Graphics Geforce 5500

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  1. A3D

    A3D What's a Dremel?

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    Ok guys, I am in desperate need of a graphics card right now. I need something to play battlefield 2 on. It doesnt have to be perfect video or anyhting, just something i can play on without it skipping. I was wondering if the geforce 5500 256mb would be any good for this or should i stick with the 5200. If i should stay with the 5200, please explain why. Thanks alot, Shawn :D BTW it has to be pci and nothing over a 100 dollars please.
     
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  2. pat1

    pat1 What's a Dremel?

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    I am also looking for a video card for my newly acquired pc.. don't know too much about pci video cards
     
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  3. Deathrow

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    You may find the skipping you speak of is actually caused by not having enough RAM.

    As for the graphics card. Grab yourself a 6600 GT 128mb.
     
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  4. A3D

    A3D What's a Dremel?

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    well i have 640 mg of RAM, so i believe i have enough,I will definitley look into that 6600 though, Thanks
     
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    A3D What's a Dremel?

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    Are you joking?

    You will never be able to play Battlefield 2 on that. I was running a gig and that wasent enough, going to 2 gig on the 25th.

    Seriously, you have no chance unless you have a gig of ram imo.
     
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    pat1 What's a Dremel?

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    thanks for the help...this answered my questions
     
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  8. Sea Shadow

    Sea Shadow aka "Panda"

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    My brothers machine manages to handle it, he only has 512MB of ram :rolleyes:

    Anyways, do my eyes decieve me or did i see PCI? As in, not PCI-E not AGP but PCI!?! Not to be rude or anything but, there is no way you are going to be able to play BF2 on a PCI video card... the absoloute lowest video cards you can play on is the NVidia GeForce FX 5700 Series. (I dunno for ATi)

    Granted you can hack it to run on slower cards, but it isnt pretty.
     
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  9. pat1

    pat1 What's a Dremel?

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    Unfortunately, a lot of vendors are leaving out agp slots... such as Dell and HP.. which really sucks if you want to upgrade
     
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    Sea Shadow aka "Panda"

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    I thought that was only on their older systems? All the new Dells and HP/Compaqs I have opened up have either AGP or PCI-E.
     
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    pat1 What's a Dremel?

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    HP is still doing it... for example, the 1240n desktop includes a 3 GHz processor and a gig of ram

    but only pci slots and onboard video
     
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    AWACS What's a Dremel?

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    hmmmz... that's a reason why build your own...
     
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    cjmUK Old git.

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    The lower model Dells are cheap as chips but they do this by only providing the bare essentials, eg. 2 RAM slots and no AGP/PCIe slots. The only option is to go for a PCI gfx card but I'm not sure they do PCI versions if the later cards.

    As for BF2, I wouldnt bother limping through with anything less than a R9800 or a GF6600.
     
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    A3D What's a Dremel?

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    Why is it so bad to have PCI? If i may ask. Is it because its based on old chipset? i dont know what to do here for a graphics card, is the pci performance that much worse than the agp? I have not really had expierience on pci. Thanks, Shawn
     
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    Limited choices with PCI, you might have noticed :p
     
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    A3D What's a Dremel?

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    Yes i did notice, even the biggest sellers have like little to no cards that will suit me. Its kinda of a kick in the balls knowing i may have to buy a new motherboard to play the games i want to play, Oh well i guess, thats life. :rolleyes:
     
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    PCI is sloooowwwwww.......

    From what I understand the PCI bus is shared across all PCI slots and has a max bandwidth of 133 MB/s (32 Bit PCI bus that is). By comparison an AGP 8x slot has 2.1 GB/s of bandwidth., and a 16x PCI-E slot can supply about 4 GB/s of bandwidth.

    Simply put PCI slots just can't feed enough data to a graphics card, thats why you only see the low end models as PCI cards.

    *now if someone who knows more comes along and finds an error, please correct me.
     
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    That is my understanding too. I'm not sure about the numbers exactly, but I agree with the theory...
     
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    LockmanX What's a Dremel?

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    Misguided much? I and my brother both run with 512 just fine. I agree that extra RAM does make a difference and that 2 gigs is pretty ideal for BF2 but by all means, 512 will not prevent anyhing.

    Computer performace does not equate to player performance either. I struggle with 15-28 FPS everyday and stll kick ass.
     
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  20. Guest-16

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    It wont prevent anything, cept you'll have to cache A LOT of stuff into pagefile which will make map loading, game loading, game exiting TAKE AGES. To some people, having the graphical quality at "very low" and letting it have large load timings is a normal event, but to others it's intollerable.

    Forget something PCI if you wanna play any 3D game made in the last few years.
     
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