Graphics card question..

A friend has some really old ATi card, but other than that an OK computer. He only has an AGP slot, so an ATi X1650 pro is the best graphics card he could get in his budget. He has BF2142 but at the moment can only run it on low. what would this card run it on?

btw his pc:

P4 3.2ghz

1GB DDR

some old, bad ATI video card.

A friend has some really old ATi card, but other than that an OK computer. He only has an AGP slot, so an ATi X1650 pro is the best graphics card he could get in his budget. He has BF2142 but at the moment can only run it on low. what would this card run it on?

btw his pc:

P4 3.2ghz

1GB DDR

some old, bad ATI video card.

noswear

he really had no choice.....i was in his shoe once before...i was force to change my whole rig..

anyways nowadays diy coms are cheap

Where is the friend pricing the particular X1650 Pro AGP he is looking at? I say that because storefront pricing is 40 to 60 % higher than typical online eTailer pricing. The X1650 was a mid-Medium card a year ago, and is available online for around $80 and less. ATI has made several better cards available for AGP, and the X1950 Pro is still in production, AFAIK.

Incidentally, caution the friend to ignore VRAM amounts larger than 256 MBs if he doesn't raise his sights above Medium VGA quality.

Battlefield 2142 Minimum System Requirements

* 1.7 Ghz CPU
* 512 MB RAM
* 128 MB video card supporting 1.4 shaders (ATI Radeon 8500 / NVIDIA FX 5700 or above)
* Windows XP Operating System (does not work on Windows 2000/Me)

Battlefield 2142 Recommended System Requirements

* 2.66 Ghz CPU
* 1024 MB RAM
* 256 MB video card supporting 1.4 shaders (ATI Radeon X700 / NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT
or above) * Windows XP Operating System (does not work on Windows 2000/Me)

That recommended level would normally mean everything at Medium for the cards named, so if he stuck with his choice, then he could look toward a mix of mostly medium settings, plus some higher settings as well. Medium cards have only a 128 Bit memory system, which limits their access to VRAM in games to that 256 MB maximum named.

Where is the friend pricing the particular X1650 Pro AGP he is looking at? I say that because storefront pricing is 40 to 60 % higher than typical online eTailer pricing. The X1650 was a mid-Medium card a year ago, and is available online for around $80 and less. ATI has made several better cards available for AGP, and the X1950 Pro is still in production, AFAIK.

Incidentally, caution the friend to ignore VRAM amounts larger than 256 MBs if he doesn't raise his sights above Medium VGA quality.

Battlefield 2142 Minimum System Requirements

* 1.7 Ghz CPU
* 512 MB RAM
* 128 MB video card supporting 1.4 shaders (ATI Radeon 8500 / NVIDIA FX 5700 or above)
* Windows XP Operating System (does not work on Windows 2000/Me)

Battlefield 2142 Recommended System Requirements

* 2.66 Ghz CPU
* 1024 MB RAM
* 256 MB video card supporting 1.4 shaders (ATI Radeon X700 / NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT
or above) * Windows XP Operating System (does not work on Windows 2000/Me)

That recommended level would normally mean everything at Medium for the cards named, so if he stuck with his choice, then he could look toward a mix of mostly medium settings, plus some higher settings as well. Medium cards have only a 128 Bit memory system, which limits their access to VRAM in games to that 256 MB maximum named.

Kiwi_1

He's buying it from MSY, it's close and cheap. would a 7600gs be better or worse?

in case it matters, the x6150 is an HIS x6150 512MB IceQ2, and the 7600gs is an inno3d. the x1650 is $20 more so it's probably better, but i could be wrong.

also, http://www.msy.com.au/Parts/PARTS.pdf (shop's price list)

do you think he'd be better off buying a cheap mobo and a new pcie card?

A friend has some really old ATi card, but other than that an OK computer. He only has an AGP slot, so an ATi X1650 pro is the best graphics card he could get in his budget. He has BF2142 but at the moment can only run it on low. what would this card run it on?

btw his pc:

P4 3.2ghz

1GB DDR

some old, bad ATI video card.

noswear

It should be able to play high setting. That's an old game and my 9800XT could do high so that should.

A better AGP is the X1950pro which I also have got in an old system Pentium4 and it handles nicely at 1600x1200 4xAA max settings.