ATI X1300 Pro - The Way To Go.

drakenx9

drakenx9

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Hey guys, I haven't been on for a while and neither have I played Black & White 2 for a long time but I decided to get back into it after overclocking my graphics card to the max with ATI's RadLinker. Black & White 2 works great. Everything maxed out, the battle scene at the beginning of the game was lag free. If not that it maybe only lagged for half a second.. I'm in total love with this baby now. IMy PC Specs aren't very good either.
Small Example:
2.60 GHz
1 and a half GB of DDR SDRam(Started with 512MB = Half a GB)
Intel Pentium 4
Windows XP

...I am totally addicted right now. And you can find it for pretty good deals compared to a lot of high-priced graphics cards..
Check it out guys.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B000E5VQP4/sr=8-1/qid=1266553912/ref=olp_pg_new?ie=UTF8&coliid=&startIndex=0&me=&qid=1266553912&sr=8-1&seller=&colid=&condition=new

I am going insane right now. XP
And the weirdest thing is.. I'm overclocking it over what I could have in RivaTuner.
RivaTuner would crash my computer. This thing doesnt.. Once again, Check it out guys.
http://majorgeeks.com/RadLinker_d4156.html
It's sweet! XP
 
Not to put a damper on your fire  but the X1300 pro is a very old and slow card by today's standards. At that price you could get so much more "Bang for your buck"
I use this card half the price and a lot more power.  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150450
Check out the vidio card rankings anywhere you like eg. http://www.overclock.net/graphics-cards-general/502403-graphics-card-ranking-5th-time-last.html
 
Yep, Gremxula hit it spot on.  Look at this card using today's standards: http://www.notebookcheck.net/ATI-Mobility-Radeon-X1300.2166.0.html

See the 3DMark05 benchmarks for comparison.  It's a Class 4 card, as rated by notebookcheck.net...  But it's better than mine: I'm running a GeForce7150 (rated Class 5) on a 3 or 4 year-old notebook  :rolleyes. 

I'm looking into an upgraded Toshiba Satellite laptop with a GeForce 330M and GDDR3 memory, of course: http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-330M.22437.0.html    :yourock:
 
None of those cards are AGP like the one Draken listed. Having said that, so far as I can tell ATI is still the only one out of themselves and NVidia still doing any development on AGP, but they stop at 4670 from what I can tell, so still three generations newer  :p Even for older systems however, I'd still agree with Gemxula - there are newer animals out there

But still, it just goes to show there is life in them yet, especially as I maintain to this day that along with Okami, BW2 is still one of the more awesome looking games out there  :)
 
This is HD4650 and AGP and 1 gig of on-board video ram that I found in a few seconds, the same card should be in the US too..
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/179227

 
I have a GeForce GTS 250 1024 MB, and I work Black & White 2 with it and its amazing graphics. To be honest, I actually enjoy the game with the amazing graphics.
 
Gremxula said:
This is HD4650 and AGP and 1 gig of on-board video ram that I found in a few seconds, the same card should be in the US too..
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/179227
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yep  :) And here's the 4670 - not as cheap mind you, but that bump in the clock speeds and the faster memory should be decent
 
It is as I run a 4670 but only the 512 version it stomps over B&W2 maxed out and allows some video encoding on the side at 1680x1050 best bang for your buck at the time for a PCIe2 version of the card.
Just looking at the box details Max res is 3840x2400 for a single card but cross fire enabled and DX10.1
It has reached a point for some of my customers that  a cheap new mobo with a graphic chip-set and an equivalent CPU or better is cheaper/better than getting an expensive AGP card.

 
Gremxula said:
It is as I run a 4670 but only the 512 version it stomps over B&W2 maxed out and allows some video encoding on the side at 1680x1050 best bang for your buck at the time for a PCIe2 version of the card.
Just looking at the box details Max res is 3840x2400 for a single card but cross fire enabled and DX10.1
It has reached a point for some of my customers that  a cheap new mobo with a graphic chip-set and an equivalent CPU or better is cheaper/better than getting an expensive AGP card.
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SWEEET. I'll check that card out as well. =]
I plan on getting two good PCs working =P[br][br]Added: [time]1267135761[/time]
Gremxula said:
This is HD4650 and AGP and 1 gig of on-board video ram that I found in a few seconds, the same card should be in the US too..
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/179227
Click to expand...

I live in the U.S. though.
Is it possible if i buy it still?  ???
 
Should be just "google" the manufactures code or model No and you should find some local sellers.
But in the GCard world something cheaper/faster/better comes out nearly every week.

 
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