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November 6th, 2005, 03:28 PM
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Yes, the 6600 GT will be better than the x700. 
Your system looks fine for BF2...but you will have to keep it at medium settings I would say. | 
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November 6th, 2005, 03:35 PM
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Ok thanks so much for your help, i asked the same question in another forum and i just got flamed for asking if a celeron would run battlefield 2, and i quote
"No coz that thing has got as much power in it as my calculator"
Anyway thanks very much for replying.  | |
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November 6th, 2005, 04:00 PM
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sorry for posting so many questions but i have just found a PowerColor X800 GT Xtreme 256MB for £107 now this is about the same price as the 6600GT 128mb would the geforce still be better or would the X800 be better?
also would i see a great deal of improvement from the x700 with the x800 GT EX?
Thanks again!
Last edited by Laurie05 : November 6th, 2005 at 04:08 PM.
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November 6th, 2005, 04:17 PM
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November 6th, 2005, 04:21 PM
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ok then thanks so i take it that it is worth the extra £10 for the GTO version? | |
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November 6th, 2005, 06:55 PM
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Can I just add while I am here, i have an ECS board for the athlon chip with the dual graphics slots. One warning for you is the AGP is an emulated slot and there is achance that an agp card wil not work on the board. FX5200 do but it isn't very good. So you should be looking at getting the PCI- e card. The PCI - e port on these mobos are fully compliant. | |
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November 6th, 2005, 07:06 PM
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If you want to go for the x800gto, I'd recommend the Connect 3D version. http://www.savastore.com/productinfo...07&rstrat=3165
It has a great track record for being flashed to a x850xt (with slightly slower memory), something you may want to do down the road when newer games start to make it seem slow. | |
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November 6th, 2005, 07:29 PM
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November 7th, 2005, 12:01 PM
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JLK03F150 thanks for the info i wasnt aware of that. If i did want to do it how would i go about doing it? | |
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November 7th, 2005, 03:26 PM
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Here you go. The article primarily talks about the Sapphire X800GTO2 flash - which can reach X800XT PE speeds - but also mentions the Connect 3D mod. It pretty easy to flash the bios of a video card. I've done several of them over the years. http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/...ng/vidcard/127 | |
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