Video Card Possibilities

[Tunarle]

Hi, I'm sure you've heard this a thousand times, but I would like to know what video card I should be looking at. First of all I'll tell you my current situation.

Here's my system setup
600mhz athlon (original slot a)
384mb ram (sdram)
agp 2x slot with a voodoo3 3500

I love my voodoo3 3500, but it's finally to the point where I think I need to upgrade. I can run unreal2003 fine on normal settings in 800*600 mode, until I get to the bigger levels and then I can tell the game has problems working with only 16mb of video memory. So I guess what I'm asking is what video card can I look at, without upgrading my overall computer. My overall goal is to play Unreal 2003, GTA3, and Hitman 2 with nearly everything set to max, so what video card can I go with for this? maybe I'm dreaming about turning all the options on with my cpu limiting me so much, but I don't exactly have the dough to buy a new computer, but I probably can scrounge of some money for a new video card, so what would you guys recommend? I was thinking about a ati radeon 9000 pro, but I'd like to hear some other opinions

Thanks!

 

[nemesismk2]

Originally posted by: Tunarle
Hi, I'm sure you've heard this a thousand times, but I would like to know what video card I should be looking at. First of all I'll tell you my current situation.

Here's my system setup
600mhz athlon (original slot a)
384mb ram (sdram)
agp 2x slot with a voodoo3 3500

I love my voodoo3 3500, but it's finally to the point where I think I need to upgrade. I can run unreal2003 fine on normal settings in 800*600 mode, until I get to the bigger levels and then I can tell the game has problems working with only 16mb of video memory. So I guess what I'm asking is what video card can I look at, without upgrading my overall computer. My overall goal is to play Unreal 2003, GTA3, and Hitman 2 with nearly everything set to max, so what video card can I go with for this? maybe I'm dreaming about turning all the options on with my cpu limiting me so much, but I don't exactly have the dough to buy a new computer, but I probably can scrounge of some money for a new video card, so what would you guys recommend? I was thinking about a ati radeon 9000 pro, but I'd like to hear some other opinions

Thanks!

I think a Radeon 9000 Pro would be a good choice, however Ut2003 is very demanding and I don't think you'll be running it with max settings with your cpu.

 

[AnAndAustin]

Your CPU will hold any modern game and certainly half decent gfx card back. GF4MX, Rad9000PRO and Rad8500LE are really your wisest choices. With prices so cheap for AthlonXP and SktA it makes snese to upgrade as it should only cost you $100ish for XP1800+ speed!

This may be necessary as you specify AGP2x AGP slot. This means it is more likely to be AGP1.0 (didn't think any Athlon mobos were though) which will almost definitely be problematic with any relatively modern gfx card, a Rad9000 (std) may be doable but you may need to consider a PCI card or else upgrade that mobo now.

 

[MusicSoundsBetterWithYou]

hey...grab urself a slot a tbird(prolly about 40-60) and a radeon 9000 normal or radeon 8500 instead of the pro...

if u wanna upgrade with a system thatll be expandable and use ur ram...
KT133A ~55+Duron 950/1.3 ~30-37+Radeon 8500 ~$85?

ur choice...theres planty out there with AMD platforms