- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: coylter
Yea nvidia sucked bad in last round with their FX series....Bad IQ , low performance, load of cheating. Its ironic that the situation as switched between the two competitor.
Oh, -blam- !! I have been searching this forum for over a week and posting all sorts of clueless questions about video cards. And, for the past four days, have been trying to find out who the -blam- "Coylter" is and where this mysterious "video card guide" was hiding.
GOOD NEWS: I finally found this thread, today.
BAD NEWS: I feel really stupid, not searching the stickies, just cause they did not have the word "video" in the title.
REALLY BAD NEWS: I bought my new graphics card two days ago.
MORE BAD NEWS: I've read the entire 10 pages of this thread without finding a direct answer to my question about the nVidia FX5700LE-TD256.
GOOD NEWS: I think I have a pretty good idea, now of the relative rankings of most graphics cards...
BAD NEWS: ...except the one I own.
Give it to me straight, Coylter: Did I screw up by buying an FX5700LE with 256MB for $150? (I can still return this guy for a $25 restocking fee if I act in the next few days. Is there anything BETTER for about $100?)
The sales guy told me that FX5700LE performance was somewhere between Radeon 9600 and 9600XT. Did he tell me the truth?
I have an Xbox that I use for campaign. For online, I want to use my 2-3 year old HP from Costco with a 1.8GHz P4 and 512MB RAM. I want to run lagless Halo online, at the next video resolution ABOVE 800x600, and understand that video (under)performance is often the source of "lag."
Can I do this with my set-up? Using "-use11" switch? And, if not, what hardware tweaks or cheap upgrades would you suggest to get me to my goal?
Thank you!
Oh. And I just can't pass up the opportunity to chip in on the "Halo 2 coming to PC" conversation: For less $$$$ than most of you would pay to get just the video card (no cpu upgrades, memory upgrades, etc., etc.) to play Halo 2, four years from now, you can buy Halo 2 for Xbox AND the Xbox to run it, four months from now! Case in point: I just paid $169, 2 months back, at Frye's, for a bundle that included a special Halo edition (translucent green) Xbox AND Halo AND two other Xbox games. 2 days ago, when I paid $150 for (what I hope is) a mid-range video card that will sort of play Halo O.K. on the PC, I saw an Xbox advertised for $129 (in Walmart, I think). For anyone (other than a die-hard Halo PC fanboy) who can afford a mid-range video card, the appropriate November 2004 vote (and I ain't talking Presidents) should be obvious.
So, if you want to play Halo 2 with "Xbox-like" video performance; and you have enough money to buy the card that would accomplish that, you don't need a good PC. In fact, you don't need to wait four years, and you don't need a PC at all: Problem solved.