Video Card Upgrade Help

Joined: Dec 27, 2005 Posts: 34

Hello...Could someone pass along some ideas for video card upgrades. I am currently running a GeForce 5500 which will run BF2 at the lowest settings but I would like to run BF2 at a high setting, but not break the bank at the same time. Any suggestions?

Joined: Dec 22, 2005 Posts: 28 Location: England

hey mate. if u let us know the rest of the spec of ur machine, im sure someone will be able to point you in the rite direction

Joined: Dec 27, 2005 Posts: 34

todge2k wrote:

hey mate. if u let us know the rest of the spec of ur machine, im sure someone will be able to point you in the rite direction

Yeah forgot to include that... Smile

I am at work so I dont have my system here, but I believe I am running a P4 ~2.4, with 1.5G of RAM. I think my current card is a GeForce FX 5500. It runs good at a low setting, but if I move up to Medium its gets pretty choppy.

Joined: Nov 11, 2005 Posts: 74 Location: Peterborough

Are you looking for AGP or PCI card, it will make a huge difference!

Joined: Dec 22, 2005 Posts: 28 Location: England

im going to guess u havnt upgraded to pci-e yet? my brother had a system similar to urs. he had 2.8ghz proccessor and 1gb of ram. he also had a geforce 5600 i think. i gave him my old radeon 9800XT 256MB and the difference was unbelievable. if ur not ready to upgrade everything now becuase of cost, getting a decent gfx card may sort you out so u can run bf2. personally i would spend £100 - £150 on a mid range gfx card now to tide u over as i think u would run bf2 fine then. and then save ur money up and go the pci-e route in 6 months or so.

Joined: Oct 03, 2005 Posts: 45

You can get some good deals on gfx 6600's now and providing you get the 256mb version your sorted I was running bf2 on its release on one of those at the highest setting with no "choppiness". I moved to an SLi array with 2 7800gtx cards and to be honest the difference isnt amazingly different although i probably wouldnt go back now as its awesome in other areas too Razz

Joined: Jul 01, 2005 Posts: 519 Location: Watching You

Blimey dev never thought you had such a powerfull rig set up and another thing were are you you and roug aint been on teamspeak for ages Very Happy

Joined: Dec 27, 2005 Posts: 34

talbot1230 wrote:

Are you looking for AGP or PCI card, it will make a huge difference!

I am pretty sure my motherboard has an AGP slot. But was more or less looking for the best deal. Do you suggest I get an AGP card?

Joined: Dec 27, 2005 Posts: 34

D3V1L wrote:

You can get some good deals on gfx 6600's now and providing you get the 256mb version your sorted I was running bf2 on its release on one of those at the highest setting with no "choppiness". I moved to an SLi array with 2 7800gtx cards and to be honest the difference isnt amazingly different although i probably wouldnt go back now as its awesome in other areas too Razz

Ok so I found an GeForce 6600 256MB card, but it states it is an PCI Express card. Will it still work if my motherboard does not support PCI express? Question

Joined: Dec 27, 2005 Posts: 34

todge2k wrote:

im going to guess u havnt upgraded to pci-e yet? my brother had a system similar to urs. he had 2.8ghz proccessor and 1gb of ram. he also had a geforce 5600 i think. i gave him my old radeon 9800XT 256MB and the difference was unbelievable. if ur not ready to upgrade everything now becuase of cost, getting a decent gfx card may sort you out so u can run bf2. personally i would spend £100 - £150 on a mid range gfx card now to tide u over as i think u would run bf2 fine then. and then save ur money up and go the pci-e route in 6 months or so.

Hey is this the same card you are reffering to above?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102361R#sctNav

Joined: Jul 02, 2005 Posts: 1453

If ur motherboard doesnt support PCI-Express no it won't work m8 Smile

Joined: Dec 22, 2005 Posts: 28 Location: England

the card you linked to isnt the one i was talking about, that one is the 9800 pro. and as stated above u need a pci-e mobo to run a pci-e gfx card. so what ur after is a decent agp one. check out ebuyer, dabs, scan etc. also if u use ebay u may get a bargain on there.

Joined: Nov 11, 2005 Posts: 74 Location: Peterborough

stay away from the 9800 pro I've just upgraded from that as it keep crashing the game. Go for a GFroce 6800gt you can get one on ebay for about £150 You must get a AGP card if that is what your current one is unless you have a dual board which have only come out in the last 6 months or so supporting both PCI express and AGP graphics cards.

The 6800 gt is very stable and I have not had any graphic card related crashes! If you can afford it buy some one gig sticks of ram, Upgrade to 2gb cost me about £150 quid this will improve the game also! ( but check what pin set it is before you buy it as a lot of places will not take back memory!

Good luck !

Community Founder Joined: Jun 30, 2005 Posts: 2629

9800 will not play at all well buy anything up from a Gforce 6800 which you can get for around £90
Cheers
|2es-mrix

Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2005 1:07 pm

mrix wrote:

9800 will not play at all well buy anything up from a Gforce 6800 which you can get for around £90
Cheers
|2es-mrix

I am using the radeon 9800 pro 256mb and have no probs with it