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Hey,
I am going to be building myself a new machine in the near future and I needed a bit of help on choosing a graphics card.

Would a Leadtek WinFast GeForce 6800 be able to run BF2 on high settings whilst keeping a stable frame-rate?
Or would I be better off going for an ATI card such as:
Connect3D ATI Radeon X800

Both cards are PCI-Express.

What does this mean:
ATX v2.0 compliant PSU Required for PCI-E Graphics/Motherboard

Thanks,
James

Hey,
I am going to be building myself a new machine in the near future and I needed a bit of help on choosing a graphics card.

Would a Leadtek WinFast GeForce 6800 be able to run BF2 on high settings whilst keeping a stable frame-rate?
Or would I be better off going for an ATI card such as:
Connect3D ATI Radeon X800

Both cards are PCI-Express.

What does this mean:
ATX v2.0 compliant PSU Required for PCI-E Graphics/Motherboard

Thanks,
James

I have the Winfast Leadtek AGP 6800 with a 2gig processor, and the settings are mostly on high, with Lighting on medium and AA off, but i've never tried it with AA on so I cant comment. Mines the 128version, running at 1024x768, but I know that the 256 version will run it on high everything at max resolution...

It will depend what the rest of your ne system is going to be, but i have a 2.4ghz with a 6800gt and i get 50-70fps on max settings (with 1024x768 AAx4) in BF2 so a better CPU than that will probably earn even more.

I think a regular 6800 will perform pretty close to the GT as there isn't much in them, how much you looking to spend on it?

Sorry can't comment on ATI cards as they give you cancer or steal your soul so i haven't tried it.

I'm thinking of getting the AMD Venice 3000+ 939 Pin processor, my budget will be around £400 - £600 for the whole system. That's without a screen, keyboard or mouse.

You can go a lot better than that with that budget, if you pick a case and PSU, i'll come up with a whole computer for the rest of your budget if you
want.

You should look at AMD 64bit 3800+ rather than a 3000+

what size hard drive you going for?

Any size Hard-Drive, I would settle for an 80GB one.

Case:
[URL]http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Antec_Cases.html[/URL]
"Antec SLK3000B Midi Tower Case - No PSU (CA-027-AN)"

PSU:
[URL]http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Akasa_PSU.html[/URL]
"Akasa Ultra Quiet 400W Paxpower Active PFC ATX2.0 PSU - Black Nickel (CA-012-AK)"

Do your worst...

Chippxero wrote:
> You should look at AMD 64bit 3800+ rather than a 3000+

Ditch the 3800+ and go for the 3700+, Better core, cooler temps on load (about 32deg) and a 1Mb L2 instead of the 512 the 3800 has.

Chippxero wrote:
> I think a regular 6800 will perform pretty close to the GT as there
> isn't much in them, how much you looking to spend on it?

The GT is a lot faster - it's higher clocked and has more pipes, plus more and way faster RAM. As for a 256mb 6800 playing it on 'max resolution', I'm guessing 2048x1536 will be more than a little strained on anything less than a 7800GTX or X1800XT.... : )

Strange how I've always seen the 6800 perform better in benchmarks against the 6600GT. Mines unlocked now anyway so i dont really care...