will i get good performance out of an nvidia 7300 gs grfix card ie: doom3 or quake 4?
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tisbod's right, a 7600gt, the best in terms of price/performance can be found for $150. and it runs so much faster than the 7300.\n\nif you're going to go for something under $100, you might as well get a geforce 6800 xt, which can be found for $80 on newegg.com
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Yes it will but not at very high resolutions. \n\nBefore I start , here's a quick and easy way to find out if your computer can run any game:\n\nhttp://www.systemrequirementslab.com/referrer/srtest\n\n\nI have seen Sims 2 running on a system with a Nvidia Geforce 5200.  This was Nvidia's entry level product from a few years ago.   The X1300 Mobility while not being a powerful card is going to be more efficient when using newer technology \n\nHere is an old list of supported graphics cards:\n\nBelow is a list of cards supported by The Sims 2:\n\n    * ATI RadeonTM series (7000 or better)\n          o Radeon 7000/VE series (non-T&L; requires 2.0 GHz processor)\n          o 7200, 7500\n          o 8500, All-In-Wonder 8500\n          o 9000, 9200, 9500, 9600, 9700, 9800\n          o X300, X600, X800\n             \n    * Nvidia® QuadroTM series\n          o Quadro, Quadro2, Quadro4\n             \n    * Nvidia® Geforce series (GeForce2 and better)\n          o GeForce2\n          o GeForce3, 3 Ti\n          o GeForce4, 4Ti, MX 420, 440\n          o GeForce FX 5200, 5600, 5700, 5800, 5900, 5950\n          o GeForce 6600, 6800\n             \nIt also lists some intergrated graphics options!  So your X1300 should have no problems, especially if you keep the resolution to 800*600.
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About your best bet is the GeForce 6600 GT brilliant mid range card
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If you are running with screen resolution of 1024x768 and using 32 bits of resolution, each frame requires 25,165,824 bits of storage.  Given 8 bits/byte, that allows about 80 frames to be buffered.  That would seem to be enough video memory.  \n\nYou say that your frame rate doubles when going from thirty two bit to sixteen bit quantization.  Well, that's half the bits and a direct linear relationship between speed and number of bits! That tells me that the bottleneck is the processing speed of the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) itself.\n\nThe Geforce 6200 AGP has a passively cooled GPU.  From Overclocker Cafe, "Priced at $69, the Inno3D GeForce 6200A draws from two different audiences.  One of cost effectiveness and one out of want to get their HTPCs to operate as silently as humanly possible.  This is why we are able to recommend the GeForce 6200A to the AGP masses that constitute these two groups."\n\nMore system RAM certainly won't hurt and it is cheaper than a high end video card. But, I don't think it will do much to help your frame rate.  To do that, I think you'll need a higher-end video card.
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I'd recommend you attach a AGP card of arounfd 256MB, something like NVidia
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For the top settings on quake 4 i recommend replacing everything...\n\nOtherwise, increasing your ram by 512 would probably help the most, next by the graphics, next by the cpu and motherboard.\n\nI had games that were using 500-600 mb ram on their own.\n\nYou will never run the game on top settings without replacing everything though.\n\nYou could of course overclock your mb, cpu, memory & graphics card.  Careful of the temperatures though.  Go here for help, faqs & advice.\n\nhttp://www.overclock.net/
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g-force or ATI cards. Either of those will work well with your machine. \n\nCheck out www.tigerdirect.com for good prices and comparrisons.
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If you are looking for highest performance using multiboard, I would say Nvidia is better due to SLI. If you are looking to go with a single board, I would go with ATI Radeon. Overall, I think they are both closely matched video card. During the game, I do not think you would closely notice the difference of those two. As long as you are no using other video card from 3rd party, any one of those two should be okay.
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It's ok but it all depends on what kind of games you are playing.  Your graphics card would be ok with 250mb but what does it connect to... ei. PCI, AGP or PCI express.  Also what's the clockspeed on your processor, and how powerful is you RAM.  You should be good to play games, but i don't think you'll be ok for High-end games, unless you turn down all the graphics settings on the game.\n\nHere's the specs on my crappy ass desktop\nCeleron Processor at 2.8ghz\n512mb Geforce 6200 (PCI)\n1GB RAM PC3200, 400mhz\n80 GB HDD\n\nand it's good for some games but not for high end games.  I try to play City of Villains on it and i gotta turn down all the graphics settings and it still sucks, my laptop has more ass to it than this piece of crap\nMy Laptop Specs\nAMD Athalon 64-bit 3400+\n1 GB RAM\nATI Mobility Radeon 9800\n80 GB HDD\n\nand i can play City of Villains without having to sacrifice graphics or performance\n\nMy veredict homeboy, is to upgrade your graphics card maybe get a better PC for high end games.
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The new Nvidia GeForce 7950 GX2 is a great video card for games but cost around 700 bucks
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It looks like the motherboard has an AGP 4X slot.\nA further constraint is imposed by the psu which is 250W at best (in the mini tower configuration).\nThis rules out the nVidia 6600 & 6800 and (I'm guessing - the 7800).\nThe only AGP 4X cards this leaves at my usual source (scan.co.uk) which will drive two monitors have only a single DVI connector plus a D-Sub(analogue) and TV-out.\nThe nVidia 6200 has only a 64bit memory bit rate, so I would recommend an ATI offering - I am unaware of any power problems - but do your own research!  \nGiven the AGP/power limitations - don't expect to get a card than can play the very latest games, even with the eye-candy turned off, but I do know that the 9550 would play both HL2 and Doom3 at 800x600 on my son's AMD2500+. noAA.\nI couldn't find any reference to on-board graphics on the link below, but I did notice that desktop configuration will take only a half-length card (17.65cm)... I don't think that's an issue - it's 15 cm to the back of the AGP slot - faster cards may well be bigger...\nhttp://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=174195\nhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814153008
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Since it is an 8X AGP interface, you have many many models and prices to choose from. Nvidia just released a bunch of cards in AGP - which was in planned obselecence until they realized there was too many people with AGP boards.\nFor a little over $200 you could get something with the Nvidia 6800GS Series which is a good performance mid-priced card.\n\nhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814143045
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YIKES, anything other than onboard video!!! Use the Geforce 2 with the newest NVIDIA drivers and you will far surpass anything the SIS chipset could offer. Then upgrade as soon as possible.
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Nvidia of course... i got NVIDIA Geforce4 MX 440
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No such thing as too much, man. Your computer is perfect for that kind f gaming. The 7900 GT might not be as good as your current configuration.
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I've used both, and they both do the job they are suppose to do.  Nvidia can be annoying sometimes though, and ATI graphics cards are usually more solid in proformance.  So if I had to pick, I'd pick ATI.
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nVIDIA nFORCE i guess is best \n\nhttp://www.slizone.com/object/slizone_nforce.html