Hello, folks.
Sorry to register and be picking your brains within a matter of minutes, but if you can spare the time, i'd appreciate some advice on buying a new graphics card.
My current computer is a P4 2.6Ghz with 512 of DDR-SDRAM, a Radeon 9600TX, a decent HDD and lots of ports I care not to know anything about.
I'm looking forward to Battlefield 2 for the PC, and would like to get a graphics card that would really make the game shine. I play XBOX mostly, and i've played HL2, Doom 3 and Far Cry at a friends house, so to have THE best card isn't a priority. I'd just like something that'll last me a couple of years.
My friend has just bought a GeForce 6600GT that ran HL2 everything on HIGH with 4 x AA and it was beautiful. I want to be able to run Battlefield 2 in the same way. I plan to get an extra 512MB of RAM to compliment the card - and improve my PC speed overall.
I have a QTEC power block (PSU)(450w) that should be able to support a decent card.
I hear EA games are better played with nVidia cards and from the look of my friends HL2, I wouldn't mind playing it looking like that!
So, i've pencilled a GeForce 6600 GT in my mind and was thinkning about getting it around May time..
Does anyone have any suggestions or advice on the card, or if anything else Sub £150 would do a better job.
Much Appreciated.
Jez
Sorry to register and be picking your brains within a matter of minutes, but if you can spare the time, i'd appreciate some advice on buying a new graphics card.
My current computer is a P4 2.6Ghz with 512 of DDR-SDRAM, a Radeon 9600TX, a decent HDD and lots of ports I care not to know anything about.
I'm looking forward to Battlefield 2 for the PC, and would like to get a graphics card that would really make the game shine. I play XBOX mostly, and i've played HL2, Doom 3 and Far Cry at a friends house, so to have THE best card isn't a priority. I'd just like something that'll last me a couple of years.
My friend has just bought a GeForce 6600GT that ran HL2 everything on HIGH with 4 x AA and it was beautiful. I want to be able to run Battlefield 2 in the same way. I plan to get an extra 512MB of RAM to compliment the card - and improve my PC speed overall.
I have a QTEC power block (PSU)(450w) that should be able to support a decent card.
I hear EA games are better played with nVidia cards and from the look of my friends HL2, I wouldn't mind playing it looking like that!
So, i've pencilled a GeForce 6600 GT in my mind and was thinkning about getting it around May time..
Does anyone have any suggestions or advice on the card, or if anything else Sub £150 would do a better job.
Much Appreciated.
Jez