I'm buying a computer. Help!
miros1:
My nVidia card is working perfectly since I updated the drivers. Was just a long wait for the updated drivers...
trl:
I have had both ATI and GEForce. I had problems with my first NVidia card, after ten days NVidia techs decided that I should return the card, it was defective. I then purchased an ATI 9200 series card (not sure which) and it ran flawlessly and my sim pics were gorgeous but it was 256 mb, a bit slow but not too bad. I then got a GEForce 7300GT 512mb and again had nothing but trouble. It had the terrible crash problem until the new beta driver was released. Now I am very happy. The extra video RAM in the graphic card made a huge difference in how fast things moved for me during game play. So I am not sure what to tell you. I agree with all on the Processor RAM. I have found that with all the EP's loaded and Downloads I needed at least 1 gig of Ram for it to run smooth and am now getting ready to go up to 2 gigs. Get the best card you can afford. Good luck. :)
lineman:
A couple of months ago I replaced my old Dell Pentium4, 80gb H.D.with a Visionman gaming computer. It uses a Pentium D935 dual core 3.2Ghz, 4MB cache, nVidia 7300 GS PCI express 256MB with Turo cache for 512MB. Also 500GB sATA II H.D.,8 channal audio and a 20X Lie-on dual layer DVD-RW, and Flash card reader. This is the best computer I've ever owned, it's price is probably more than you wish to spend, it was $1149. They do make gaming computers down to $500 or $600, ckeck them at visionman.com or tigerdirect.com.
Ramika:
Thanks again everyone :worship:
It does seem that the nVidia card would be a better investment. So, I think I'll go for the second combination even though it's more expensive. At this point I'm willing to pay a fortune for smooth gameplay. XD
I'll go buy the computer next thursday. *nervous*
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