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Simon Tibbett

Simon Tibbett

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Hey,

I guess this would go here. Ok, I have a 'family' used Dell out in the living room with a cable modem so I will go out there and download demos to a CDR and play them in our room because I dont have a cable modem. However, the gameplay seems slower for what it should be on a brand new PC. Is this because of the CDR disc or my PC? I only have a Celeron at 1.8GHZ but it should be faster then what it is, trust me!!!!! Thanks!
 
It has nothing to do with a CD-R disc and everything to do with your PC. Just because it is "new" doesn't mean it is faster than the Dell in your living room. Celeron processors are not great for playing games. They don't have enough L2 cache compared to Pentium 4 or Athlon processors running at the same speed (1.8 GHz).
 
The speed of a PC has little to nothing to do with how well games run nowadays (it still has a little though, but anything over 1 gig is fine.) You problem lies in either how much ram you have, or the Video card.
Odds are in a machine that has a celeron processor, it will have a low end video card. Find out what type of card it has, and I'll bet you find your problem. I'm betting on an ATI rage, or a Geforce MX type card.
 
I went to the store and almost got a GeForce card, it was only 99 bucks and not the best but ok. Where is a good place for ram and how much is good?
 
I wouldn't get any card less powerful than the ati 8500 or a Geforce 3 Ti series (No MX cards, even the GF4's) because you are going to find yourself spending 100 dollars on something that isn't going to improve the situation, and definitely won't be powerful enough for this next generation of games (Doom 3 is going to need a very powerful PC to run.)
 
definately newegg, best site.

Tell me how much you want to spend and I can tell you which cards to look for. Or atleast the chipset.

I havent looked up stuff recently. But I think the cards to look for are ATI 8500, gf4 ti4200, or ATI 9500 pro. The ati 9000 is just a slower version of the 8500. The 9000 replaced the 8500 to fit at the low end market better. All of these cards are direct x 8 compatible and I think the 9500 might have some extra goodies. Depending on how cheap you can find an 8500 and how much you want to spend, the g4f ti4200 or 8500 might be better. the 8500 is a bit slower but when I bought mine it cost $95, while gf4 ti4200s cost $150. The 8500 is only about 10-15% slower.

Try and stay away from geforce mx cards. they are for people that dont know very much about computers. Geforce 4 mx cards are only just superfast geforce 1 cards. They cant render all of the cool new direct x thingies.
 
Originally posted by advanR
definately newegg, best site.

Tell me how much you want to spend and I can tell you which cards to look for. Or atleast the chipset.

I havent looked up stuff recently. But I think the cards to look for are ATI 8500, gf4 ti4200, or ATI 9500 pro. The ati 9000 is just a slower version of the 8500. The 9000 replaced the 8500 to fit at the low end market better. All of these cards are direct x 8 compatible and I think the 9500 might have some extra goodies. Depending on how cheap you can find an 8500 and how much you want to spend, the g4f ti4200 or 8500 might be better. the 8500 is a bit slower but when I bought mine it cost $95, while gf4 ti4200s cost $150. The 8500 is only about 10-15% slower.

Try and stay away from geforce mx cards. they are for people that dont know very much about computers. Geforce 4 mx cards are only just superfast geforce 1 cards. They cant render all of the cool new direct x thingies.
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Im a current user of the 9500Pro and well you get just about everything you need with this card. DX9 support, AGP 8x, Composite and s-video cables, s-video to composite adapter, and a DVI to VGA dongle. All pretty good for just over $200. I bet you can find it online for about half that price though.
 
yea, the 9500 pro is awesome. Online price should be around $180, Im not sure. If he wants to spend less though I suggested the ti4200, because i think he can find that for $100 or so. not a bad card either.

I read the 9500 pro's performance is a bit worse than the ti4600, but with aa and af on it kills it.
 
I'd wait until the GeForce FX comes out. The current benchmarks shows it doubling the speed of the 9700 on Quake III.
 
thats a joke. anyone with semi new hardware gets 500+ fps in quake 3 anyways. and there is no way in hell the geforce fx is going to be twice as fast as the radeon. It was originally expected that it would be just modestly faster, but now i think it is showing that they may be in a dead heat.

always waiting for the next stuff to come out will leaving you without a card for a long time. you dont probably want to spend $400 on a video card then anyways. Yes, maybe other cards will drop in price, but how long will it be? If it will be the next couple of months, than sure, wait.
 

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