Which video card

[Dead Bodies]

Originally Posted by Smeghead

I have a P4 3.0 gig CPU and 1GIG DDR Ram and a Radeon 7200 which is obvious a serious bottlekneck.
I was thinking about the ATI X1950. Anyone running that card with a P4 3.0 ?
How does Pirates run? Right now I have to play in 800*600 with medium settings and even then Port Royal is laggy and when you board a ship its ridiculous!

Any advice?

do you run servers? if not then why p3 id wrather have the AMD with the constant power level instead of the fluxuations with p3.

your first problem might be your ram, 1gb is cool but 2 gb sets you free in any game and situation. with game running your pc is prob over 60% processing... thats might be why your slow....

(ps pirates does not depend on your pc much if you read there tech files they setup the game to run the same speed for everyone *to avoid people from taking advantage of certin programs *verry little depends on your cpu. assumming you meet the requirements with your pc *wich it looks like*)


Now on to ATI i WAS an ATI fan untill they sold out. so your not buying ATI cards anymore just the name... and the new ones they are *censored* even though i dislike nvidia they are making some amazing cards now a days .

i go through cards like candy but i usually buy two Geforce 7800's + and run them togeather for amazing stabality. ( dont know if you can crossfire... on your mother board)

Or look into the Fatalty series *lifetime guarantee*

hope it helps... sorry about my english

[Smeghead]

So a dual core CPU works like Hyperthreading?
Does windows see 2 virtual CPUs in task manager? If so thats not so good as most applications wont utilize the second one

[Eloricth]

Yes and no... A dual core is literally that -- it has two cores. HTT is a technology that Intel uses that, from my understanding, allows multithreading of processes. This allows the CPU to process more than one process at a time, but it does not make it a dual core CPU. I don't know what it shows in the task manager for a single core with HTT, but for a dual core, it does show activity and usage on both cores.

To Dead Bodies: I ran SLi for a good while. Across both 6x & 7x series nVidia cards. They STILL don't have SLi to a point where it outperforms a single card config enough to justify the money needed to get two cards. You'd do better to take the money from the dual 7800's and buy a single 8800GT 512 (G92). Best-bang-for-your-buck card on the market at the moment.

Check out XFX's line of nVidia cards. Double lifetime warranty that isn't voided if you overclock. Works for me!

-Elo

[Dead Bodies]

Originally Posted by Eloricth

To Dead Bodies: I ran SLi for a good while. Across both 6x & 7x series nVidia cards. They STILL don't have SLi to a point where it outperforms a single card config enough to justify the money needed to get two cards. You'd do better to take the money from the dual 7800's and buy a single 8800GT 512 (G92). Best-bang-for-your-buck card on the market at the moment.
-Elo

8800GT 512 (G92). -Its going to be something like 280$ and according to all reviews I find it is barely a step below the ultra/gtx of current design. If i was going to spend the money and get a single card id hold out for GTX series or wait for 88xx it should be falling under 300 soon.

(yes i know its worth 400+ but the gtx prices have ben falling steady.)

so thats why i spend 70 bucks a peice and run two...




The 8800 GTX is still the fastest card. It's just that the number of stream processors make a much bigger impact on performance than width of the memory bus, especially on the 8800's which already have alot of bandwidth.


... i really got to get around to building that new case MORE COLD AIR!

Dead Bodies

[Smeghead]

Well I just bought this:

Processor Type: Intel Pentium D processor 925
Frequence: 3.0 GHz
FSB: 800 MHz
Cache: 4 MB

2GB 800MHz DDR2 PC6400 RAM Memory

and im probably going to get:
Nvida GeForce 8600GT 8600 GT PCI-E

[Eloricth]

Cool. Yah, the prices on all of the 88xx Gxx cards will be dropping since the 9xxx cards are just around the corner with DX10.1 and whatnot... And yah, if you've got the extra cash to drop for GTX's, by all means, go with that, but most of us don't. Though I bet we wish we did! lol

Anyway, it's an awesome technology, but it's not perfect...yet. Look at benchmarks for SLi enabled games. From what I've seen, you're only looking at a 10-15 FPS increase AT MOST for another $250-$400. Not QUITE worth it to me.

-Elo

Originally Posted by Dead Bodies

8800GT 512 (G92). -Its going to be something like 280$ and according to all reviews I find it is barely a step below the ultra/gtx of current design. If i was going to spend the money and get a single card id hold out for GTX series or wait for 88xx it should be falling under 300 soon.

(yes i know its worth 400+ but the gtx prices have ben falling steady.)

so thats why i spend 70 bucks a peice and run two...




The 8800 GTX is still the fastest card. It's just that the number of stream processors make a much bigger impact on performance than width of the memory bus, especially on the 8800's which already have alot of bandwidth.


... i really got to get around to building that new case MORE COLD AIR!

Dead Bodies