video card help please - HL2DMU Forum Archive

scott5245

2008-11-15 11:38:47

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814150323

go go go go go and give me your thoughts on this card

The Argumentalizer

2008-11-15 11:54:11

Its a ****ing PSU.

scott5245

2008-11-15 12:05:34

ty very much lol. now its the video card

Ko-Tao

2008-11-15 12:17:52

Solid card, good price, itll run dm just fine (150+fps on almost all maps, everything high).

sava

2008-11-15 16:15:27

http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_9800gx2.html

maybe little better..

provost

2008-11-15 17:10:43

sava wrote:http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_9800gx2.html

maybe little better..

maybe a lot more expensive too .. haha

ownege

2008-11-15 19:39:33

hey Scott ya if ur just playing hl2dm and other source games the one you picked is good IMHO. I have 2 9800's. I got 1 of them for free. Also what card do you have now?

GatesMcTaste

2008-11-15 19:49:42

ownege wrote:hey Scott ya if ur just playing hl2dm and other source games the one you picked is good IMHO. I have 2 9800's. I got 1 of them for free. Also what card do you have now?

let's put it this way ownege it's ironic that dear old scotty is using steam, coz that's what is powering his current GPU...

He has an old ATI card from 2003 that's just about enough to run hl2dm

ownege

2008-11-16 00:00:46

lolk

scott5245

2008-11-16 00:07:37

ive got a radeon x600 thats integrated on the mobo.. somethin like that atleast, we cant quite figure it out

Rachkir

2008-11-16 02:26:48

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814143130

I got two of these. Awesome Cards. To bad SLI doesn't work wonders on HL2DM, but it pwns for dx10 games!!! Anyways, I use to run one of these and I got 150-300 fps on all cal maps. Exception being ldr3...that never made it much past 230. Now it does

newegg has awesome mail in rebate on these atm. like 35 bucks off. the overclock editon has faster core clock rates then 9800, plus its not a power whore.

BFG ftw

CellarDweller

2008-11-16 04:17:16

if your cpu can keep up with it wont bottleneck it... good. also make sure your power supply is adequate.

sava

2008-11-16 04:35:40

.conflict wrote:
sava wrote:http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_9800gx2.html

maybe little better..
maybe a lot more expensive too .. haha

yeah.. 420€ and 8800 gt 170€.. all is .. how much is too much...

Walking Target

2008-11-16 05:53:16

I would spend $50 more and get a 9800 GTX+

keefy

2008-11-16 16:53:34

Well source games use lots of CPU so upgrading your card will do little if your CPU is old and weak. I had a Pentium4 @ 2.6 upgrading from a FX5700 to a X850XT did double my FPS from 30-60 but a few months later I upgraded CPU to what I have now AMD X2 4800 and doubled the FPS again whilst running max AA and AF and HDR.
Now using a 8800GT and there is not much performance difference between this and the X850XT due to the processor.

DEATH-ANGEL

2008-11-26 09:13:05

Just get a GTX 260. They're running at good prices right now.

scott5245

2008-11-26 10:04:04

oddly enough death angel thats what im actually getting lol

DEATH-ANGEL

2008-11-27 00:58:44

Yea I had to build a new rig because my old vid card died on my 939 system and so my new video card chosen was a GTX 260 and I'm maxing out all games at 1920x1200, including Crysis, Fallout 3, STALKER, Left 4 Dead, etc etc etc.

Obviously to do the above you would not want to have the rest of your system bottle necked, so it should be based off the rest of your system too.

scott5245

2008-11-27 01:02:49

yah im gonna go with a q9550 cpu so i should be good to go