Looking for a little help and yes I’ve read many of the messages and reviews. My question is what video card do you all recommend based on the following criteria:
1. Cost <= $350
2. Reliability/Durability ( I won’t be over-clocking)
3. Fast frame rates in World of Warcraft at the highest resolution possible.
If you have a suggestion and play WOW would you post your frame rates best and worst? I’m assuming your worst would be in a 40 man raid during combat. I’m also hoping the card will have satisfactory performance with the Oblivion (Morrowind Upgrade) game but that has yet to be released.
My hardware is:
Intel D915PBL PCI-E
3.4g P4
2g ram
Asus EN5900 128meg video board
The above computer was a gift and I’m happy with everything except for the video card. I originally had an ATI 9500pro 128meg AGP card and that seemed to perform better than my current card at high resolutions. Also, I’m a little leery of NVIDIA because I’m seeing some artifacts with my current card. I tried changing the drivers without success. I probably have a bad card so I don’t want to eliminate NVIDIA.
Currently I’m considering the following two cards but at this point in the search I willing to switch choices:
eVGA 256-P2-N516 Geforce 7800GT 256MB
POWERCOLOR X800GTO16256MBDDR3 Radeon X800GTO 256MB
Thanks in advance for your help.
1. Cost <= $350
2. Reliability/Durability ( I won’t be over-clocking)
3. Fast frame rates in World of Warcraft at the highest resolution possible.
If you have a suggestion and play WOW would you post your frame rates best and worst? I’m assuming your worst would be in a 40 man raid during combat. I’m also hoping the card will have satisfactory performance with the Oblivion (Morrowind Upgrade) game but that has yet to be released.
My hardware is:
Intel D915PBL PCI-E
3.4g P4
2g ram
Asus EN5900 128meg video board
The above computer was a gift and I’m happy with everything except for the video card. I originally had an ATI 9500pro 128meg AGP card and that seemed to perform better than my current card at high resolutions. Also, I’m a little leery of NVIDIA because I’m seeing some artifacts with my current card. I tried changing the drivers without success. I probably have a bad card so I don’t want to eliminate NVIDIA.
Currently I’m considering the following two cards but at this point in the search I willing to switch choices:
eVGA 256-P2-N516 Geforce 7800GT 256MB
POWERCOLOR X800GTO16256MBDDR3 Radeon X800GTO 256MB
Thanks in advance for your help.