Game Help

[Lord Stevo]

I have bought Guild Wars which is an online game and need a better graphics card what do u suggest. The game recommends ATI Radeon 8500 or GeForce 3 or 4 Ti Series Video Card. It scanned my system and told me i need a better video card. Plz post some suggestions!!!

Cheers Lord Stevo

 

[BigLu]

How much are you wanting to spend?

 

[Satori1]

An Radeon 9600XT is a fairly decent budget card. It's only about $100 on Newegg.com, and it should be able to play the game fairly well.

 

[Lord Stevo]

well i have about £50 to £70 to spend on the video card

 

[Lord Stevo]

also most ppl in the game have a geforce video card

 

[jac006]

I found you some cards...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814153018
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814145058R
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814145112
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814135177

These are all in your price range (I hope) but since I think you live in the UK you might want to look around your stores for these cards. The place that I've listed doesn't ship to the anywhere outside the US, so good luck, but yeah, these cards will totally play guild wars.
No doubt about it.

 

[Lord Stevo]

cheers im goona go for the

CHAINTECH SA6600 Geforce 6600 256MB 128-bit DDR AGP 4X/8X Video Card - Retail

as the video ram is 256mb mine is only 64mb

cheers

 

[lurkswithin]

sorry to pop your bubble here but are you sure that your computer can handle that card. My experience says NO WAY. If your computer came with that low end of a graphics than I don't think it is powerful enough to run that card
Please post your specs as to what you have now in your computer so that it can be verified to what card you can or can't use.

 

[Lord Stevo]

My Computer Specs are:

Processor, Operating System and Memory
Operating System Installed
Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition

Processor
AMD Sempronâ„¢ processor 3000+

Chipset
VIA KM400a chipset

Standard memory
256MB

Memory type
DDR-SDRAM

Memory slots
2 DIMM sockets

Internal drives
Internal hard disk drive
80GB

Hard disk controller
Hard drive

Hard disk drive speed
(7200rpm)

Optical drive type
DVD drive

Optical drive speed
16x max.

Second optical drive type
DVD writer

Second optical drive speed
double layer ±R/ ±RW 16x max

Flexible disk drive
Floppy drive 3.5'' 1.44MB

System features
Network interface
10/100BT network interface

Video capture interface
IEEE 1394 FireWire® Interface

Video RAM
64MB shared video memory

Internal audio
Integrated 5.1 sound solution

Speakers and microphone
(Speakers provided with Monitors)

Keyboard
PS/2 keyboard and scroller mouse

External drive bays
2 external optical drive bays, 1 internal HDD bay

Video adapter, bus
1 AGP (free)

Expansion slots
3 PCI (2 PCI free)

External I/O ports
6 USB 2.0 ports (2 in front); 2 FireWire-IEEE-1394 ports (1 in front); 1 parallel port; 1 serial port

 

[Charchris]

I found some stuff here about your Motherboard

It has an External AGP 4X 8X port (external?)

Should be able to take the AGP version of the card make sure the card isn't PCIe