Buying a PC solely for SH3!! Please Advise.

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Originally Posted by kiwi_2005

Of course its a POS but my mate runs SH3 good using this card, There are so many versions of the 6200, the one to get is the one with the fan. Because the poster is low on cash i recommended a cheap card for him. But reading Gizzmoe's post further up, i didn't know the ATI X700, 256MB, PCI-Express were going for $100. This card would be way better. The 6600GT is a good card, but it will cost him more.

I think x700 can do his job with no problem, i'm using a laptop with Centrino and an integrated x600, only with intensive graphic mods or UC (actually i'm trying the Ducimus version, same problem) i have real problem with slow fps, but with stock or old harbour traffic no problem.
I'm not even sure that the ati card is the real problem, 'cause with UC i noticed that i run out of virtual memory (physical 1gb, pagefile settings 700mb to 1.5gig, now trying with limit set to 1gb to 2gb), but better graphic card chipset and memory less work for cpu & ram.