X300 Raidon...lol

[Tech-N9ne]

X300 Raidon guys...ahahhaha you think it will be fine for half-life 2....It ran Doom 3 fine.

I also got a X800 in my other comp but i'm not allowed games on that... ;(

 

[greatapoc]

I don't think you have one. If you did you would know it's a Radeon... X300 are PCI-E only as well, and I somehow find it hard to believe you have an LGA-775 system.

 

[Tech-N9ne]

I don't think you have one. If you did you would know it's a Radeon... X300 are PCI-E only as well, and I somehow find it hard to believe you have an LGA-775 system.

Uhh what man? The Raideon X300 came stock with the new comp i bought, but i didn't have enough to buy a high end card so i just left it, and i'm just wondering if it would be fine to play half life 2 with since it runned Doom 3 perfect....but whatever belive what you would like...Anyone else have an actuall oppinion and not some stupid assumption.

 

[greatapoc]

Uhh what man? The Raideon X300 came stock with the new comp i bought, but i didn't have enough to buy a high end card so i just left it, and i'm just wondering if it would be fine to play half life 2 with since it runned Doom 3 perfect....but whatever belive what you would like...Anyone else have an actuall oppinion and not some stupid assumption.

Terribly sorry about that man. That was not me that posted before, dumbarse mate that is at my house.

The X300 is a perfectly good card. What resolution and quality setting are you running Doom 3 with? Doom 3 is perfectly playable on my X800 XT PE at 1280x1024 Ultra quality.

You should have no troubles running Half Life 2 with nice graphics at a high res. Do you have CS: S? Give the VST a whirl and see how it goes.

Once again, sorry for that, no hard feelings.

 

[trizzm]

isn't Doom3 much harder on the graphics than HL2 anyway?

 

[Ecthe|ioN]

I would consider Doom 3 much harder on the GPU, yes.

 

[bryanf445]

X300 Raidon guys...ahahhaha you think it will be fine for half-life 2....It ran Doom 3 fine.

I also got a X800 in my other comp but i'm not allowed games on that... ;(

how do you have a x800 and cant use it for games?

 

[sHaDdoW]

x800 is basicly made for games if your going to use for anything else might as well have a cheap card

 

[bryanf445]

yea ill trade you my 9800 so your family can surf the web or w/e haha

 

[DiSTuRbEd]

If you can't use the X800 for gaming, what a waste of $400.

 

[Cole]

Ill trade you my 9600XT for your X800, trust me..you wont know the diffrence..

 

[Tech-N9ne]

Yeah i would see the thing is, i'm not good at taking cards out and switching it up lol so im stuck with it in that comp!!!!!

 

[Max_Payne]

dude come on, its not hard to take out a grpahics card. Just look up how to replace one on google. their are ton of websites out their. all legite too... the only way your gonna get that x800, is if u pull it out! DO IT! lol ahahah sorry bout that .. that was my evil side talking lol.

PEACE

Mike

 

[finer]

im buying a dell laptop:

ati x300
1 gb ram
1.5 ghz processor


will run hl2 & cs:s at medium quality?

if not, what about a 2 ghz -- though i would have to spend an extra $300

 

[giant384]

dont buy dell laptops if u want a gaming laptop go to www.ibuypower.com or cyberpower.inc

 

[J_Tweedy]

Tech, why dont you swap the video cards over? Whoever uses the x800 but not for games wont notice the difference between it and your x300.

 

[Stigmata]

dude come on, its not hard to take out a grpahics card. Just look up how to replace one on google. their are ton of websites out their. all legite too... the only way your gonna get that x800, is if u pull it out! DO IT! lol ahahah sorry bout that .. that was my evil side talking lol.

Don't some computer manufacturers make their computers so proprietary that even the video card can't be swapped out? I know that sometimes it's nigh-impossible to replace the motherboard on a Dell PC, at least for a novice techie.

 

[giant384]

nigh-impossible??? lol

 

[sinkoman]

What I would do is, when your parents aren't home, switch the x800 out for the x300. You'll have to reformat and all that good stuff but it'd be worth it.

EDIT: It probably isn't the same, but I ripped a HDD out of an old HP and it's running just fine in my nice new rig. It's probably a completely different thing though, because I repartitioned it after, since it had two different partitions. One for files, the other for HP's "recovery" stuff. Basically, their excuse for a reformat.

