New gfx card for friend

[plagiarist]

My friend has a geforce 4 mx440. He has a budget of 150$ and wants to play BF2 with me.

His specs are 1 gig regular ram, 3.1ghz intel.

I have a Radeon 9600 256mb DDR which only cost me 120$ around eight months ago. What would be a good option for him? Things like mine that I was looking at:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductLi...ry=0&minPrice=&maxPrice=&Go.x=0&Go.y=0

 

[suicidalpigeon]

6800nu then unlock and overclock it, its a more viable solution than a 6600gt right now with it's price.

edit: actually i jsut checked on egg and they least 180. get the 6600gt.

 

[plagiarist]

anyone else?

 

[Wall7486]

You are going to want a Native DirectX9 video card. So definitely the 9600 is not a good option. I would say most people here would suggest a 6600GT with that kind of budget.

 

[Valkerie]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102299
this one comes with a heatsink if you plan on overclocking

...otherwise get this model, which will save you an extra PCI slot:

I recommend this model since with the shipping included on the price tag, it will even out at around a little under ~150 USD -
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102286

9800 Pro is much better than a 9600 XT because the memory interface which is 256-bit plus, regardless of the core-clock and memory clock rates, will perform much faster with its more powerful graphics engine.

 

[Valkerie]

Originally posted by: Wall7486
You are going to want a Native DirectX9 video card. So definitely the 9600 is not a good option. I would say most people here would suggest a 6600GT with that kind of budget.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814108148

It is mentioned widely over the Internet that the 6600 will outkill any generation below it. However, you'll have to put up an extra $15 for the card including shipping & handling. The Radeon 9800 Pro will handle the game just as fine.

 

[nick1985]

256 RAM on a 9600 does nothing because the GPU is to slow to utilize that much video RAM. and actually, the 128 meg 9600's are FASTER than the 256's. Its a marketing ploy, and thats all it is...

 

[zerocool84]

Originally posted by: Valkerie

Originally posted by: Wall7486
You are going to want a Native DirectX9 video card. So definitely the 9600 is not a good option. I would say most people here would suggest a 6600GT with that kind of budget.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814108148

It is mentioned widely over the Internet that the 6600 will outkill any generation below it. However, you'll have to put up an extra $15 for the card including shipping & handling. The Radeon 9800 Pro will handle the game just as fine.

a 6600gt that needs a molex connector on it??????

 

[suicidalpigeon]

yes

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Pretty darn cheap