Thanx for the reply, flintlock:up:. I might have a go at this! :yep:

id save the money.........again.

and get this over the £205 card you looked at, but i suppose it depends if you have a pref to ATI or nvidia stuff.

just seems better value to me, I dont think 512meg will have much impact on sh4.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...odid=GX-071-HT

in fact they list a 512 version too, £158.

OK, and my question is: nVidia or ATI chipset? GeForce or Radeon? I dont know any ATI card since 1999 when I had ATI RagePro card. :-)

I suppose thats really personal choice, regarding the cards were looking at here.
But you confuse me with the term "chipset" as that doesnt have to be ATI or NVIDIA, what about VIA or INTEL.

For the simple matter of buying an agp card for SH4, now today.
I would get the most for the money, that X1950 is the better price, and will do all the fancy bits that the 7800 will do in lamens terms, and probably has more horsepower, if your cpu can supply any ;)

However of course we might see a new card on AGP that does DX10, although others are more sceptical about this happening, i wouldnt rule it out!

nice find, mate! I have some thinking to do now...! :up::up:

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What about my GeForce 7600GS 256MB......AGPx4?

The question, is I'm using a AMD AthlonXP @2200 (1800Mhz) and 512x2 333Mhz RAM on ASUS MoBo, that only suports AGPx4, not x8.

Maybe can I consider buy a mixed MoBo with AGPx8 slot & PCIExpress.
Doing it, I must buy a new micro, may be new RAM...duno what to do..

.-zalox

Hello, mate!

You cant get both AGP and PCI-Express on the same mobo, and if you are planning to buy something, make sure its PCI Express and that the mobo supports DDR 2 RAM, anything else is a waste now.

I think you will just scrape by with your current setup in SH4.


My estimate for enjoying (yes, the game will RUN on less) SH4:

At least 1GB RAM (preferable DDR2)
3ghz Intel or AMD equilent (AMD processors 2ghz and up)
7600GT and up (not very much I can say about Radeon)

This is my estimate for MEDIUM settings. Below this and I think you will be disappointed. I may be wrong, of course, but if I am I will be very surprised.

An equivalent to the above is a Radeon X1650 XT.