2 gb of ram and a p4 3ghz

You're in reasonably good shape here. Once you upgrade your video card, I think you may be quite pleased with the performance you'll be able to achive.

You guys seem pretty well versed in 3D cards. Gotta get me a good one of those one day... until then, well, I have a Radeon 9800 Pro with 256 ram.

If I were to give you some specs on my motherboard could you guys tell me the best performing card on my POS computer? What would you upgrade your card to WITH MY MOTHERBOARD or am I right and I have upgraded as far as I can go?

Here are my motherboard specs:

Board: Intel Corporation D845EBG2 AAA83975-205
Serial Number: CF2B22402624
Bus Clock: 133 megahertz
BIOS: Intel Corp. PT84520A.86A.0015.P08.0302261328

What's the motherboard model and brand. More importantly, is it AGP or PCI-E. Either way, there are plenty of cards out that are far better than your current one, in both formats. So there is room for improvement.
But SH4 will be processor and RAM reliant too, so they will also need to be up to speed.

Here's more of my stuff. Thanks for responding so fast. Like I said, I need at least your top two recommendations that will work in my POS.



Operating System System Model

Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 1 (build 2600) Intel Corporation Processor a Main Circuit Board b 2.80 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4
8 kilobyte primary memory cache
512 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: Intel Corporation D845EBG2 AAA83975-205
Serial Number: CF2B22402624
Bus Clock: 133 megahertz
BIOS: Intel Corp. PT84520A.86A.0015.P08.0302261328 02/26/2003 Drives Memory Modules c,d 40.01 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
12.91 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

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SONY DVD-ROM DDU1621 [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

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WIBU - CodeMeter-Stick USB Device [Hard drive] (2 MB) -- drive 1 1024 Megabytes Installed Memory

Slot 'J6G2' has 512 MB
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Your system doesn't look too bad. Any card will work, compatibility issues are rare, BUT, you need to know if you have an AGP slot or a PCI-Express slot. That is the only area that you really need to be concerned about in terms of compatibility. If you still have your motherboard or graphics card manual, it will tell you in one of those.

There ar still decent cards around for each slot type (AGP is older). I'm willing to bet yours is AGP. Just depends on what you're willing to spend.

What Boris said. :yep:

My 9800 Pro is using the AGP slot right now. :)

Recs?

@ Boris: Good guess. That Intel mainboard (D845EBG2), is an AGP based board.

@ Snakeeyes: I noticed you have a WIBU CodeMeter-Stick. Are you an SB Pro PE player perchance?

Of course. :)

Hehe, good to see a fellow tanker! :up:

My Dad was a REAL tanker. :)


I've noticed your great graphics advice Flintlock - it's the reason why I decided to post my questions here.

What AGP card do your recommend? I'm looking for something about $200.00 that will make SHIV look great and speed up my framerate in SB Pro.

If your target is around $200.00, I'd seriously consider a Radeon X1950 Pro. It's basically the most powerful card you can get for the AGP bus today, and if I were in your shoes, that's what I'd be picking up. The added bonus is the card will make you system a viable gaming platform for a while longer (that's always a good thing for the wallet).

Good luck in whatever you decide.

Thanks Bud.

id say save up a few hundred dollars (around 600ish$$) and wait for the ubergod ati R600 dx 10 to come out in late march early april, hope u will like SH4 on high definition 1080P :rock::rock::rock:

Fastest AGP card around ifs the GeForce 7800 GS.

I traded up to one from a 9800 Pro and there was no comparison. BFG makes the one I have and it has been a joy to own.

You will need a big case, though!

JCC

Performance wise, the 7800 GS is about on par with the Radeon X1950 Pro. The 7800 GS is also more expensive than the X1950 Pro. I like the 7800 GS, though for the money and performance, I feel the Radeon is a little better deal.

Yes , some cards have more memory, 256 but with a slown and cheaper memory

A good idea before buy a card is compare the nanosecons (ns) specs

If you have the patience, and money, I suggest going to a PCI-E compatable motherboard.

I also appreciate of excellence of SB Pro, although I'm not too good at it.