Struggling to decide on video card for new conroe system

[rayb74]

Sorry, with the some of the posts here I could not resist:

Lol !
easyrider ? stop making judgments about peoples humour who I would say in the majority differs vastly from yours.

 

[Participant]

Apologies if I seemed rude, it wasn't my intention. Like most people spotted I was only having a joke about not wanting to spend too much on this rig.

I was hoping for people to be able to tell me how much I would have to spend if you can see my point easyrider. Sometimes I believe the budget is defined by the requirements not vice versa, and for me this is one of those times.

It looks like the X1800XT is the one to look out for since it will run these games with few problems, especially if I can overclock it which I plan to do.

Seems like I need to look no further, thanks for all your help.

System as follows for those interested:

2 x HD-078-SE Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB ST3320620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-078-SE) [RAID 0 with 2 WD IDE drives as storage] £125.90

CP-135-IN Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - OEM (CP-135-IN) £107.99

MB-061-GI Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-061-GI) £91.99

MY-058-GL GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC) (MY-058-GL) £169.99

HS-017-AR Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 775) (HS-017-AR) £11.99

GX-044-CO Connect3D ATI Radeon X1800 XT 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-044-CO)
£114.99

Total incl VAT £731.85

 

[easyrider]

was hoping for people to be able to tell me how much I would have to spend if you can see my point easyrider. Sometimes I believe the budget is defined by the requirements not vice versa, and for me this is one of those times.

You wanna play COD 2 at max settings at 1440x900....?

The x1800 256 will not do that. Like I have said.


Spend the extra and get a x1900 xt.