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Name: theviragoman
Date: November 26, 2004 at 05:44:16 Pacific
OS: Windows xp
CPU/Ram: hp havilion 780n/ 512 MBR
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I've just got into computer gaming, it's very fun, but my question is what is the best video card for under sixty dollars, the video card I have now was the stock one, and America's Army, and Battlefield Vietnam just dont look the way they should. Please post links or other info to help me out. Thanks



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Name: Hooner
Date: November 26, 2004 at 07:13:28 Pacific
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Sixty bucks?

Tricky.

With that budget your best bet would be an nVidia FX5200, a crap card really, but the best DirectX 9 card there is for that sort of money.

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Response Number 2
Name: Avarik
Date: November 26, 2004 at 10:42:44 Pacific
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NOT the 5200, get the GeForce 4 Ti. (64MB)

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Response Number 3
Name: Fishystix
Date: November 26, 2004 at 11:29:20 Pacific
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Depends if you want directx9 support. Otherwise the GEforce 4 ti is faster.


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Response Number 4
Name: snoopy104
Date: November 26, 2004 at 16:54:33 Pacific
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I'd say that the Nvidia Geforce 6800 128mb is the best bang for buck card at the moment, but it costs more than $60, either save up a bit, write a nice letter to santa or go for a Geforce4 Ti series as suggested.

I have a Geforce4 Ti4200 128mb at the moment, I am planning on upgrading soon but it's still a great card, it runs Doom3/Farcry etc on medium with ease. Not bad for a 2 year old card!

The FX5200 does have Dx9 support, but the card it slow, I'm not sure that many game publishers regard it as true Dx9 because it's too weak to run all the Dx9 eye-candy at reasonable levels.

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Response Number 5
Name: NVIDIAGAMER
Date: November 29, 2004 at 11:43:01 Pacific
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Whoa! 60 Bucks???? You crazy man! Save up about triple that and get a decent card. I just got a Rosewill FX59XT (Based on Nvidia's GeForce FX 5900XT) and it plays everything i throw at it! I play older games over LAN (Serious Sam 2, Quake 2) and Single Player games (Red Faction 2, Two 2) and it handles everything in stride! Woot Woo!

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Geforce 4 fx5200 128mb pc... mohpa on p3?



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