Cody Millhouse
Junior Member
Join date: 15 Jul 2004
Posts: 1
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07-15-2004 16:15
I want to spend around 50 bucks for AGP. What should I get?
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Catherine Omega
Geometry Ninja
Join date: 10 Jan 2003
Posts: 2,053
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07-15-2004 16:37
The best one you're likely to be able to find under $50 US is a GeForce 4 MX. You don't want that. Even spending a few more dollars to get a GeForce FX 5200 would be a better bet.
If you can go up to around $100 US, you can get a GeForce FX 5600, which is an entirely different card -- it's actually a GOOD one. If you can afford it, do that.
I can't recommend an ATI-based card for use with SL. They just don't work as well.
Depending on what video card, CPU and RAM you already have, a video upgrade may not be the easiest way to get a performance increase. What are you currently running?
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Bella Proudfoot
Registered User
Join date: 3 Jul 2004
Posts: 8
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awwww
07-16-2004 07:23
Cody Im sorry you got banned. I hope you can get back to us somehow. You are lots of fun  Your new(like me) and you should have gotten another chance. So not fair 
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Aaron Levy
Medicated Lately?
Join date: 3 Jun 2004
Posts: 2,147
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Re: awwww
07-16-2004 08:29
From: someone Originally posted by Bella Proudfoot Cody Im sorry you got banned. I hope you can get back to us somehow. You are lots of fun  Your new(like me) and you should have gotten another chance. So not fair huh?
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HUGSaLOT Valkyrie
Registered Fartiologist
Join date: 13 Jan 2004
Posts: 79
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Re: Re: awwww
07-17-2004 15:34
I don't have any really big problems with ATI cards, they work well and just fine. any $50 ATI card will run SL just fine. I'd recomend getting at least a Radeon 9200 of any type. Minimum is a 8500 for SL, but any of the 9000 series will do fine and support other games as well.
I also have an older Radeon 7200 card working with SL, with most all the setting set low.. works ok. not all that great, and the SL client complains every time I fire it up.
For the nVidia side, anything above GeForce 3 will be ok. Avoid any GeForce 4 MX cards however because they are lower end than a GeForce 3.
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