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Whats a good video card to buy?

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Hi
I have $400 Australian dollars ($312 US) to spend on a Video card for my computer

I have a x86 15 family model 12 stepping 0 authenticAMD 2009 mhz system with 1024mb ram and a gigabyte radeon 9600 pro 256mb ram video card.

Should i even get a video card? my pc is over a year old.... problem is, it is an AMD system, so if i upgrade the motherboard or cpu then i cannot use the old one to upgrade my second computer since it is an Pentium pc.

When i think about why i purchased the AMD in the first place i realise that dousn't matter much though. I purchased the AMD system because Intel were giving me the shits with incompatability issues along the timeline of their own lineage of computers thus preventing follow on upgrading anyway.
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Reply #26 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Hey guys, you've all been awesome with the support and info and I REALLY appreciate it.



Couldn't have put it better myself!

Newegg is where I did most of my research on pricing and compatibility. Check it out before surrendering.


Thanks for the tip, i might just have a look. Anyway, i don't think i am going to upgrade my AMD system. Not for any other reason but incombatability of processors. I did say before;

I'll have to look it up. I hope AMD are not going to piss me off with incompatability issues.... i'll run streight back into the arms of intel if that happens.


So yea, that's exactly what i am going to do.

I should have looked into AMD's history a bit before going with them in the first place! So what if the Pentium 4 crewed my long upgrading history with the pentium pc's... AMd may easily have been screwing upgrade possibilities more readily - and i didn't think to check, silly me eh?



Reply #27 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
and i didn't think to check, silly me eh?

No matter how hard you try, the planned obsolence in PC hardware and software is going to screw you sooner or later. At best a good selection might gain you an extra year before upgrading or allow you to recycle your PSU, hard drive and maybe your chassis. Of course you can usually keep your keyboard and mouse, big whoop.   
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Reply #28 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Planned obsolence.

I think it is inevitable and should be planned for, instead of complained about so much.

New processors may require a new socket.
New types of memory may need a different chipset.
A different video bus requires...


The technology evolves. So does the hardware and software.
Reply #29 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Planned obsolence.

I think it is inevitable and should be planned for

Hence the name.   

Yes. I know what you're saying. But's there's both effects in play. Clearly there are hardware and software improvements that are "enabling" technologies in that they enable folks to do things that they couldn't do before. But just as clearly there's change for change sake that does nothing for the user other than lightening their wallet. It's this type of change about which I "complain".

[edit] Opps. I spelt it incorrectly. Should be obsolescence. [/edit]
Reply #30 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Planned obsolence.

I think it is inevitable and should be planned for, instead of complained about so much.

New processors may require a new socket.
New types of memory may need a different chipset.
A different video bus requires...


The technology evolves. So does the hardware and software.



Oh my, if it were possible to see a computer company's executives wet dream... this post about sums it up!

Were not really talking about technology, we don't even see the technology. All we see and deal with are connections and voltages. We connect part A to part B and thats it. Computer companies then do whatever they can to manipulate these basic connections and voltasges to prevent compatability with the excuse that they are improving technology.

Reply #31 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The best you can do with an AGP based system is a Radeon X1950


The 3dmark2006 scores would say otherwise.

You can get a GF7950GT 512MB for $250-280 US. At least I did, several months ago.

EDIT: Wait a sec. AGP?! I wasn't aware people were still using that. Hm.

Yeah the ATI or a nVidia 7800GS AGP would be about it, though if I weren't expecting more money to even the odds, I'd split that between a new PCI-e mb, cpu, and a 7600GS.
Reply #32 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Planned obsolence.

I think it is inevitable and should be planned for, instead of complained about so much.


The technology evolves. So does the hardware and software.


Yeah, people *are* planning for it. Theyre buying consoles. Theyre buying consoles for the stable technological plateau of reasonable duration, and the Gamestop near my house doesnt even stock PC games on the shelves anymore. You ask at the counter, and if its a Major MMO or an RTS ,the last two genres to flourish on the PC (both of which are moving console side, with most major MMOs slated for release a year from now being developed for the 360, and RTS going cross platform as well), you might get lucky. Used DvDs get two racks.


Of course technology evolves, but we're talking a matter of degrees here. Its a wheel spinning off its axis, driven in tandem by game developers and hardware manufacturers, with no system of checks, standardized upgrade paths, or in-built consumer friendly mechanics in place.


So yeah, people will stop complaining about it soon enough.

Reply #33 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yeah, people *are* planning for it. Theyre buying consoles


hahaha, love that reply!

Although technically speaking consoles are really just 'primative' pc's. They are nothing more than a clever marketing strategy for companies to sell shit computers.

What makes them clever is primarily the fact that they don't have to run windows! and we all know how much windows can slow a perfectly good computer down. Then they are backed by the big game companies but that's nothing a good console emulator carn't fix.