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"So I have a new PC on the way (Geforce FX 5500)"

Main specs being:

AMD Athlon™ 64 3500+ Processor
Mainboard , 2000MHz SB, IEEE 1394, SATA
1024MB DDR 400 RAM Memory
300GB Serial ATA (150Mb/s) Ultra Fast Hard Drive
256MB nVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 - TV-Out - DVI
17" TFT Flat Panel LCD Monitor
SONY 16x Dual Layer DVD-RW (R/W all standard formats)*
5.1 Surround Sound 6 Channel Audio
Creative Labs Soundblaster SBS260 Stereo Speakers

Only thing worrying me here is the Geforce FX 5500 card. I'm going to be playing alot of games on this thing, yet I just read a review this card isn't one of the best performers for games.

Was looking at a Radeon 9800 XT or something hmmmmmm.

So I have Doom 3 here, if I stick it in on that thing will it still look pretty or erm...run?

Main specs being:

AMD Athlon™ 64 3500+ Processor
Mainboard , 2000MHz SB, IEEE 1394, SATA
1024MB DDR 400 RAM Memory
300GB Serial ATA (150Mb/s) Ultra Fast Hard Drive
256MB nVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 - TV-Out - DVI
17" TFT Flat Panel LCD Monitor
SONY 16x Dual Layer DVD-RW (R/W all standard formats)*
5.1 Surround Sound 6 Channel Audio
Creative Labs Soundblaster SBS260 Stereo Speakers

Only thing worrying me here is the Geforce FX 5500 card. I'm going to be playing alot of games on this thing, yet I just read a review this card isn't one of the best performers for games.

Was looking at a Radeon 9800 XT or something hmmmmmm.

So I have Doom 3 here, if I stick it in on that thing will it still look pretty or erm...run?

It will run, probably 20fps at 1024*768.

:(

Bummer.

How about Rome Total War?

And whats the best card out these days for a acceptable amount of money. Some are like over £150 which could buy you a new games console. Silly.

Not sure about rome, people still recommend the 9800 pro which would set you back maybe £130.

I'd flog the FX5500 on ebay, someone will buy it.

The 9800 Pro is still a decent card, but if you're going to buy a new card, the sweet spot for performance/price is probably the GeForce 6800 LE. I'm fairly certain they outperform the 9800 Pro. Or consider the GeForce 6600 GT. Prices are better than the 9800 Pro and they are also slightly faster I believe.

Well at least I've given you names. You can find round-up reviews of them all yourself.

Can i ask how much you are paying for your computer?

chippxero wrote:
> Can i ask how much you are paying for your computer?

£899

How comes you went with a athlon 64 bit? Just wondering as you could have higher cpu speed with a intel probably a 3.4ghz or something like that.

But i haven't got a clue about the 64 bit function of the amd chip so if this is a stupid question mock me till i cry.

Go with the numbers on the AMD chips. 3500+ > P4 3.4 GHz.

I'll have to look into all this in the next few days. I've been looking over the weekend at performance results of all the graphics cards and the ones near the top are way out of my price range.

Just searched shortly for the Geforce cards you meantioned and they seem to be a little bit more expensive then the Radeon Pro 9800's. I have seen the Geforce 6800's come quite high in some results though.

I swear when I looked at graphics cards last time around it wasn't as confusing as this. Before it was just AGP and PCI. AGP was more capable then a PCI graphics card. And the higher mb it had say 64mb, was better. Now I'm seeing some 128mb cards being more expensive then 256mb and such things as PCI Express which I know nothing about apart from you can dual cards up with it.

So AGP, PCI and PCI Express. Some of these PCI's are better then the AGP's eh?

I dunno.

May just look into prices for that Radeon Pro 9800 256mb AGP thing.

The Geforce if it's pants can go in my sisters PC or something.