Halo 1 & 2 for PC
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Subject: Graphics Card Lists - Ratings, Pricings and more
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You dont need an extremely powerful processor to run top of the line games. People dont understand that its like 70% reliant on your videocard, and your memory. You could have an amd fx-60, 4 gigs of ram, and a 15,000rpm hard drive, but if you have a geforce fx5200 your lucky if you break 20fps with a resolution of 1280x1024

I'd say if you have a geforce 7800GT or higher, an athlon xp 2800+ or any of hte 64 bit AMD's (or a pentium 4 2.6 or higher), and a gig of ram, you should be able to run almost any game on high settings. You dont even need an amazing processor. You can get away using the amd xp series (which one of my friends has) and still get great preformance. The 2 most imporant things to consider when building a gaming pc is the videocard, and the amount/type of ram. You dont need an amazing cpu, or insane mobo.

  • 04.10.2006 9:15 AM PDT
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I have a x1600 xt g/c, and it runs CS:S great with everything on medium, and water on high (same setting with HL2). I get about ~60 fps average in both CS:S and HL2, although when the time comes ill buy myself the x800 GTO or something like that if i really need to. But back to the forum, i recommend this card if you're poor and want good performance.

P.S. Far Cry runs on this card with everything on high with about ~60 fps average

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amd athlon 64 x2 4200 (2.2 Ghz each core)
1 gig ram (2 x 512 mb)
250 gig hd
48x DVD-ROM drive
Sony 17-inch TFT monitor (DVI owz0rz)

  • 04.10.2006 9:32 AM PDT
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Yea the bigger the size the more stuff it has to sort through. Kinda like trying to look up a name in a large phone book, compared to that of a smaller phonebook. Even though its all alphabetical it still takes longer (in a hard drives case its ordered, but still just takes longer).

And the speed is how fast the discs rotate. The speeds that are common today are 5400rpm, 7200rpm, 10,000rpm, and 15,000rpm (the 15,000rpms's are scsi drive mostly in high preformance servers). The seek time is always alot less and can load stuff alot faster. My friend has 2 western digital raptor 74 gigs (10,000rpm's), and its a huge difference. Windows loads in about half the time, and overall gaming is much quicker with shorter loading times.

  • 04.10.2006 10:26 AM PDT
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GeForce 4 MX and 440 GO, BADDDD! EVILLLL! IT BURNSSESS USSSS!

  • 04.10.2006 3:03 PM PDT
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no, my brothers dell has an x700se and it runs most games on 1024x768 with medium settings.....And this computer im using now has an x800XL and I run every game I have on 1280x1024 with high settings. I can show you some benchmarks if you want


And no the 6600GT is notbetter than the 6800XT. It his however better than the plain 6800.

I did change it around for you...check it out


If anyone thinks that something needs changed around let me know. And also, I'm not even going to go into integrated videocards because theyre so bad its not even woth mentioning.

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  • 04.10.2006 5:09 PM PDT
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The X800xl is a rather good card. Don't let its price fool you. Its cheap (relatively) but is really powerful.

  • 04.10.2006 5:33 PM PDT
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yea same goes for the 6600GT. It kills cards in the same price range

  • 04.10.2006 6:12 PM PDT
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Thanx for the info

  • 04.10.2006 6:22 PM PDT

Posted by: Nessy

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

Posted by: Chewy Gumball
Dual x1900's or Dual 7900GTX's


Interestingly, I bet Halo isn't gpu intensive enough to make use of dual high end cards like that. I'm running 2x7900s and use single gpu rendering for Halo instead of SLI. The performance is better, no need to bottleneck the cpu when a single high end card eats the game up for lunch. Now, if Halo supported anti-aliasing, this would be a difference story entirely.

Also, the list needs to be updated to reflect that the x850xtpe is available in AGP too.

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  • 04.11.2006 1:53 PM PDT
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He just asked for the best cards, not the best for halo.

  • 04.11.2006 2:07 PM PDT
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Hm...I like where this thread is headed...props on a good idea, TMH. You're improving ^_^ ...

Anyways, perhaps a brief little sentence or something of the sort about Integrated Chipsets would help. I don't expect you to list Integrated chipsets, that would be pointless, but explain stuff like exactly how integrated differs from a regular graphics card (shared RAM as opposed to dedicated, integrated onto mobo as opposed to seperate, all that good schtuff). I think it'll help those who come in asking how their Mobility ATI or nVidia ranks on that list.

Meh, if you're lazy, I can probably bang something together for you to stick in. Or tell me that I'm wrong and decide not to include it. Your choice.

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Posted by: Fatal05
The x600pro is a 9600pro in PCI-E factor.......so that needs to be put to low.


Wrong; the x series cards are pcie native, so it's a totally different model of card. That, and it's a DX9 card whereas the 9 series is DX8.1

The 6800GT is slightly worse than a standard 6800gs, so that should be medium.

Wrong again. A standard GS will be beaten into the ground by a standard GT because the GT carries an extra 4 pixel pipelines. (luckily; mine's not standard; it's a 512mb version with 4 factory-locked pipelines which i unlocked and then overclocked yo 6800ultra speeds. cheap, easy and fast 6800ultra with 512mb of ram :))

The 7800GT doesnt come in AGP form.

Sorry to say it, but wrong again. The 7800GS is a 7800GT with a PCI-E to AGP bridge.

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The x600pro is in direcet comparison with the 9600pro. Don't argue that.



yea except its newer and the architecture changes. It scores higher on benchmarks

  • 04.11.2006 4:08 PM PDT

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you need air dude.............

i got a geforce 6200 256mb but when i installed tbe new driver for the graphics card it turned it to 128mb. can someone please tell me why that happened?

  • 04.11.2006 4:13 PM PDT
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you have to go into your bios and set the graphics size to 256. Its usually defaulted at 64 so I dont know if thats the cause.

  • 04.11.2006 4:21 PM PDT

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Nice list man! Looks like i need to save about 200 dollars ^_^ thanks for the info much appreciated

  • 04.11.2006 11:45 PM PDT
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Yea i decided to make the list just because lately there have been like 5-10 posts a day asking which graphics card is good, how much they cost, and whether or not it will be good for halo.

  • 04.12.2006 8:20 AM PDT

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