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Well, this is the inevitable thread due the performance issues some of us have been having.

I have an Athlon64 3500+ Newcastle with 1gb ram and a FX 5200. My noble eye catched the attention of a young peasant called XFX nVidia 7600GS. Do you thing is worth the money to hide my bastard child? Or should I gain a Chaste perk? The problem is, im stuck with AGP.

Thanks!
 

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the 7600 hundred should be okay.

too bad about the AGP though. IME P.C.I.-E is better
 

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If you're planning to play only EU3 then buy it.
 

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Peksi said:
If you're planning to play only EU3 then buy it.

Yeah. I dont plan to buy a new PC now, it's just plain stupid to do so when all the games I play run flawlessly on in and the same applies to the apps. So i wanna make a little invest in EU III and also play Proevolution Soccer 6 in 1024x768 instead of 640x480 :p

I know PCI-E has outrunned AGP, but well, as said, no new PC for now, pointless.

What cards you guys have.
 

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GS is like the tweaked down version of the GT.

DDR2, 3, etc are RAM types. Being DDR2 the slowest.

Edit: here the GT version is like 100 USD more expensive than the GS, that's the main reason i'm not getting it. But if you think this is going to be your video card for 2+ years and you game a lot, i'd prefer it. And you are in a rich country, dont be cheap like me :p
 

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I think a 7600 is enough for him. There is one thing to watch for when buying a 7600GS: The memory clocks. The standard memory for the card is 800MHz, some vendors swap that to cheaper and slower, sometimes significantly slowing the card. Before buying, look at what the memory clock frequency of the card is and DO NOT BUY one that is at 540MHz, 667 MHz is debatable.

Things to look out especially are the cards with 512MB of cheap memory, they are significantly slower than ones with 256MB of good memory.
 

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I'm running with an geforce 6600 LE at the office, and a 6600 at home. (Just bought a random cheap geforce when my fan wore out a year ago on my old card.. Payed like 50€ or so.

If you are paying money for a new card to play Eu3, I'd recommend going with an Nvidia.
 

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Balor said:
I'm running with an geforce 6600 LE at the office, and a 6600 at home. (Just bought a random cheap geforce when my fan wore out a year ago on my old card.. Payed like 50€ or so.

If you are paying money for a new card to play Eu3, I'd recommend going with an Nvidia.

I have the same card (I feel so honored) and it works fine.
 

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I just purchase a [ 256MB NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS ] to go into the new laptop that I just purchased. The salesperson tried to sell me the intel card, but I told him "No, that's not what Balor has."

I think that it could have been foolish to purchase a new laptop just to play EU III, but think of all of the time that I will save by completing my homework at school. :rofl:

The only problem is that my lack of foresight leaves me waiting until February to play because I don't have a computer... but i can still play EU II.

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