Guest FrankyG Posted January 20, 2004 Report Posted January 20, 2004 Planning to build a new PC with AthlonXP2800 CPU, 512 memory and want a graphics card thats capable of Half Life 2 (with eye candy ON!)...and thats pretty much it! Oh, needs TV out. Dual monitor would be nice but not essential. From what I gather, the ATi cards seem to perform much better than the Nvidia's (although drivers should help this situation) so I'm leaning towards Ati just now. I really don't need a cutting edge card, was thinking of around £70-80 for the graphics, but would this get me a DX9 compliant card? Any input welcome! Cheers...
Guest ClintEastman Posted January 20, 2004 Report Posted January 20, 2004 People on here are going to start thinking i work for ATI on here but, ATI 9600 PRO 128MB is the way to go. Here are early bencmarks for HL2: - http://www6.tomshardware.com/business/2003...lf-life-01.html And now you can flash 9600 non-pro & 9600 pro to a 9600XT, so everybody is happy! Saying that, by the time HL2 comes out (the summer im told by a friend that works for vivendi) the R420 cards will be out and the 9800's will be a lot cheaper (plus the low end R420's will be out). :wink:
Guest ClintEastman Posted January 20, 2004 Report Posted January 20, 2004 :cry: Just got a timnkle that HL2 might be put back to Sep 24 2004, but that's unconfirmed. :cry:
Guest FrankyG Posted January 20, 2004 Report Posted January 20, 2004 People on here are going to start thinking i work for ATI on here but, ATI 9600 PRO 128MB is the way to go. Here are early bencmarks for HL2: - http://www6.tomshardware.com/business/2003...lf-life-01.html And now you can flash 9600 non-pro & 9600 pro to a 9600XT, so everybody is happy! Saying that, by the time HL2 comes out (the summer im told by a friend that works for vivendi) the R420 cards will be out and the 9800's will be a lot cheaper (plus the low end R420's will be out). :wink: Flashing the 9600 :?: sounds like a plan to me...where can I read more!?
Guest ClintEastman Posted January 20, 2004 Report Posted January 20, 2004 http://www.3dmaxx.net/forums/showthread.ph...hp?threadid=983 BUT BE CAREFULL!!! (READ THE THREAD IN FULL)!!!
Guest spacecowboy6982 Posted January 20, 2004 Report Posted January 20, 2004 Lol - how much are ATI paying you for this Clint :lol: Im off to the shops 2moro and get myself the 9800 pro again - I just hope its better than the last one I had :evil:
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