Help For A Out-Of-Touch Gamer
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)?
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Mike
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danielcole
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Mike
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Joe
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Joe