Im thinking about picking up a new card for between 50-60$  Dont need the cats meow, and cant afford one too expensive.  I currently run
XP sp3 and have a PCIe slot in mobo, but ive read that PCIE2 Cards will work in PCIe1 slots as backwards compatibility.  Any suggestions on what to start looking at?

Slyder2k8 wrote on 10/30/9 at 12:48pm:



This one here is under 70$ and supports dual link where you can hook 2 up back to back and run much faster. Check it out.
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Here is a XFX GeForce 9500 gt 1gb. Didnt see power specs on it though maybe it will work

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[xXx]ihateu3 wrote on 11/04/9 at 6:25pm:


+1 also if ur running a motherboard with pcie u probally have an old cpu and ddr1. so basically if u were to upgrade to new video card more than likley your cpu will be bottlenecking your performance of your video card so its basically worthless to upgrade it. personally i would get new cpu,mobo,n ram. then get a new gpu

Currently my bottleneck IS my Graphics card. I have an  
Old 256mb ATI x1300 pro.  So almost any Graphics card upgrade is a huge help right now.  lol  I am running a Intel Core Duo E6600 (2.4Ghz x2) 2gigs DDR2 Ram.  I have one power supply running my mobo, and another one running harddrives, dvdrw drive, floppy and fans.  Cant afford to get new motherboard as its only 8months old right now.  

@hate u, I do like newegg, but i have also had a couple of bad experiences with them throughout the years.  Ive done tigerdirect too, you can have good and bad experiences at all the places imo.  I sometimes do the microcenter in mayfield so i dont have to wait and pay for shipping.  But im leaning towards newegg bc of what their stock is right now.  

I would pay up to $75 dollars for a card right now, bc Im saving $30 for the Win7 student upgrade.  My wife is a student and she would never b able to run it on her laptop.  Im planning on getting the 64 bit so when I can afford more Ram Ill be able to use it.  

bf2 already runs great on high settings, but i run it all at low
Im more interested in running other games at higher settings.
Just ordered
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came with World @ War for free, and also ordered Win7x64  
Thanks for the help guys!

[xXx]D3cIbeL wrote on 11/06/9 at 7:22am:


personally to me 75$ on "upgrading" a video card is pointless and a waste of money when it comes to price/performance. but if you have to do it get a 4650 or 9800GT

[xXx]D3cIbeL wrote on 11/23/9 at 4:35pm:


o no i forgot to say i had an ati x1300pro that played BF2 with no problem.

[xXx]brucebolivar wrote on 01/07/10 at 4:31pm:

nope it was in a dell dimension 8400 with e6700 dual core cpu and 2 gigs of ddr2 667, my x1300pro didnt even have a fan on it just passive cooling. it can and will handle bf2 on all low settings, but if the monitor is bigger that will cause problems.

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