Recommended video cards

[HarryButt]

I would expect you to ask a bum on the street why the hell he doesn't grow up and goes making some money...

[Ed]

What is up with these discussions of sorry-ass video cards?
WTF?? Why dont you all just grow up and get one of the 8800 series of NVIDIA video cards. How about get the 9800 series of NVIDIA video cards or the Nvidia GTX 200 series.

I got the Nvidia GeForce 280 GTX super high-end video card.
I make my framerates sky rocket to the next dimension!!!

Some people have other priorities in life, like families. Not everyone is 14 and spends all of the money from their paper round on their computer.

[Xeno]

He's from Texas. He doesn't know any better.

[Ed]

He's from Texas. He doesn't know any better.

Trouble is this kind of attitude is far more widespread than just a bit of Mexico that fell off. It's far too common in gaming related forums worldwide.

There are no top of the line graphics cards I want to buy. There haven't been for many years. Why? They're all horrid. Big, noisy, power guzzley, hot and within 6 months it's going to be out of date so you'll have to buy another so that you can maintain your status as a village idiot.

I'll stick with my quiet, compact, energy efficient system instead thanks.

For discerning, grown up computer users, the sight of a forum signature boasting multiple systems with absolute top end components and retarded 1TW PSU's, cold cathodes and sense vacuum cooling is a sign that the proceding posting was that of a twat.

[Lee_Stricklin]

What is up with these discussions of sorry-ass video cards?
WTF?? Why dont you all just grow up and get one of the 8800 series of NVIDIA video cards. How about get the 9800 series of NVIDIA video cards or the Nvidia GTX 200 series.

I got the Nvidia GeForce 280 GTX super high-end video card.
I make my framerates sky rocket to the next dimension!!!


Xm4n

Not all of us have a lot of money to buy decent hardware. Up until last year I had a rig with these specs that I was playing UT99 on:

Windows ME
Intel Pentium III 450MHz
256 DIMM RAM
ATI Rage Pro Turbo AGP 4MB
8 (single digit) GB HDD by Maxtor
JUNK ATX by Chaintech that still had ISA sockets!
Hercules Muse XL Game Surround 4.0 Sound Card
Sweat-stained PS/2 Toshiba Keyboard that didn't have any ticking time bombs on it
No-Name Ball Mouse

My UT ran at an average of 17 FPS on a low res with the software renderer after I tweaked the ini. I became one of the best siege players out there (got a little piece of ass-kissery to prove it) and joined [SwS] shortly after.

I currently have a used rig that I added onto and I'm busting my ass to build a better one from the ground up starting with case. This is my current rig:

Ubuntu Ultimate Edition and Windows XP
Intel Pentium 4 HT 3.0GHz (dual-core? it runs and reads like one, I even had to get a multi-core patch for UT99)
2.5 GB DRR1 RAM (scored it off a buddy for like $15 a 512MB stick)
PNY NVidia Geforce 6200 PCI 256 MB (ditched that unstable ATI piece of crap and re-installed my old card)
320 GB Seagate HDD
Diamond 7.1 JUNK Soundcard
Logitech G15 V2 Keyboard and Cyber Snipa PC Gamepad 2
Razer Lachesis Mouse

Ass-Kissery here:
http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee82 ... ODLIKE.jpg

[Juppy]

^HT is HyperThreading....One physical core and one logical core. Kinda like the new Nehalem core which is 4 physical cores and 4 logical cores O_O

Btw, nice deal you got there for the DDR1 RAM. There are much more expensive than DDR2 RAM >,> which doesn't make sense.

[Lee_Stricklin]

^HT is HyperThreading....One physical core and one logical core. Kinda like the new Nehalem core which is 4 physical cores and 4 logical cores O_O

Btw, nice deal you got there for the DDR1 RAM. There are much more expensive than DDR2 RAM >,> which doesn't make sense.

Yeah, DDR1 RAM is so much slower (I think mine is like 266MHz) than DDR2 RAM so it really doesn't make sense for DDR2 to be so much cheaper.

[Taiyo.uk]

I get very playable framerates with an ATI Radeon HD3650 (Fedora 8, Catalyst 8.7, C2D E6300 CPU). This is a "mainstream" or "mid-range" card that retails for around £40 to £50 in the UK. I was attracted to the relatively low peak power consumption of 41.7W (from this review)

I get ~40fps on large outdoor maps such arhia-v2 and ons-reborn. I run Nexuiz at 1280*1024 with HDR, RT lights with shadows, high quality textures and 4x AF. In most indoor maps the FPS remains at the capped value of 60 except in crowded battles where it can drop to around 30. Only the water reflections really kills the FPS.

[Juppy]

^HT is HyperThreading....One physical core and one logical core. Kinda like the new Nehalem core which is 4 physical cores and 4 logical cores O_O

Btw, nice deal you got there for the DDR1 RAM. There are much more expensive than DDR2 RAM >,> which doesn't make sense.

Yeah, DDR1 RAM is so much slower (I think mine is like 266MHz) than DDR2 RAM so it really doesn't make sense for DDR2 to be so much cheaper.

I think you should really invest on a new motherboard, probably a new processor too since no motherboards I know of in circulation can support a single core and DDR2 RAM. The price of dual cores should drop quite soon when Intel's Core i7 (Nehalem) is released.

I remember paying around 200 bucks for 512 DDR1 RAM -.-. 1GB DDR2 is like 15 bucks now

[Xm4n]

Well, it seems that I stirred up some responses here. First off, I am not 14, I do have a job and make good money and in the 20's. I have priorities in life. Second off, I am not from TX, just moved here from Maryland. The statement that Ed made about top of the live video cards seems to immature. A top notch video card can put you over the top for some years. not 20 years as it seems like Ed implied. a year to 2 years seems proficient. Hottest FPS games are awesome and having a top notch video card can max out any settings that the FPS game can throw at it. So, for a true gamer/enthusiast, top notch components are a must, if they have the money. And if they dont, they would almost certainly have the motivation for it and find a way to get it. Looks like Ed might be jealous that he does not have the top notch parts (boo hoo) So he is stuck to his current rig. Think he is trying to sound smart and efficient, in which we all know that he is NOT. Stop trying to be fundamentally sound Ed, and I implore you to join us!!! And stop being a twat and sissy and start buying some real components that do justice!!!