no real budget as such. just looking for a card that will make the system workable for at least a year (being optimistic). saw real time how fast a 64MB top Nvidia card was out for being a BAD BOY to a wimpy. 6800 series and the 6600 ones you mentioned are the AGP slot ones right? here in...
i'm looking for an 8X AGP card with 256MB memory. whats the best performing cards? if the answer can be put in price ranges would be great. not too fond of Ati but open to suggestions. currently on a 5600XT with 128 MB memory and is a bottleneck in overall system performace. not looking at PCI...
followup query
thnx for the confirmation. no casual gaming here but on a self imposed budget for now. was playing KOTOR 2 and some parts were slow and unresponsive. ended up overclocking the card and seemed to work but is the graphics card's clock speed as important as the amount of memory...
Bottleneck
Assembled my AMD 64 unit with following config:
AMD 64 754 pin 3000+
Asus K8S-MX
512 RAM 333Mhz SINGLE
128MB 5600XT nVidia
120 GB Seagate SATA HDD
Creative 5.1 Live!
Using 3DMark 05, I got a lousy mark of 240. I'm sure there be plenty of bottlenecks preventing a better...
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