Hi all, looking for a bit of advice.
Might be looking to upgrade the video card in my system. Currently running a P3-800 with 512MB of RAM with a TNT2 Ultra on an Asus P3B-F motherboard. I don't have near the time to game that I used to so as such I am way out of the loop as far as upgrading is concerned. The ONLY reason I am looking to a possible upgrade is because of Neverwinter Nights as I expect this to be about the only game I play for a while(again, just not much time to play so picking one game and sticking with it).
Anyway, what would be a decent card to pick up for a good price? Looking at spending around $100. Cheap by most people's standards, but then again, my caring about FPS days are WAY behind me now. I'm simply looking to cheaply upgrade the performance of my video as I expect I'll need a little boost to play NWN and have a decent video card to last another year or two.
Would a GeForce 4 MX card be the way to go, or with my lowly 800MHZ processor, would a GeForce2 MX type card be good? The GeForce 3 cards I see are still a little more money than I wanna spend.
--==EDIT==--
Was doing some more reading about the MX line of cards, and understand they are not fully DX 8/8.1 compliant. Does this seem to be an issue in games...or do the few things the MX cards don't do in DX 8 really not a big deal? Also, how are the ATI line of value cards?
Any input would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Siltin
Might be looking to upgrade the video card in my system. Currently running a P3-800 with 512MB of RAM with a TNT2 Ultra on an Asus P3B-F motherboard. I don't have near the time to game that I used to so as such I am way out of the loop as far as upgrading is concerned. The ONLY reason I am looking to a possible upgrade is because of Neverwinter Nights as I expect this to be about the only game I play for a while(again, just not much time to play so picking one game and sticking with it).
Anyway, what would be a decent card to pick up for a good price? Looking at spending around $100. Cheap by most people's standards, but then again, my caring about FPS days are WAY behind me now. I'm simply looking to cheaply upgrade the performance of my video as I expect I'll need a little boost to play NWN and have a decent video card to last another year or two.
Would a GeForce 4 MX card be the way to go, or with my lowly 800MHZ processor, would a GeForce2 MX type card be good? The GeForce 3 cards I see are still a little more money than I wanna spend.
--==EDIT==--
Was doing some more reading about the MX line of cards, and understand they are not fully DX 8/8.1 compliant. Does this seem to be an issue in games...or do the few things the MX cards don't do in DX 8 really not a big deal? Also, how are the ATI line of value cards?
Any input would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Siltin
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