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comic_guy04
07-28-2007, 04:29 AM
Hey there gamer people, I bought COH/COV a while back to learn that my graphics wont support this bad ass looking game. Well it's high time I bought a new card and i'm gonna do it today so if anyone has a specific card they use that's within the $100 range please let me know. :joker:
Havok83
07-28-2007, 06:06 AM
Id recomment the 8600GT. Its what I have and it runs great. It is direct X 10 capable and can run pretty much everything thats out right now. Id search around for prices but you should be able to get it for around $120ish with some sales
comic_guy04
07-29-2007, 12:29 AM
Id recomment the 8600GT. Its what I have and it runs great. It is direct X 10 capable and can run pretty much everything thats out right now. Id search around for prices but you should be able to get it for around $120ish with some sales

yeah I went to my local Staples and bought an ATI Radeon stealth diamond 9250 for about $104.00 us. It isn't top of the line but it's a decent little 256mb PCI card. wish I had PCIe but I don't lol. But thanks all the same since your the only one who's replied.
Apollo
08-02-2007, 03:56 PM
go 8800 Ultra SLI!! :woot: ......:cwink:
XtromaniaK
08-02-2007, 03:59 PM
go 8800 Ultra SLI!! :woot: ......:cwink:

That would be absolutely insane. :wow:
WhatsHisFace
08-02-2007, 04:52 PM
Anything less than 9900 is crap.
XtromaniaK
08-02-2007, 04:58 PM
Anything less than 9900 is crap.


They.. haven't made those yet.. :csad:
GFreeman
08-03-2007, 01:47 AM
WhatsHisFace's mind was destroyed in a sky diving accident :(

Anyways, I got a 8600, I'm pretty happy with it. It kills anything I've tried to play.
TheCorpulent1
08-03-2007, 08:30 AM
Hmm, isn't upgrading to a decent card without a PCI-E slot tough at this point? I still have an old motherboard with an AGP graphics card.
GFreeman
08-03-2007, 08:38 AM
Nvidia is making a dx10 card for AGP (http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37790). But yeah, generally AGP cards are becoming harder to find I think.
TheCorpulent1
08-03-2007, 08:43 AM
Eh, I'm gonna upgrade to a better processor eventually anyway, which means a new MB that I will make sure has a PCI-E slot or two.
GFreeman
08-03-2007, 04:23 PM
For the OP, make sure to buy from either newegg.com or tigerdirect.com, you can usually save quite a bit of money on those two, provided you know what to look for.
WhatsHisFace
08-03-2007, 05:22 PM
AGP isn't allowed to go the way of PCI. Maybe they'll make an AGP Express one day, even though it sounds like Coffee.
GFreeman
08-04-2007, 03:14 AM
AGP is already practically dead. I don't think they're making mobo's anymore that don't have at least one pci-e slot.
TheCorpulent1
08-04-2007, 09:37 AM
They are. They're just in very short supply, or they're really cheap boards for non-gaming computers. Odds are, however, if the board does have a PCI-E slot, it probably won't have an AGP slot as well. The PCI-E has displaced the AGP almost completely on newer boards.
strikezone89
08-19-2007, 09:06 PM
go 8800 Ultra SLI!! :woot: ......:cwink:

my bro has one
Danger Mouse
08-28-2007, 04:57 AM
Just bought an 8500GT and jacked up the virtual memory to 10GB/12GB. Beautiful...