1) If I do get a video card that can handle WoW with everything at full, will my processor lag the screen still? If not, then
2) What video card will do what I need? And that is play WoW at full specs.
If you're not against something obsurdly expensive, the 7800GS is the fastest AGP card on the market. Though it sounds like ATi is going to release an x1900 in AGP pretty soon which should destroy the 7800.
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One thousand monkies on one thousand typewriters would eventually write what TheOriginalZane said;
1. Get a 6800. Are you going to upgrade to 64bit or stay in the Athalon XP world?
I have no idea what you are talking about
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And I was all like 'Oh yeah?' and Delidgamond was all like:
I have no idea what you are talking about
Are you updating your motherboard/processor/whole shebang soon or just the video card? No reason to drop $400 on a card when your processor is going to bottleneck.
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Alaan stopped masturbating to porn to say;
Are you updating your motherboard/processor/whole shebang soon or just the video card? No reason to drop $400 on a card when your processor is going to bottleneck.
Well I'd have to find new video cards but do you mean something like this?
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Rockstar games presents; Inferno-Spirit;
My optical mouse has been dying for a while. I need a new one. Can anyone recommend a good one in the $20-40 range?
Get the fuck out of my thread
Your computer is just too old to do a piecemeal upgrade, it looks like to me.
Edit: And likely a new hard drive too, glancing at your DXDiag.txt. Noxhil2 fucked around with this message on 10-07-2006 at 04:31 PM.
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Inferno-Spirit had this to say about Reading Rainbow:
My optical mouse has been dying for a while. I need a new one. Can anyone recommend a good one in the $20-40 range?
Get a Logitech MX518, or and MX500. Or hell, just get a G5. All of those will work well.
Delidgamond fucked around with this message on 10-07-2006 at 05:13 PM.
I believe you will get more bang for your buck if you go this route instead, with the biostar motherboard.
Also, that seems to be quite expensive for a 6800GS, although that should work as well.
Keep in mind that you will never be able to upgrade any of these components in the future... AGP, s754 and LGA775 (for Pentium Ds) have all reached or passed their life cycles.
E: Oh, canadian $s... Noxhil2 fucked around with this message on 10-07-2006 at 07:07 PM.
I'm pretty sure you'll be able to find a Conroe mobo that'll support DDR as well. Most of those boards are going to have a PCI Express slot instead of an AGP slot though, so keep that in mind when looking at a new video card. A 7600GT should be cheaper on PCI-e than a 6800 on AGP and it'll be faster as well.
A 6300 even pwnz the crap out of most things. Not to mention if you get enthusiast about it you can overclock damn near all of them to 3ghz or beyond. You need a good motherboard and DDR2 - 800 RAM to do it though.
How is this Mobo and processor with this or this video card?
I'm trying to buy both items from Tigerdirect (canadian based company) so I can save money on shipping.
E: Don't get the 6800 Noxhil2 fucked around with this message on 10-08-2006 at 05:34 AM.
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Noxhil2 had this to say about Optimus Prime:
That combo and the the 7600GT will work together well, yes.E: Don't get the 6800
Yep. Also, you're going to need a heatsink + fan for that, it's an OEM processor.
But that'll be a pretty good upgrade. The video card will have some life to it, and you can go dual core later on the processor if you want.
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Delidgamond wrote this then went back to looking for porn:
Well, I ordered the combo with the 7600GT. Let's hope everything works out! $70 in mail in rebates
Do you have something to cool the processor with? You're going to need a new heatsink and fan, because the one you're using right now won't work.
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One thousand monkies on one thousand typewriters would eventually write what BetaTested said;
Do you have something to cool the processor with? You're going to need a new heatsink and fan, because the one you're using right now won't work.
You are the worst person ever.
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like this one?
That's golden. I want one of them myself. Well, I'd probably spring for the solid copper one. But yeah, they work wellllll.
