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Category:	Source General Gaming Valve's Source engine games - general game questions, comments, and chat.
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Topic: which card wins?

Toasty

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Category: Source General Gaming Posted: Tuesday, Jun. 21, 2005 02:15 pm
About to buy a new graphics card and was wondering if anyone knew which card was better, in overall performance. Im mainly getting it for HL2/CS:S so does anyone know which card would perform best? ATI 9250 GeForce FX 5500 Thanks
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Category: Source General Gaming Posted: Tuesday, Jun. 21, 2005 02:19 pm
i would go for the ati 9250
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Toasty

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Category: Source General Gaming Posted: Tuesday, Jun. 21, 2005 02:20 pm
just curious, why do you think its better? thanks
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Category: Source General Gaming Posted: Tuesday, Jun. 21, 2005 02:24 pm
I would choose the nvidia 6800 ultra. Widely accepted compatibility with games. I just ran into an issue where I purchased a new card (installed today). It was an nvidia 6600 with 256Mb. I wanted it to play BF2 Demo. Turns out that BF2 doesn't support this particular card which would explain my crashes. My buddy a few feet away can play the demo without problems on his 6800 ultra pcie. I can play it fine at home but I can't remember the card I have there. I also support nvidia over ati, but I don't want to get into that battle here.
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Category: Source General Gaming Posted: Tuesday, Jun. 21, 2005 02:31 pm
Im not looking for the best card out there...I think the 6800 would be out of my pricerange. Im hoping the ATI 9250 or the FX5500 will run HL2/CS:S on decent graphics. Thanks edited on Jun. 21, 2005 09:38 am by \|UKY\|Toasty
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Category: Source General Gaming Posted: Tuesday, Jun. 21, 2005 02:37 pm
I think I have the 5700 at home. DO NOT use the 5200.
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Category: Source General Gaming Posted: Tuesday, Jun. 21, 2005 02:39 pm
I read somewhere that the GeForce FX 5000 series does not run HL2 very good, is this true? Also, do you think 512mb ram would be good enough for decent loading/gameplay?
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Category: Source General Gaming Posted: Tuesday, Jun. 21, 2005 02:44 pm
If I do indeed have the 5700 at home.. it runs great. As for 512Ram, that is pretty low. It will run, but I think you should consider moving up to 1Gb
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Category: Source General Gaming Posted: Tuesday, Jun. 21, 2005 02:45 pm
What is your price range as I got a GeForce FX5700LE for £80 two months back and now it is around £60 or so down the pc fair. If they have a pc fair near you it is worth having a look down there Here is the link to there web sit http://www.britishcomputerfairs.com/
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Category: Source General Gaming Posted: Tuesday, Jun. 21, 2005 02:48 pm
lol Im american. the two I have posted at the beggining are the only PCI cards in my pricerange (100-130ish dollars), it has to be between them two. edited on Jun. 21, 2005 09:48 am by \|UKY\|Toasty
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