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Originally Posted by pacaveli
well i do plan to upgrade my video card in the future. The 9600 looks decent for a short term maybe a year or less time period. i plan to take this PC to college soon rather than a Notebook. So it'll have to last a good deal of time. Im not looking for something to run like high end games and i looked on the guild wars website.
this is the minimum they suggest
ATI Radeon 8500 or GeForce 3 or 4 MX Series Video Card with 32MB of VRAM
this is what they recomend
ATI Radeon 9000 or GeForce 4 Ti Series Video Card with 64MB of VRAM
so i think i'll be safe with my 70 dollar 9600 card. that will most lieky be the highest end game i end up playing. Im more of an old school player anyways. Diablo 2, starcraft, dungeon keeper 2, Populous the beggining, maybe some civilization 3 every once and while. Nothing too crazy that this card won'e be able to handle
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Keep in mind that when they do these minimums and recommended graphics card they go with what will run the game with everything turned down (graphicly speaking). I would really recommend what lasereth recommended for parts. You can always upgrade the AMD processor for pretty darn cheap later on and have a decent gfx card. Sure, the 9600 will run Guild Wars, but it by no means will make it nearly as enjoyable as playing it on the 9800 Pro. I'm surprised at how long the card itself has stayed up there, but it is a damn good card. Just don't be like I was until I upgraded my graphics card recently:
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AMD Athlon XP 3200+, watercooled with a Zalman Reserator I and OCd
PC Power & Cooling TurboCool 510 Deluxe PSU
ASUS A7N8X mobo
1 gig DDR
Western Digital 250GB Caviar Edit. HD
Plextor PX712A 12x DVD-/+RW
Sony DVD-ROM
5 80mm case fans (all Antec, 3 of which are clear with blue LEDS)
Chieftec blue aluminium full tower case w/window in side panel
*PNY Geforce FX 5200 Ultra graphics card with 128MB DDR*
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