How would you rate your video card?

Exfoliate · July 24, 2005, 4:23pm

Just tell me what video card you have and use the poll. Any futher opinions are cool too.
I’ve got an XFX 6800 (non GT/Ultra) and it’s okay. It plays things like Painkiller and MaxPayne 2 flawlessly on max settings but FarCry could be better and HL2 is a major dissappointment on this card. If it had GDDR3 256Mbs or vram I probably wouldn’t be complaining though.
EDIT:
Low-end cards: 9600/5700 (non-pro/Ultra and below)
Mid-range cards: 9600 Pro/5900 (or 5800U)-X700/6600
High-end cards: X800SE or X700 Pro/6600GT-X850XTPE/7800GTX or above.

Addis · July 24, 2005, 4:58pm

Mine’s shit. It doesn’t work. Simple.

Exfoliate · July 24, 2005, 8:01pm

Man, what a bummer, what are you calling your card? Lowend or highend? I was thinking midrange myself.

Addis · July 24, 2005, 8:07pm

Sorry i called it high end disappointing cause i saw the x700 was there.. Should be mid range.

ninja_fetus · July 24, 2005, 10:25pm

9600xt - mid. I love it though Never given me any problems and overclocks well with minimal heat output.

system · July 25, 2005, 12:12am

6800GT

doom3 32-37 6xAA 16xAF on 1280 1024

love it

Exfoliate · July 25, 2005, 2:45am

On Ultra? Ah my rig’s crap to yours.

system · July 25, 2005, 1:12pm

idk its biased it plays amazingly on doom3 but for example if i put those settings on cs:s then i get artifacting i think, purple marks on the tiles and some walls, and it looks horrible and i still get like 100 something fps, not all video cards are created equal

kool_azn · July 25, 2005, 9:26pm

mines an XFX Geforce 5500 its worse than dog shit

ninja_fetus · July 26, 2005, 12:10am

I get purple artifacts sometimes in HL2. No other game.

Exfoliate · July 26, 2005, 12:21am

The only game that gives me artifacts is FarCry, some shadows are super bright and ultra saturated, like a glowing yellow thing. I’d get a patch but it’s too big and I don’t play it any more.

system · July 26, 2005, 12:27am

i used to have no shading and hard a*s artifacting in farcry, but after i downloaded the patches the problems went away

i just had to have artifacting on counterstrike, a game which i suck at and addicted to

Matt555 · July 26, 2005, 11:30am

yeah my card isnt amazing, its alright for what i do though, i mean i dont do any gaming so i dont need a killer graphics card, its an old MSI GeForce Fx 5200 (128Mb) andd its fine for what i do, if i did get into gaming though i’d have to upgrade the memory, cpu, motherboard and then go for a nice PCI-e card…but i dont need to yet

n0chi · July 26, 2005, 9:31pm

i play on a laptop at the moment lol… but actually im pulling 40 fps in cs:s… i believe i have a geforce go fx 5200 64mb, and its not too shabby i must say

Big_B · July 27, 2005, 2:31am

For what I do, the 6600GT is more than I need, but it’ll do just fine, considering how often I game these days.