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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 :)
 
Thanks J.D, am I right in saying my motherboard wouldn't support pci cards? - I notice both AGP and PCI on x1950pro's.
 
Thanks very much for advice - yea I think I will get a full upgrade.

Jigger, thanks for working out how awful my setup was!
 
Ok thanks for the advice everyone, I've decided I'm going to spend around £500 on a new system, and here is what I'm thinking at the moment:

Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS5 Intel P45 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £134.99 (£158.61)
Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 "LGA775 Conroe" 3.00GHz (1333FSB) - Retail (£152.74)
OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C5 Dual Channel Vista Gold Series DDR2 (OCZ2G8004GK) (£37.59 inc VAT)
Powercolor ATI Radeon HD 4850 PCS Extreme 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail (£123.36)
OCZ GameXStream 700w Silent SLI Ready ATX2 Power Supply £74.99 (£88.11)

Total (£558)

Any suggestions/changes would be great.

Ed
 
Ok great, I'll look into the Wolfdale processor.

I see only three 1366 mobos on OC, so surely the 775's aren't dead just yet!?

Which other PSU or 775 mobo would you suggest?

I also plan on using Adobe's Creative Suite a lot with this new system.
 
Is the E8500 a better choice than the Q6600? - same price - I think I saw another thread saying they would be similar performance, but should I be looking at quad core chips instead of duel core? - and if I were to buy a quad core, would I need a better mobo than above?

Thanks Jak, I'll look into a cooler.

Ed
 
No problem, interesting to hear what you guys have to say :)

That mobo is really cheap - shouldn't I be spending the most on this component?
 
Ok, I'm considering going for the Q6600 quad instead of the E8500, as I gather this will be better for running Adobe programs.

Also been advised to go for an Nvidia graphics card for the same specs - such as the GeForce 9800 GT 1GB or 9800GTX+ 512MB GDDR3. Would this be better?

Still not really sure about the motherboard - would the Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS5 Intel P45 or other Asus stated somewhere be neccessary for the other components?

Cheers for all the help.
 
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