I have an Athlon 64 3200 processor, Radeon 9600 128mb video card, and 512 ram. I was wondering if it's worth upgrading my video card to a Gforce 7600gs 256mb card or would I need the ram to back it up?
I'm mostly using it for gaming and I was wondering if it would let me up the graphics on BF2, right now I have to run at pretty much the lowest settings and I would like to be able to up the resolution from 800x600.
Would the video card do this for me or do I need the ram to back it up, I'm asking because I'm getting a pretty good price on this card.
2006-10-14 18:04:56 · 5 answers · asked by Matt 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
Well the last user is right, but for the wrong reasons. The video card is more important, not because there is more memory on the card but because the card has a faster clock, faster memory, and more pixel pipes. Now ideally you really should also get an extra 512 of system RAM, which will only run you about $50, but the card is the more important of the two.
2006-10-14 19:01:46 · answer #1 · answered by mysticman44 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A 7600GS is about 4 times as fast as your 9600, even if you've got the 9600XT. You won't be able to run above 800x600 with 512MB of RAM, though. Were you aware that Windows uses between 256 & 400 MB of RAM, with no programs running?
The minimum system RAM you'd want for BF2 is 1GB, although 2GB will keep your game from "pausing" all the time, to load data from the hard drive. And newer games (like FEAR, for instance) just about have to have 2GB, even at somewhat lower resolutions.
2006-10-15 03:33:37 · answer #2 · answered by alchemist_n_tx 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If all you are trying to do is get a better screen resolution all you need is a card with more ram. Your computer ram don't matter but for speed. So Yes being you will be upgrading from 128M Video ram to 256M video ram it will do just what you want.
2006-10-14 18:15:11 · answer #3 · answered by Don K 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree. If ur into gaming then I would invest in a new video graphics card. I personally have 1 gig dual vid cards so theres no game I cant run on the highest settings:]
2006-10-14 19:34:44 · answer #4 · answered by justinbowen2003 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
get at least 1Gb of ram. your video card is fine
2006-10-14 20:18:00 · answer #5 · answered by Ask, and it shall be answered~ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