X800 Pro. I personally have the X1600 Pro AGP...and it only cost slightly higher than what your looking at.

noscope_ is a VERY good player and runs the Radeon X800 Pro...one step below mine...can reach 200-300 FPS ingame at 800x600 res.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RndY9m2Y9F8

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It will run newish games, just don't expect anything from the last year and a half to go above medium quality at the best.

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Posted by: Anton P Nym
who says you have to be an ace to have fun?

Posted by: TUI_Obi_Wan
Stupid parents let their stupid children play games that are rated M when they should be playing Big Birds Spelling Adventures

Posted by: Kira Onime
Also the AR is actually good in CQB now and no longer a glorified baseball bat.

Do NOT get an X800 if you want to play any Ubi games, or some other games that will support SM3.0 only.

For some reason, ATI didn't put SM3.0 in their Xxxx cards, while Nvidia did put them in the 6xxx cards. ATI only introduced SM3.0 in their X1k cards.

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Did nobody get the AGP only max $60 memo? Guess not. ;)

  • 03.15.2007 7:14 AM PDT
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Oops, sry for the double post..

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Theres always ebay.


Link

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  • 03.15.2007 7:49 AM PDT

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Posted by: Iggwilv

*hands Kim a crowbar*
Here you will need this to help you get your foot out of the back of your throat, looks llike its in there pretty deep. And what is that on your face? Egg?! *hands Kim a washcloth*

Posted by: Btcc22
Did nobody get the AGP only max $60 memo? Guess not. ;)


Posted by: DC Spartan
Well, you said it, 150 or below and I have AGP.


Thats what I got.

Posted by: punkbassist8916
Dude, do NOT go with anything in the 9000 series for Radeon if you want good graphics. I suggest the X800 Pro. I personally have the X1600 Pro AGP...and it only cost slightly higher than what your looking at.

noscope_ is a VERY good player and runs the Radeon X800 Pro...one step below mine...can reach 200-300 FPS ingame at 800x600 res.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RndY9m2Y9F8


the 95,96,97 and 98 series all support all of the effects needed to max halo.

  • 03.15.2007 10:54 AM PDT

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Posted by: Death2BlueCheese
im afraid im gonna have to confiscate your testicles.

What are you, the Cyber police? lol.

Posted by: Btcc22
Well, I've talked a lot to him in PM and the budget he gave me was pretty much *max* $60, AGP only and with DX9 support, so the 9800 Pro for literally 1 cent less was the best thing to go with.
Yes, well Id go with any price 150$ or less, my father said it himself, but I looked around for the 9800 and found nothing Btcc gave me specific directions but I must be blind because I still didnt find it, no matter though, I ordered a 9600pro and will probably upgrade next year when I get Halo 2 Vista.
My parents dont trust ebay, trust me, they go on a rampage when they lose their money for nothing. Especially on the internet.

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