My friend needs a Cheap card for WoW!!

[LouieV3]

He has a X200 integrated (plays it 10-15fps avg bleh!!) and he needs a good upgrade he has a 300w with 19a on the +12v and a PCI-X slot I was thinking a 7300GT But i dont know if that will max or play it well. I have a 7600GS and I max WoW with 40fps in the outlands and 60+ in small little places and buildings. But! I have vista and im sure that thats hogging my performance and he has XP 1gb and a 2ghz AMD XP @ 2.3ghz. Will the 7300GT do him good or is overkill and get a 7300GS?
Thanks

 

[r0x0r]

Get a 7600GS instead, the price difference between the two should be quite small. Unless you want him to get a 7300GT/S so you can still claim the faster PC

How did your friend get his 2000+ to 2.3Ghz? I'm running at 1667Mhz (133Mhz FSB).

 

[mrmez]

Duh....
Try this for a cheap card...

Cheap card

 

[Ananan]

The Ultra is under $700 dollars now.... :lol:
Grab one quick.

If your friend could just swing the extra bucks for a 7600 GT he'd have a lot more options as far as other games he could pay.

Side note - I played a ton of WoW on a laptop I bought last year that had 200 Xpress and a Turion. It ran very well; good FPS with no lag or graphical problems. Are you sure your friends PC doesn't have other problems?

 

[LouieV3]

hes not gonna play anything but wow with it and the 6600GT uses a lot of power. I was thinking of just getting thr 7300GT for him thanks.

 

[SEALBoy]

Try and see if you can find an X1300XT. According to the charts on THG, it either matches or exceeds the 7600GS in performance in most games.

 

[ikaz]

The 7300GT would work but if you can buy a 7600GS as other have suggested should be a little better performance for not much more.

http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics_2007.html?modelx=33&model1=717&model2=718&chart=318

 

[nukemaster]

How did your friend get his 2000+ to 2.3Ghz? I'm running at 1667Mhz (133Mhz FSB).

I think they mean a AthlonXP 2400+ (2.0ghz)

your 2000+ if its made before a certain month/year can be wire(pin) modded to up the multiplier and voltage

@ op the 7600gs(or better yet GT) is the best option.

 

[Anoobis]

There is quite a difference between a 7300GT and a 7600GS.

 

[ethel]

How cheap is cheap?

 

[r0x0r]

your 2000+ if its made before a certain month/year can be wire(pin) modded to up the multiplier and voltage

Tempting, but no thanks. My RAM sucks anyway and don't want to have to OC that as well. I might have this all wrong but I'd like to keep the RAM and FSB synchronous because, if I remember correctly, for old systems it's better to sacrifice a little bit of speed in order to keep the RAM and FSB synchronous.

Correct me if I'm wrong though.

 

[Xazax310]

"He has a X200 integrated (plays it 10-15fps avg bleh!!) and he needs a good upgrade he has a 300w with 19a on the +12v and a PCI-X slot I was thinking a 7300GT"

Wait, wait...i think were all missing here is that its a PCI-X..not a PCI-E those are two completely different things. if your friend does have a PCI-X slot and NO PCI-E then hes out of luck sorry.

 

[mtyermom]

"He has a X200 integrated (plays it 10-15fps avg bleh!!) and he needs a good upgrade he has a 300w with 19a on the +12v and a PCI-X slot I was thinking a 7300GT"

Wait, wait...i think were all missing here is that its a PCI-X..not a PCI-E those are two completely different things. if your friend does have a PCI-X slot and NO PCI-E then hes out of luck sorry.

I think you inferred that he meant a PCI slot, PCI-X has been used to mean PCI-eXpress before.

However, the OP should deffinitely make sure, definitively, that his friend has a PCI-(E)(X)press x16 slot available before a purchase is made.

LouieV3, can you find out the exact make and model of the motherboard for us?

 

[nukemaster]

your 2000+ if its made before a certain month/year can be wire(pin) modded to up the multiplier and voltage

Tempting, but no thanks. My RAM sucks anyway and don't want to have to OC that as well. I might have this all wrong but I'd like to keep the RAM and FSB synchronous because, if I remember correctly, for old systems it's better to sacrifice a little bit of speed in order to keep the RAM and FSB synchronous.

Correct me if I'm wrong though.

Well that's the beauty of changing the multi is the fsb stays the same.

lets use my 1800+ for example
see 133 x 11.5 1.53ghz (1529.5mhz)
now 133 x 14 2.0ghz (1995mhz) FREE upgrade But I rammed the sucker with voltage

 

[r0x0r]

Of course! Geez I can be slow sometimes..

I haven't delved into the bios for a while so I completely forgot about the multiplier lol.

Oh yeah congrats on the 1000th post. And you spent it on me 8) Way to waste your 1000th post lol.

j/k

edit: wrote voltage instead of multiplier. I'm not doing too well today lol

 

[nukemaster]

just remember they are multi locked. thats why I had to mod(place wires in the socket)

After a certain month/year they started super locking them. You had to cut the chips to fix this(not worth it to me, but mine was moddable with wires).

post count means nothing