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Help For A Out-Of-Touch Gamer

Posted on December 27, 2004 by Mike

Here is my quandry: I was a complete addict of the origional Half Life…Freshman year of college I seem to be always playing that game. However in recent years, I have vered away from PC gaming to become a big X-Box fan (World Series Baseball 2k3 is the best, in the play-offs for season #8 now). But now Half-Life 2 has come out and I want to play it…bad. The problem is that I’m still running a Half-Life 1 era graphics card.

Needless to say, I’ve become a bit out of touch with PC gaming and I have a vague idea on what I should get to run Half Life 2 in particular and just have a good card around for a few other games as well. I know what the box or the websites say…”Required 128 mb memory, blah blah blah…” but that rarely translates in to something that can make the game playable. So I decided to ask you. What graphics card should I get?

Before I start getting posts about how great the 6800 is, there are a few conditions.
1. I don’t have a lot of money to throw at this, especially becuase I still won’t be gaming all that much on my PC…so it would be worthless to pop in an x800 or 6800. I’m looking to stick close to $100.
2. I would prefer not to have to get a slower card and overclock the hell out of it to get any preformance. Some of that is fine, but I really don’t want to get into an extreme amount of that.
3. Umm, I can’t think of a third one, so I guess there is really just 2 for now.

Can anyone out there offer some suggestions or less obvious places to find a good deal (other than the usual: Pricewatch, NewEgg or Tiger Direct)?

  • http://www.whiskeyburn.com Joe

    Hey mike, that nice xbox that you own can do the same things as a dvr too, without media extender. you can get some nice dvr software (theres a whole linux distro for it) and it will link right up with xbox media center. I would highly recommend upgrading media center if you haven’t recently too. gimme a call if you need help.

    Oh, and come over sometime and try halo2 on xbl… it kicks all ass

  • http://www.whiskeyburn.com Joe

    ahh shit that was supposed to be posted in the xbox post… well free posts for you… hack in a damn edit button won’t you?

  • http://www.whiskeyburn.com Joe

    Hey mike, that nice xbox that you own can do the same things as a dvr too, without media extender. you can get some nice dvr software (theres a whole linux distro for it) and it will link right up with xbox media center. I would highly recommend upgrading media center if you haven’t recently too. gimme a call if you need help.

    Oh, and come over sometime and try halo2 on xbl… it kicks all ass

  • http://www.whiskeyburn.com Joe

    ahh shit that was supposed to be posted in the xbox post… well free posts for you… hack in a damn edit button won’t you?

  • http://hellyeahbitch.com Mike

    If I made an edit post feature then I and the other readers of this site wouldn’t be able to laugh at people like you that have problems working the posting interface.
    …That, and I kind of like the “writing in stone” mentality you have to have when posting here.

  • http://hellyeahbitch.com Mike

    If I made an edit post feature then I and the other readers of this site wouldn’t be able to laugh at people like you that have problems working the posting interface.
    …That, and I kind of like the “writing in stone” mentality you have to have when posting here.

  • danielcole

    I believe that x-box hacks are ok for as long as you don’t login to X-BoxLive

  • danielcole

    I believe that x-box hacks are ok for as long as you don’t login to X-BoxLive

  • http://hellyeahbitch.com Mike

    Yeah, if I ever go near X-Box live Microsoft will ban me forever, Bill Gates will send guys to my house to break my fingers, and possibly might come to my house personally take a shit on my coffee table.

    But as long as I don’t do that…everything is gravy.

  • http://hellyeahbitch.com Mike

    Yeah, if I ever go near X-Box live Microsoft will ban me forever, Bill Gates will send guys to my house to break my fingers, and possibly might come to my house personally take a shit on my coffee table.

    But as long as I don’t do that…everything is gravy.

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