Cheap card for WOW

[fizzy]

Hi,

I need to upgrade a gfx card on a machine that currently has a geforce 6600 256mb card installed. Not really used that much for games, mainly videos/office stuff, but the one game that is used on it is World Of Warcraft.

Using a monitor with a res of 1920x1200 (ws), and the gfx is struggling a bit with wow - had to reduce the settings right down at that res (prefer to keep the res native rather than lower res with fancy effects).

Was considering getting an ati 2600XT, mainly for the HD video acceleration aspects - but would this be able to run WOW at 1920x1200 with all the detail options on max etc?

Thanks.

 

[fizzy]

Ok - so perhaps I should rephrase this - how close in performance is the 2600XT to the 1950pro?

 

[fizzy]

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTM2MCw1LCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==

just remember theses was done on old drivers (7.7 drivers)

Thanks - thats great! Looks like the 2600xt should handle things fine going by that, and can always turn AF off to help a bit too.

 

[fizzy]

Hmm... decisions. Do I go for the 2600pro with 512mb, the 2600XT with 256mb (ddr3) or the 2600xt with 256mb (ddr4)? Doesn't seem to be any option for a 2600XT with 512mb though?

 

[fizzy]

it doesn't make much different with just 1 card because it only about 3-5 fps extra but with 2 cards i get around 10-15 fps extra... also it depends on the space in his case because the ddr4 version card are very long.

Thanks for the help guys - I've ordered a 2600XT DDR3 version, as the system its going in only has one pcie connection so no chance of crossfire etc, and as stated its only a couple fps difference.

Also bought a bit more memory which should also helps things generally too.

Was tempted to bye a blue ray drive while I was at it, but managed to resist.... maybe later...