Daveyraveygravy

Need some advice from the computer bods please!

I play battlefield 2 on my PC with an Nvidea Geforce 6600GT card but as you can imagine i cant play it with all the graphics turned up coz it just freezes all the time.

What card do you recommend for around £300, my PC spec is as follows:

Asus A8N Sli Deluxe MBoard
AMD 3500 64 (Runs at 45C Not overclocked)
Soundblaster Fatal1ty
1Gb of RAM Corsair (2x 512Mb matched pair)
Gainward Geforce 6600GT SLi 256Mb (Golden Sample)
All running with the latest drivers

Can i put an ATi card in there coz i heard that they are better???

Thanks in advance,

Dave

Cossiebros

ATI cards are not specifically better then Nvidia cards, but ATI's X1900XT(X) can handle HDR, FSAA and AF the same time, while Nvidia cards can not. So, image quality might be slightly better with the ATI's (although the IQ of the Nvidia cards is also very nice)
However, the Nvidia Geforce 7900 GT is really great value for money and a pretty damn fast GPU, with a huge OC potential, and (in Holland) much cheaper then a ATI X1900 XT.
If you go for a 7900 GT, buy a XFX one, as some other manufacturers (Evga) had issues with their cards.

MikeyXR2i

I can't see why its freezing with a 6600GT, they are a very fast card, plus you can buy another one to link up to it. Are your ones PCi Express?

SimonT

BF2 is a cooont on the graphics when turned up full.

I run with most shit turned off on my 9600pro

xr4x4rs

iTrader: (5)

are you running agp or pci-e

my graphic card is set to low on everything as it just carnt cope, carnt remember which one is in there but im not upgrading due to new pc being built

which im going to be running 2x 7900 gtx extremem edition 512mb

if pci slot then go down the 7900 route or 7800 you wont go wrong

if agp then get the best one you can get basically

Daveyraveygravy

Thanks for the replies guys

Yes my card is a pci express but when i turn up all the graphics it doesnt like it at all, if i put another 6600GT in there so i have an SLi setup it will still not be as good as a newer card.

This card still cost me £130 i thought it would last a BIT longer than this!! lol

xr4x4rs

iTrader: (5)

nope

id just get a 7800 gtx for the time being or if you can afford it a 7900 gtx extreme but just under £500 for one

bigbobby

Or fook the pc off and get a xbox 360 lol.

Gaz

Daveyraveygravy

So its not worth me going to the darkside with an ATi card then? I thought they were quicker than the Nvidias

Have you got any ideas/links on a good make?



That sounds like a very quick rig!!


bigbobby - Dont want a 360 i preffer playing my games om the PC, i dont know why??

bigbobby

I know what your sayin mate sorta takes away the feeling abit on a console but by fook does it play and look good lol.

Gaz

Jim Galbally

theres NOTHING wrong with your spec.

i dont think upgrading your GFX card will mke fuck all difference

you deffo wanna put 2gb ram in it tho, BF2 loves memory

BM08

Yeah sometimes you need more RAM to get the most out of a graphics card, although the one you have now is probably running at full speed judging by your spec, probably only with higher spec cards that you need minimum 2gb to get full potential

BM08

Have a butchers on here http://www.tech-forums.net/index.php?s= or even better,sign up, as the guys on there no absolutly everything about pc's, you ask it and they will give you the answers

Daveyraveygravy

Thanks for all the help guys, i'll try getting more ram first then

GTi_iTG - That site is really good thanks.

I just looked at the post about overclocking my CPU and it made absolutely no sense to me what-so-ever lol!!!

S1 Lee

i'd go for the 7900gt over the gtx just for the value for money factor.

for the price of a gtx u could put a bit more and run 2 7900gt's in sli mode.

Daveyraveygravy

Anyone got any good links to show me??

Zetec Andy

You said exactly the same to me when i bought mine but i bought a 7800GTX anyway!

Can have everything flat out on BF2 now and its silky smooth

xr4x4rs

iTrader: (5)

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatal...__PCI_412.html

Daveyraveygravy

Ah ive got another problem, i still have a crt monitor (i will be upgrading soon though)

Do i need a card with TV out then?

xr4x4rs

iTrader: (5)

nothing wrong with crt mate

its what i use and a lot of other people problem with these lcd screen is the refresh rate which is no good for games

Zetec Andy

8ms is fine

Just upgraded to a dell 19" LCD in the easter sale, mucho cool

xr4x4rs

iTrader: (5)

doesnt matter with u cus the only thing u kill is team mates

BM08

Lcd's dont have refresh rates, hence why you can take a picture of the screen with no lines running up and down the screen

Its just that the pixles are slower at changing colours or something but nowa days the new lcd's are easily caplable of running top games, just dont get anything above 8-12ms and you should be laughing

DanRSturbo

Slap another gig of ram, and a 7800 gtx nvidia card and it'll be fine

89xr2

I can run bf2 fine on max settings with my x 800 xt pe.

Daveyraveygravy

Thanks guys