Need Afordable Good Video Card

[havax]

Hey all.

I am loooking for a good graphics card. I am a hardcore gamer. I play Call of Duty competively, and have a 9600XT. It has semmed to always work smoothely runnning FPS never lower than 45 and usually around 60 with low to normal settings on. I just want to be able to run a soild FPS at 125 with medium to high settings on. I would like this card to be ready to take on games easily and powerfully to come out in at least a year from now. I wouldn't like to spend over $200, but the lower the better. I would just like a card that will do this for me. I will NOT overclock anything. Also, in the meantime, do you have any good tips on boosting my FPS performance with the card I have now? I also have a 2.6 P4, and 1GBDDR.

Thanks.

 

[bosshoss]

You could probably pick up a 9800pro for $200 or under which would be an ok upgrade, I dont know if it would really be worth it though in your case. I have the same card and I tried using riva-tuner to pick up a few extra FPS and it worked pretty well. Just start OC'ing in little increments and when you see "artifacts" on the screen, start backing off. I got to about 530mhz on the core before it started showing errors.


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[sturm]

With that budget, $200, your not really going to get any better than what you have. To really notice a difference in gameing you will need to go to the newer cards or at least a 9800 pro or nvidia equivalent. Just make sure that the card uses the 256 bit memory instead of the 128 bit

 

[pauldh]

YUp, I don't think $200 will do it for you. Either being happy with what you have, or Overclocking the video card and CPU are the best solutions for now.


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[HardWareBoss]

Time to buy new vid card.