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Originally Posted by SurfnSea
Thanks for the replies. What you all say makes sense. By a very odd coincidence I got a decent little extra paycheck (seems the school district I teach in values us and gave teachers a retroactive raise). Hmmm, whatever shall I do with a piece of it? While I ponder this tough decision I'll continue to take my slooow boat to China.
Cheers,
SurfnSea
Update: I can get the following card for about 80.00: Diamond Viper Radeon X1650 Pro 512mb (PCI). If I'm looking at the Tom's Hardware chart correctly then that should be enough,no?
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I have the exact same CPU as you, and the AGP version of the card you mentioned (with 256MB DDR 3 memory). Running both the CPU and the graphics card overclocked, I can get playable FPS most of the times, with 2xAA and 4xAF, and with settings pretty much maxed at 1024x768, plus the whole ROW package except hi-res seafoam (
this may answer peabody's question). It does get ugly in stormy weather, though. My verdict is your CPU will bottle-neck the graphics card, so if I knew better before throwing away 75 Euros for that graphics card a couple of months ago, I'd start saving money for a new rig. At least, I get to see some of the late LeoVampire's work in (almost) its full glory, and just for that it was well worth it.
