Help me decide...

[spotdog14]

Hello,

Well lets start off with what i have now.. I have a P4 3.0 oc'ed to 3.6, 3 gigs of ram, raptor hdd. I have an Ati x700 Pro (256 mb). I am getting a Dell 2405 FPW. Currently right now i am running this beast on an old Gateway 20 inch monitor at 1600x1200. I run most games in 1280x1024. In BF2 i run at 4x aa, and evertyhign else on high, on HL2 i run everything on high, with 2x aa. I get decent frame rates around 40ish. Anyways with the new monitor i know im going to have to run a high resolutions, i want to know if the x700 will be able to handle it, or should i get a new video card...

I use to be a hard core Nvidia guy until i got my Alienware Laptop with the Ati 9000m card in it, it kicked the pants off of my Nvidia Ti 4800. So the next card i got was the x700 and i have not been very impressed with it to say the least, but then again i only paied $100 for it.

Im probibly going ot be going back to an Nvidia card, and want to know what a good one would be for me to get, or if i shoudl get one for the new xmas present!


Thanks!

 

[DougLite]

At the 2405's native res of 1920x1200, you are looking at an absolute minimum of a 7800GT. More likely is that you will need a setup in the neighborhood of 7800GT SLI or a 512MB 7800GTX if you want to play in that league. An X700 Pro certainly isn't going to get it done in 1920x1200.

 

[spotdog14]

At the 2405's native res of 1920x1200, you are looking at an absolute minimum of a 7800GT. More likely is that you will need a setup in the neighborhood of 7800GT SLI or a 512MB 7800GTX if you want to play in that league. An X700 Pro certainly isn't going to get it done in 1920x1200.

i know that a lot of games dont even support that high of resolution. Ill probibly not run it at native in many of hte games i play just for hte pure fact that its that high...lol...

thanks for hte info though, i dont relaly want to replace my mobo (since i just built a new computer with a sweet Asus motherboard). Ill go and take a look at some 7800's. What about (i know i said i didnt want ATI, but an x850 XT?). Also waht brand do you guys prefer for the Nvidia's im still kinda bia toward Asus....lol....