Help with graphics card

[lowridercrimson]

does anyone know of a good graphics card that can run halo 2 vista and is kind of cheap? I just bought halo 2 vista a couple weeks ago and i couldn't even play it because my graphics card is an Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950. I cant even sell it at EB Games because of some serial code thing lol. well thnx for the help

 

[Static_11]

uhh how cheap is cheap?

 

[lowridercrimson]

idk around 30 to 50 dollars

 

[Uberg]

I'm no expert but you should be able to get some cards at that price. My Geforce 7600gs can run Halo 2 fine on max settings. My friend has a 7300 and i couldn't tell much difference.

7600gs is going for about £40 at the moment ($80)
7300 is going for £30 ($60)

If you bought a cheaper card you might not be able to run it on the highest settings, but it should run fine.

 

[Nukem]

what kind of system do you have? bought or built? what kind of mobo does it have? AGP, PCI, or PCI-E? how big of a power supply does it have? if you can answer those, then we might be abl to help you out with more effectiveness in finding the right part for your needs.

 

[lowridercrimson]

i have windows vista. Its bought. dont know about the motherboard but the proccesor is an Intel Pentium 4 cpu 3.20 GHz. 512 ram. chip type is Intel 82945G express chipset family. 32 bit. DAC type Internal. System model is an T5088. Thats about all i could find out most of it is off dxdiag

 

[darksideleader]

Your computer has a PCI-Express slot so your gonna want one of thoes videocards.

I suggest you get a 7300GT or a 7600GS or 7600GT all from nvdia.
Normally i would suggest some ati cards as well but they tend to be more power hungry and your computer's power supply might not cut it. Make sure its PCI-Express.

also it wouldn't hurt to get a little bit more memory. You should get another 512mb of ram for better vista performance.

 

[lowridercrimson]

Your computer has a PCI-Express slot so your gonna want one of thoes videocards.

I suggest you get a 7300GT or a 7600GS or 7600GT all from nvdia.
Normally i would suggest some ati cards as well but they tend to be more power hungry and your computer's power supply might not cut it. Make sure its PCI-Express.

also it wouldn't hurt to get a little bit more memory. You should get another 512mb of ram for better vista performance.

ok thanks for the help. i was planning on buyin either 512 or 1gb more RAM too :happy:
also should i get a 64-bit graphics card or 128-bit or something

 

[darksideleader]

hmm there are videocards that are 128mb and 256mb, more memory helps with bigger resolutions. 512mb is too much for these cards to handle though so i suggest get 256mb, 512mb if its just little more expensive but if you got no choice then pick a 128mb card but it should work fine.