Ok after some help please chaps. Im totally out of the loop on hardware since my last upgrade which was about 4 years ago to an Athlon 3000.

My brother recently bought UFO Aftershock but his gfx card (some sh*tty Intel based thing in his Dell desktop) wont run it. Minimum apparently is an ATI Radeon 9600 which is what I havein my system. I am thinking I should buy myself a new card and let him have my old one.

What would you recommend I should go for - current system is :

NF7-S Board 8xAGP
Athlon XP3000
1.5 GB DDR 266
250GB HDD
Sapphire ATI Radeon 9600 128mb


I would like to run Supreme Commander - maybe even duel screen if possible.....

cheers

R

http://www.tekheads.co.uk/s/product?product=605495

How about this? Just an upgrade of my old model which was really good. Any thoughts/comments?

If you can spend a bit more and upgrade to a PCI-E board with the rest of it, which should be cheap, then this bargain.

http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/125183

Otherwise something in the Geforce 7 range, you can pick up good ones in the Ã,£60+ range, but beware the cheaper models will not be up to the job of games such as Supreme Commander.  A 7600GS struggled during the Beta.

the beta was roughly coded

i am running a 9800pro 256MB and struggled with the beta

on the new demo however it runs like a dream

Id go for the AGP x1950 pro if you can afford it.
you wont have to get a new cpu, ram, mobo AND gfx as i dont think one socket A board came out with PCI-E.


ive got a x850 xt pe (well ok a pro flashed to it ) coming from a radeon 9700 pro, that was a big leap for old games.

the beta did chug, the demo is certainly better running than that.
it can manage 1600x1200 @ 30ish fps early on, struggling around 18 fps late in the demo.
i do have a lot of stuff cluttering up my pc though :whoops:

rest of mines similar to yours
amd xp3200+,
1gb ram,
A7N8X nForce 2 board


X1650 wont be much of a change from the 9600,
take a look even though it doesnt list 9600s, it lists how the x1650 stacks up.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/graphics/charts.html?modelx=33&model1=588&model2=607&chart=196
although i dont often agree with their conclusions, its the only place ive seen with a through comparison chart.

 

My current X800XT PE ran the demo lovely but rest of my machine is higher specced

AMD x64 3200+
2Gb Ram
nforce 3 board

As MadMax said, I would spend the extra and go for the x1950

Cheers guys - Ill wait a month or so and go for the 1950. Hopefully upgrade the board and CPU in the next 6 months or so too.

7800 GS OC, runs the demo very well as long as I dont put all settings to max.

AMD 64 3700
2GB
Poopy Asus MB.

just put an artic cooling on my x850 tonight, another 20 mhz of overclock on the core  :mrgreen:

ive had two lads in the clan upgrade from various cards to the 1950, no disapointments so far.

last one was 6600gt to a pci-e 1950 pro