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Some video card advice?

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Monarchcx

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I just placed an order for a 9700 All in Wonder tonight. This is what I currently have:

K7T266 MSI mother board
AMD Athlon XP 1700+
512MB DDR266
My Current video card is a Nvidia Gforce 2ti 64MB.

When I play Zero:Hour what settings will best eliminate the lines in the flames and slow explosions. It looks awful.

Also, does anyone have any suggestions for decent upgrades. I'm not rich, but I would like something that will last for at least 5 years before it goes out of date. Any help will be greatly appreciated!
 
how much do you have to spend? 5 years is a long time to say before you upgrade again...
everything in computers goes out of date in less than 2 years
 
Don't expect a 2 year old video card to last another 5 years. Hell, a 9800XT won't last 5 years. 2 years is a pretty normal upgrade cycle. I generally alternate cpu/mb/ram and video card.
 
I've had this set-up for almost 3 years. I have a little bit of money, but not alot. Maybe 5 years was too long, but I you guys get the picture. I don't want to have to upgrade in 3 months. I'm thinking about the AMD 64's, but I'll have to research somemore (and post in the correct thread).
 
The 9700 probably has ATLEAST another year left in it, three years for a product isn't bad but a 9800 would last longer (probably the same as the 9700), well that depends on how the new GPUs shape up. But in most cases a 9600XT will get close to the performance of a 9700, I said close think around 10-20% difference.
 
Originally posted by Monarchcx
I just placed an order for a 9700 All in Wonder tonight. This is what I currently have:

K7T266 MSI mother board
AMD Athlon XP 1700+
512MB DDR266
My Current video card is a Nvidia Gforce 2ti 64MB.

When I play Zero:Hour what settings will best eliminate the lines in the flames and slow explosions. It looks awful.

Also, does anyone have any suggestions for decent upgrades. I'm not rich, but I would like something that will last for at least 5 years before it goes out of date. Any help will be greatly appreciated!
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$229 for a sapphire 9800 pro would be my suggestion. i can't guarantee anything above a floppy drive to not need an upgrade after 5 years, but this card seems to be a sweetspot for price / performance. considering the features it has, it should be more than acceptable for the directX 9 generation of games, and should blast through all your older games.

the problem with buying somthing futureproof is that we cant tell the future (duh). who knows how this card will do with directX 10, as it's prolly gonna demand entirely new features of a video card than of DX9 that the 9800pro (or any other card right now) was engineered to deliver. i'm not trying to belittle you, but as it's been said, i think it's unrealistic for the above reasons to think that a card will blast through all the newest games for more than 2 years to stay on top of the newest games, you need to stay on top of your hardware, and unfortunately it costs money :p
 
I think you're cheapest and best upgrade would be to get a $50-60 nforce2 motherboard. You can use everything you have now, and have the option to upgrade your cpu or RAM if you ever feel like it. My brother had the exact mobo you have now and he loved the performance increase when he upgraded to an A7N8X.
 
Originally posted by sKiDmArK
I think you're cheapest and best upgrade would be to get a $50-60 nforce2 motherboard. You can use everything you have now, and have the option to upgrade your cpu or RAM if you ever feel like it. My brother had the exact mobo you have now and he loved the performance increase when he upgraded to an A7N8X.
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This is the kind of advice I am looking for! You got some serious overclocking skills too, are you water cooling! Anyway, are you talking about this mother board . Just making sure before I purchase it!

CX
 
If you want to go by OC ability (bang for the buck?) then I would go with either these two:
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-127-166&catalog=22&depa=1
http://65.119.30.181/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-136-137&depa=1&section=1
Look around because I've seen them lower priced. Either board will do you since they are considered by many to be Fantastic OC boards out of the box.
Reviews of each board:
http://www.overclockers.co.nz/ocnz/mobo.shtml
http://www.mbreview.com/nf2inf-2.php
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/abit_nf7-s_2.0_review/default.asp
 
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