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Bit of advice for CoD5 upgrade

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Hi guys,

I'm looking at upgrading my graphics card to run Call of Duty 5. I currently have a Radeon 9800 Pro (old I know!), and I see that the minimum video card requirement for CoD5 is:

Nvidia 6600GT/ATI Radeon 1600XT (256MB memory and Shader 3.0).

My other pc specs:
Motherboard: Intel i865PE
Processor: Northwood 3.0Ghz
1.5Gb DDR at 300mhz I think

So basically I'm wanting a bit of advice as to which card to get - I'm not fussed about running the game on high graphics, but want a smooth game with the next card I get. Graphics would be a bonus. Would getting one of the cards above be sufficient ^? - or would you recommend spending a little bit more money - even though my other pc specs aren't great.

Thanks a lot,

Ed
 
I'm using a 1440x900 widescreen and ingame usually 1024.

Budget is under £100 really - I don't really want to spend a lot of money on a graphics card that won't be working at its full potential. - I assume this will be the case seeing as my other specs aren't great.

I'm playing the Cod5 beta at the moment, comes out on the 14th nov :)
 
I'd try and source out an AGP x1950Pro second hand. I think that would be your best bet. There is the 3850 on OCUK but at £117 I think it's a bit dear when you can get a 4850 for the same price which easily beats the 3850. The only reason it's so dear is that it's an AGP card so go for the AGP X1950 Pro second hand.
 
Thanks J.D, am I right in saying my motherboard wouldn't support pci cards? - I notice both AGP and PCI on x1950pro's.
 
edY said:
Thanks J.D, am I right in saying my motherboard wouldn't support pci cards? - I notice both AGP and PCI on x1950pro's.
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You mean PCI-E.

I wouldn't spend to much in the GFX department mate. I would go for somthing like a 6800gt as that northy and 1.5gig of RAM are going to grind to a halt at anything more than 800x600! A x1950 would be sat twidling it thumbs.

It might be worth looking a bay prices for the parts you have now, you may be able to put a dual core celeron system together for the money they fetch.
 
jigger said:
You mean PCI-E.

that northy and 1.5gig of RAM are going to grind to a halt at anything more than 800x600! A x1950 would be sat twidling it thumbs.
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Since when was the playable screen resolution effected by the CPU and Ram, thats poor advice matey.
 
Could maybes do a bang-for-buck / cheap-ish full system upgrade to something like:-

Intel Core 2 Duo E7300 LGA775 'Wolfdale' 2.66GHz (1066FSB) - Retail - £91.64
Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3 Intel P45 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard - £88.11
OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C5 Dual Channel Vista Gold Series DDR2 - £37.59
Powercolor ATI Radeon HD 4850 PCS Extreme 512MB - £123.36
OCZ GameXStream 700w Silent SLI Ready ATX2 Power Supply - £88.11

£429.01 (inc.VAT)

Not bad for just over £400. :)
 
Firegod said:
Could maybes do a bang-for-buck / cheap-ish full system upgrade to something like:-

Intel Core 2 Duo E7300 LGA775 'Wolfdale' 2.66GHz (1066FSB) - Retail - £91.64
Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3 Intel P45 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard - £88.11
OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C5 Dual Channel Vista Gold Series DDR2 - £37.59
Powercolor ATI Radeon HD 4850 PCS Extreme 512MB - £123.36
OCZ GameXStream 700w Silent SLI Ready ATX2 Power Supply - £88.11

£429.01 (inc.VAT)

Not bad for just over £400. :)
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+1

Things to note cod 5 is built on the same engine as cod 4.
So if you can play cod 4 you can play cod 5.

Now luckly for you I have personal experance of cod 4 on a modern rig similar to that above & an p4 1.5g 6800gs rig.

The modern rig will eat it up & spit it out where as the old rig will leave it barely playable fps between 30/40 but will lock up every 4/5s for around 2/3secs.

I say take the pludge & build new as i wouldnt even bother spending the money on a new card as the card would be worth more than the systeam :eek:.

A new rig that will play cod 5 & most modern games well will set you back around £350
The changes I would make to the above spec would be to go for an e5200 & decent 450w or 520w psu thus saving around £50
 
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