 

[duffers20]

What I would do is, when your parents aren't home, switch the x800 out for the x300. You'll have to reformat and all that good stuff but it'd be worth it.

Shouldn't have to reformat if you switch teh cards, they both use teh same drivers.

 

[sinkoman]

Shouldn't have to reformat if you switch teh cards, they both use teh same drivers.

Doesn't matter. Just putting a card into your pc and using it on a current install of windows can cause some issues. I've personnaly never done it, but I know it could cause problems.

Besides, doesn't it sorta make sense that it could cause problems? Suppose I just took out my cpu one day, swapped it out for another, and ran my current windows install off of that?

EDIT:But now that I think about it, I did that on that HP I was talking about. I just stuck a 9800 pro in the empty agp slot, and installed the drivers. Worked just fine.

So it shouldn't be too much of an issue swaping the cards. You shouldn't get any crap ass dell "OMGDZORZ TIS ISN'T T3H CARD W3 S0LLD U~!!!@!"

 

[Cole]

Wait, isn't the X300 Pci Express and the X800 Agp.... thus he cannot switch them....

 

[giant384]

u dotn need to format when changing video cards jsut cpu hardrive and mobo of course

 

[Ennui]

im buying a dell laptop:

ati x300
1 gb ram
1.5 ghz processor


will run hl2 & cs:s at medium quality?

if not, what about a 2 ghz -- though i would have to spend an extra $300

laptops suck penis for gaming, you need $3000 for a good one.

 

[Stigmata]

u dotn need to format when changing video cards jsut cpu hardrive and mobo of course

If you have Windows XP, it'll usually work fine even if you do switch motherboards. At least in my case, I didn't have to reformat after switching out boards and CPU's.

 

[giant384]

ya but wont the hd remember the mobo bios and then it wouldnt work with the new mobo but i guess that dosent happen often

 

[Cole]

Ok..just go to your parents say,
"Our non gaming comp would actually make an excellent gaming computer, far better than mine."

 

[giant384]

TECH u never did tell us if the x800 was pci-e if its agp well then sux for u lol

 

[ComradeBadger]

Doesn't matter. Just putting a card into your pc and using it on a current install of windows can cause some issues. I've personnaly never done it, but I know it could cause problems.

Besides, doesn't it sorta make sense that it could cause problems? Suppose I just took out my cpu one day, swapped it out for another, and ran my current windows install off of that?

EDIT:But now that I think about it, I did that on that HP I was talking about. I just stuck a 9800 pro in the empty agp slot, and installed the drivers. Worked just fine.

So it shouldn't be too much of an issue swaping the cards. You shouldn't get any crap ass dell "OMGDZORZ TIS ISN'T T3H CARD W3 S0LLD U~!!!@!"

Nope, it's fine to swap cards, I had a GeForce 4, and swapped it for a Radeon 9800.. just had to uninstall the drivers and put the new ones on, it's all good

 

[sinkoman]

Nope, it's fine to swap cards, I had a GeForce 4, and swapped it for a Radeon 9800.. just had to uninstall the drivers and put the new ones on, it's all good

Yesh. Like I said, now that I remember, I actually did that and it worked just fine.

 

[ComradeBadger]

Yea. Well, the only problem now is whether they are AGP or PCI-e.. if it's a prebuilt with the X800... then it's likely to be PCI-e

 

[hungryduck]

don't bother with gaming laptops that cost $1700. Buy a $1100 gaming computer and a $500 laptop from dell.

 

[Adidajs]

don't bother with gaming laptops that cost $1700. Buy a $1100 gaming computer and a $500 laptop from dell.

exactly. although i'm probably looking at an expensive laptop - IBM T43 i think. comes with fingerprint id system. how sweet is that?

 

[15357]

wasn't this thread a dead one from 6 months ago?

 

[sinkoman]

wasn't this thread a dead one from 6 months ago?

Apparently not :hmph:

Well, I would say don't buy a gaming pc. If you can, try to get somebody to build it for you. A buddy, or hell, even your buddy from works friends cousins fathers grandson. Buying a pc is much too much a ripp off. I checked at voodoo.com after setting up a custom order (that will NEVER go through), and a gaming pc running basically everything I am, that doesn't have ANY case fans (some bullshit voodoo "heat convection system") cost's about 3200 USD. That's what, 1600 USD more than I payed.