What would be the best video card for playing MxO?
Video card
6 posts · 2007-02-07 18:04:57 to 2007-02-08 20:06:04
I would say that varies based on the types of available slots in your machine, and the amount of $ you want to spend.
I used to have an ati X300 with 128MB physical ram. Cheap card, game played well, p4 3.0ghz and 1GB RAM may have helped.
Now I have an nvidia quadro fx 4500 w/512MB of ram. Expensive card, much farther draw distances if you tweak user opts, difficult to justify the cost just to play the Matrix.
Without knowing more about your machine (cpu, ram, current graphics cards, available types of slots; ex: AGP, PCI-E) it's tough to make a suggestion on a model. In general I'd suggest 256MB cards are cheap enough these days. Avoid all cards labeled with "Turbo Cache". Turbo Cache translates into using system memory to supplement a low amount of memory physically installed on the card. This has a negative impact on performance in my opinion.
Good Luck
also even if your able to afford it i wouldnt reccomend the nvidia geforce8800 as it seems that the new directx version coupled with the way nvidia threw out ethe vertex and pixel shading piplines and some pretty rushed drivers means that the card isint really mxo friendly.
if you can afford it i would say a geforce7950 (the single card version, not the 2 cards glued together monster,) that would do the job nicely.
if you can afford it i would say a geforce7950 (the single card version, not the 2 cards glued together monster,) that would do the job nicely.
At present, hands-down, the best video card for MxO is the nVidia 7950 GX2 (the 2 in 1 card) set to run as a single display (2x the processing power).
That's what I use and I get up to 55FPS with my settings tweaked past MxO default maximums (thanks to the useropts.cfg file) and 16x anti-aliasing.
get a E6600 dual core CPU and you can even FRAPS at that speed.
Hello 259
Not to adevertise but just speaking from personal experience I am happy with both the performance and cost of the x1600 pro.
TSRBradG's response has made me realise my post should have said:
..."hands-down the best nVidia based card"...
I'm not very well versed in ATI cards as I'm a bit of an nVidia addict.