Civ 4 ?

[dbates]

What would be a good GPU for playing Civ 4 ? It needs to be an AGP card, and as affordable as possible but still play at about 1024 or 1280. I'm looking at an X800XL perhaps ?

 

[Dav0s]

yup, that would be good.....or the nvidia equivelant......6600gt

 

[dbates]

Civ 4 is ideally DX9 isn't it ? I presume that the XL would allow use of all the bells and whistles ?

 

[MikeEnIke]

Well my 6600GT allows all the bells and whistles so I'm sure an x800XL would too.

 

[dbates]

Great news - thanks ! My friend currently has a 9500Pro or similar, and he's finding it very hard going !

 

[FragTek]

Great news - thanks ! My friend currently has a 9500Pro or similar, and he's finding it very hard going !

That's quite an outdated card... He could probably find a 9800 to replace it with for very cheap which would be heaps better than the 9500. You can find 9800XT's for about $150 these days.

 

[dbates]

Do you think a 9800XT would be enough though ? They are typically hitting around £80 on Ebay at the moment.

 

[FragTek]

Do you think a 9800XT would be enough though ?

More than likely.

 

[Dav0s]

9800pro would be enough, they can be had for £50 on forum sales, HEXUS is always a good one to try.

 

[dbates]

I'm not sure he would really want to go second hand though, and he gets his stuff VAT-free. Do you think an X700 would cut it ? Or perhaps the X800GTO instead ?

 

[FarFarAway]

get the x800GTO2 mate - great card and you can flash the BIOS to an x850xt

 

[FragTek]

Wirelessly posted (Nextel BB7520: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) BlackBerry7520/4.0.2 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1)

get the x800GTO2 mate - great card and you can flash the BIOS to an x850xt

Those x800's are a bit more though aren't they? Or are they comparably priced with the 9800's?

 

[dbates]

kempez815, does that have to be a particular brand or model of card to flash the bios ? Sounds a bit too good to be true, but that doesn't mean it is

 

[dbates]

Okay, a bit of research has put me in the know now - Google is my friend

Biggest problem now seem to be that GTO2's are a bit like the pooh of the proverbial rocking horse... Anyone got any ideas where one could be bought ?

 

[Tec]

Sapphire Radeon X800 GTO2 £139.99

http://www.microdirect.co.uk/ProductInfo.aspx?ProductID=10717&GroupID=1227

Same card i have , unlocked to 16 pipelines , 3D Mark 2005 score 6714.

 

[dbates]

You got me very excited then, but that's the PCI-E version and I was referring to an AGP card

 

[Tec]

You got me very excited then, but that's the PCI-E version and I was referring to an AGP card

Soz m8 didnt read properly