GRAPHICS CARD NE GOOD

[articfox]

i am thinking of buying this graphics card could neone tell me if it will be any good for ryzom MSI NVIDIA FX5600 vtdr128mb ddr 8x agp many thanks artic

[magick1]

Originally Posted by articfox

i am thinking of buying this graphics card could neone tell me if it will be any good for ryzom MSI NVIDIA FX5600 vtdr128mb ddr 8x agp many thanks artic

It all depends on what you think 'good' is.
The three most important components in a 3D computer game is, Gfx card, RAM and CPU. With those 3 in place nearly everything else is settled too.

You should have no problem playing the game with it.

[articfox]

thanks gonna get one its the best i can afford cant wait to play this game

Originally Posted by magick1

It all depends on what you think 'good' is.
The three most important components in a 3D computer game is, Gfx card, RAM and CPU. With those 3 in place nearly everything else is settled too.

You should have no problem playing the game with it.

[rrwfreak]

Originally Posted by articfox

i am thinking of buying this graphics card could neone tell me if it will be any good for ryzom MSI NVIDIA FX5600 vtdr128mb ddr 8x agp many thanks artic

It looks like you may have already purchased the card, but if not, heres some helpful information. The card is not quite as powerful as a FX5700 which you should be able to find for close to the same price and would be a better card, but the FX5600 should be fine for playing Ryzom. The FX5600 should perform about the same as an ATI Radeon 9600. Would help to know the rest of your system specs though.

Here is a comparison of the specs on the two cards.

FX5600

Memory Type and clock speed: 128 DDR @ 550mhz

GPU Core Type and clock speed: NV31 @ 325mhz

Pixel Pipelines: 4

FX5700

Memory Type and clock speed 128 DDR @ 550mhz

GPU Core Type and clock speed: NV36 @ 425mhz

Pixel Pipelines: 4

I use this site to look up different reviews on different makes and models of video cards, http://www.8dimensional.com/video-card-reviews/ , and here is a review of the card you are looking at abiet a couple of years old: http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1440

Here is a comparison of the card against a list of several other cards currently on the market and is only about 7 months old so it is a newer article, http://graphics.tomshardware.com/gra...004/index.html

Hope that helps or at least makes for some interesting reading if you are a techy like me.

[articfox]

thx for the great ionfo have not bought it yet but it simply is just what we can afford at the minute getting married this saturday but it should only cost me 30 pounds its second hand well here my pc specs OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name USER-K3X36EQPJ8
System Manufacturer Compaq
System Model 5365EA 470022-837
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 0 Stepping 10 GenuineIntel ~1495 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Compaq 686Y2 v1.05, 06/09/2001
SMBIOS Version 2.3
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)"

Time Zone GMT Standard Time
Total Physical Memory 256.50 MB
Available Physical Memory 87.49 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB
Page File Space 969.19 MB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

Originally Posted by rrwfreak

It looks like you may have already purchased the card, but if not, heres some helpful information. The card is not quite as powerful as a FX5700 which you should be able to find for close to the same price and would be a better card, but the FX5600 should be fine for playing Ryzom. The FX5600 should perform about the same as an ATI Radeon 9600. Would help to know the rest of your system specs though.

Here is a comparison of the specs on the two cards.

FX5600

Memory Type and clock speed: 128 DDR @ 550mhz

GPU Core Type and clock speed: NV31 @ 325mhz

Pixel Pipelines: 4

FX5700

Memory Type and clock speed 128 DDR @ 550mhz

GPU Core Type and clock speed: NV36 @ 425mhz

Pixel Pipelines: 4

I use this site to look up different reviews on different makes and models of video cards, http://www.8dimensional.com/video-card-reviews/ , and here is a review of the card you are looking at abiet a couple of years old: http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1440

Here is a comparison of the card against a list of several other cards currently on the market and is only about 7 months old so it is a newer article, http://graphics.tomshardware.com/gra...004/index.html

Hope that helps or at least makes for some interesting reading if you are a techy like me.

[mrozzy]

Originally Posted by articfox

Total Physical Memory 256.50 MB

Thats gonne be a problem, even with the best gfx card. Windows xp takes about 200mb of memory, the game takes 400-500mb (on the highest gfx settings). So, a large part of the game will run from your pagefile, wich will make the game pretty choppy. I recommend to add at least 500mb of memory (should be something like €50).

[defalgar]

my gf plays on a p3 1ghz with about 380mb ram (dont know exactly)
and an old geforce 2 with 64 mb and using windows xp prof and it works perfectly. it doesnt look so good tho but not choppy at all but on the other hand it is 200+-mb more tho then what he says

[articfox]

thx for help but what part do i need these was the only sort of memory i could find

Model 256MB PC3200 DDR 512MB PC3200 DDR

Price £30.84 £34.95

Bus Clock Rate 400 mhz 400 mhz

ECC/nonECC Not Specified Non-ECC

Module Configuration 184 pin 184 pin

[mrozzy]

Originally Posted by articfox

thx for help but what part do i need these was the only sort of memory i could find

Model 256MB PC3200 DDR 512MB PC3200 DDR

Price £30.84 £34.95

Bus Clock Rate 400 mhz 400 mhz

ECC/nonECC Not Specified Non-ECC

Module Configuration 184 pin 184 pin

Check the type you got in your computer now, check your mainboard manual what memory configurations you can add and if you can go to your closest dealer and order 500mb of the same type (bring your current memory if you wanne be 100% sure)

[articfox]

my pc needs a few things so i will take it to a shop near me and ask him to do the other things i need doing to it and ask him to add a another 512 mb of memory which should be about £30 so in a couple of months i should be up and running instead of crawling lol