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modock22 · 11-02-2007, 05:58 AM

well a friend of mine (whom i work for off and on) decided that for all the free work i have done for him...
he is going to pay for the harddrive (wd instead of seagate but 250gig instead of 120) sooooooo my budget for the vid card just went up a little bit
so i'm going to try to keep it to about 80 bucks
so i was looking at an 8500gt and a 7600gs and the hd2600pro all are close to the same price and all have 512mb........
so again i ask what do you think

well i did a bunch more research and found that from 60 to 80 bucks the best card in that price range is the 1650 (suprizingly followed closely by the 1550) and the 6600 fell well below both of them...... and i do mean well below them. i even checked to see if i could play the games i wanted to on that card like bioshock and such and everyone on the other forums seems to say yea it should play it at a low to medium range btw i can make bioshock play on my 6600 but it tends to freeze and crash. so i went ahead and ordered my x1650 from saphire and it should be here in just a few days and by this week end i should have my hdd from my boss as well. also a couple for really old laptops which i'm giving to my niece and son the niece for homework and my son so he will stop annoying mommy everytime she gets on her laptop! lol

so my new system specs are as follows tell me what you think (please remember i'm going for budget gaming here)
amd athlon 64 x2 4200+
2gig ddr2 800 dual channel
250gig sata2 western digital hdd 16mb cache
SAPPHIRE 194L Radeon X1650 256MB 128-bit GDDR2 PCI Express x16
all on my cheap as dog crap pcchips mobo!
lol yea i'll upgrade the mobo later so get off my back lol!

11-02-2007, 05:58 AM	#9 (permalink)
modock22 Moderator Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Charleston, WV USA! Posts: 721 Hellbux: 934	well a friend of mine (whom i work for off and on) decided that for all the free work i have done for him... he is going to pay for the harddrive (wd instead of seagate but 250gig instead of 120) sooooooo my budget for the vid card just went up a little bit so i'm going to try to keep it to about 80 bucks so i was looking at an 8500gt and a 7600gs and the hd2600pro all are close to the same price and all have 512mb........ so again i ask what do you think well i did a bunch more research and found that from 60 to 80 bucks the best card in that price range is the 1650 (suprizingly followed closely by the 1550) and the 6600 fell well below both of them...... and i do mean well below them. i even checked to see if i could play the games i wanted to on that card like bioshock and such and everyone on the other forums seems to say yea it should play it at a low to medium range btw i can make bioshock play on my 6600 but it tends to freeze and crash. so i went ahead and ordered my x1650 from saphire and it should be here in just a few days and by this week end i should have my hdd from my boss as well. also a couple for really old laptops which i'm giving to my niece and son the niece for homework and my son so he will stop annoying mommy everytime she gets on her laptop! lol so my new system specs are as follows tell me what you think (please remember i'm going for budget gaming here) amd athlon 64 x2 4200+ 2gig ddr2 800 dual channel 250gig sata2 western digital hdd 16mb cache SAPPHIRE 194L Radeon X1650 256MB 128-bit GDDR2 PCI Express x16 all on my cheap as dog crap pcchips mobo! lol yea i'll upgrade the mobo later so get off my back lol! __________________ \"the great Modock speaks.................Listen!\" - Itachi \"I sound like some kind of fanboy here,\" - Carnage \"I had no idea what the hell to do\" -nxs \"I already know god loves me more then you because he gave me good eyes\" -Gazz the monkey will pay for the new title he has bestowed on me!