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12-06-2006, 04:54 AM
|  | A l b a h o l i c | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia
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| | | What GPU for AOE:III?
hey guys, age of empires 3 can run on my comp, but sometimes it lags etc, and i wanna buy a new GPU for my PC. right now i am using the onboard GPU. ok my specs are, 2.66 Pentium D Dual Core, 1gb ram. i am looking for a GPU. all i do on the pc is play CS and now AOE III and its expansion pack, i am looking for a low budget graphics card that can paly AOE comfortably! can ppl plz gimme sum model names, i wanna spend as low as possisble, but it has to run comforatbly! thanks guys!
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12-06-2006, 10:43 AM
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 : 89 th | | | anything with 64 MB of video ram or higher.. i would recommend at least a 128 MB card if not a 256.
Maybe an X1800 or nvidia equivalent 7800 GTX if you can find one |
12-06-2006, 02:31 PM
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12-06-2006, 03:41 PM
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12-06-2006, 04:11 PM
| | The Real Joe | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: San Diego
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| | | Hes asking about GPU's that is a GPU thread with lots of answers. |
12-06-2006, 04:38 PM
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| | | yea, well i need an answer in say 4-5 hours,, cos ijsut go homr from work(work from 2am-7am) and i will go out aorund midday(austrlaian time) and buy the grpahics card. so yea, i need to find a GPU in 5 hours ???
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Dell 630M : 14.1" XGA Widescreen
Pentium M 760, 2.0 Ghz, 533Mhz
2 x 1GB RAM 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM
60GB 7200rpm HDD
9-cell Battery : 6-cell Battery
Intel PRO/Wireless 2200 802.11b/g
Philips CDRW/DVD
Desktop
P4 - 2.0 GHZ
512 RAM 333MHz : 40gb HDD @ 5400rpm
Ge-Force 4 MX 440 64mb RAM
LG CD Burner [16x10x40x]
Pioneer DVD Burner [forgot, but its +- DL]
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12-06-2006, 07:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: USA
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| | My forum times are all messed up and I'm too lazy to fix it so I don't know if this will be a timely response, but... I use an eVGA 6800GT and it plays quite well, even on high settings at 1680x1050. It gets around 25-30fps but on an RTS like that it looks just fine (in an FPS that would be unnacceptable to me). Oddly enough, I played a crapload of AOE III skirmishes over the weekend, and hadn't played in like 9 months  . |
12-06-2006, 10:56 PM
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| | | also, can any graphics card fit in any motherboard? i have the dual core pentium and thus dual core motherboard just to inform u all, need a reply ina bout 2 hours max!
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Dell 630M : 14.1" XGA Widescreen
Pentium M 760, 2.0 Ghz, 533Mhz
2 x 1GB RAM 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM
60GB 7200rpm HDD
9-cell Battery : 6-cell Battery
Intel PRO/Wireless 2200 802.11b/g
Philips CDRW/DVD
Desktop
P4 - 2.0 GHZ
512 RAM 333MHz : 40gb HDD @ 5400rpm
Ge-Force 4 MX 440 64mb RAM
LG CD Burner [16x10x40x]
Pioneer DVD Burner [forgot, but its +- DL]
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12-06-2006, 11:05 PM
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Originally Posted by plAythiNG
also, can any graphics card fit in any motherboard? i have the dual core pentium and thus dual core motherboard just to inform u all, need a reply ina bout 2 hours max!
| all new motherboards support pci-e... they don't make AGP graphic cards anymore. (well at least from a gaming perspective) |
12-06-2006, 11:50 PM
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| | | so i can buy ANY GPU AND PUT IT IN MY MOTHERBOARD CORRECT
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Dell 630M : 14.1" XGA Widescreen
Pentium M 760, 2.0 Ghz, 533Mhz
2 x 1GB RAM 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM
60GB 7200rpm HDD
9-cell Battery : 6-cell Battery
Intel PRO/Wireless 2200 802.11b/g
Philips CDRW/DVD
Desktop
P4 - 2.0 GHZ
512 RAM 333MHz : 40gb HDD @ 5400rpm
Ge-Force 4 MX 440 64mb RAM
LG CD Burner [16x10x40x]
Pioneer DVD Burner [forgot, but its +- DL]
Viewed on a Dell 17" Flat Panel |  | |
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