- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Heyyo,
I bet the NV 6800 beats the ATI 9800 PRO, would would hope so since the NV 6800 is like, newer and hella more expensive, but let's try to stay ontopic boys... he needs an AFFORDABLE videocard.
I suggest a ATI Radeon 9600 PRO, good price, good card. You get your money's worth there man. ;)
I had an NV FX5600, and I was really upset with its preformance, NOT worth the money I spent onnit... the card DIED in Far Cry... could barely do anything when it's going at 5F/S. :P
If you can't afford a ATI Radeon 9600PRO? try to find a bargan bin card, a DX8 Card. Hey man, sure, not the newest pixel shaders n' junk, but still run new games pretty nice.
the ATI Radeon 8500 PRO was great, and so was the whole NV Geforce4 TI lineup. I think that was Nvidia's last truly stable card lineup... FX seems a little dodgy to me...
So yeah, I'm sure you can find a NV GF4 4200 TI for like, $120 at the most, so try to find that sucker, your comp will be able to handle it, you'll still get good graphics, and your framerate should be plenty stable. :)
HaloPC will still look awesome, the game was built for Pixel Shader v1.4, and you won't notice the difference between PS2.0 and PS1.4 unless you're uber technical, heck I even ain't yet for graphics. :P
[Edited on 11/24/2004 12:08:40 PM]