ArcturusXIV on 9/11/2008 at 16:05
Quote Posted by Sulphur
It'll run okay at medium-ish, but you'd be much better off with something in the vicinity of an 8600/8800 GT or higher. If your system's well above the recommended requirements, the 6800's going to be quite the bottleneck for all your games in general. The 8-series cards aren't that expensive now, either.
The only thing is, I think I have AGP slots only, not PCI-Express. I was thinking about upgrading my video card, but without a PCI-E slot, how would I go about this?
Ostriig on 9/11/2008 at 16:34
Quote Posted by ArcturusXIV
The only thing is, I think I have AGP slots only, not PCI-Express. I was thinking about upgrading my video card, but without a PCI-E slot, how would I go about this?
For gaming purposes I think you may want to consider changing both the mainboard and the graphics card, or even the whole system altogether, depending on the rest of your specs. However, if you're set on just upgrading your graphics card, have a look at the following link:
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http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Graphics+Cards/AGP/?p=cF9zdHlsZT1saXN0JnBfcHJvZHVjdHNQZXJQYWdlPSY=)
Regardless of where you're from, this should help give you some idea of what sort of cards are still available for the AGP standard.
inselaffe on 9/11/2008 at 16:45
Boycott aria - when I was making my computer years ago, I ordered some parts from them including a monitor and the delivery arrived, signed for by the receptionist at my dad's work and even then it was not checked what was in there when signed. However we discovered the monitor was not there but assumed it was being sent later and they didn't have it in stock or something.
However weeks past and it still had not come so we emailed them and nothing. So we phoned them and nothing. Eventually, we drove all the way up to manchester to the shop, but arrived about 5 mins before closing time - but they were already shutting the shutters. We stuck a note through the door about it and eventually someone came out and talked to us about it.
He admitted they had been having monitors stolen from them on delivery by the courier and gave us his number and said to phone him and he will send one out for us next time.
However after many phone calls he eventually went back on this promise - very easy to do that on the phone. Aria then refused to send us a new monitor, saying that it had been signed for. However we personally, who did the order did not sign for it and also when you sign for something like that you do not get the chance to look in the box to see if it is all there.
I just think this is disgusting by aria when they blatantly admitted their couriers were nicking them. Around £140 was lost on that and I must say their customer service was wretched despite that - the amount of chasing we had to do to even get a responce - many many emails not responded to, and being kept ages on the phone and things.
Ostriig on 9/11/2008 at 17:03
Wow, that sounds pretty bad. I've had no problems with them, they came recommended from a friend, but then again, neither of us had to deal with their customer support. I'll have to keep this in mind. How many years ago was this?
Still, this time around I only linked to Aria because of their convenient product type filter, not to recommend the shop itself.
ArcturusXIV on 9/11/2008 at 17:07
It sounds like it's time for an upgrade. :S Sad...
ZylonBane on 9/11/2008 at 17:21
Quote Posted by ArcturusXIV
The only thing is, I think I have AGP slots only, not PCI-Express. I was thinking about upgrading my video card, but without a PCI-E slot, how would I go about this?
You go to Newegg and search for AGP video cards. They still make AGP versions of the newer cards, surprisingly.
inselaffe on 9/11/2008 at 17:25
Hmm I just checked my emails and it appears it was october 2004 and was still trying to resolve it into january 2005 but in the end it was clear they were not intending to be helpful at all.
Ostriig on 9/11/2008 at 17:28
Ouch! Yeah, I can see why that would be frustrating.
inselaffe on 9/11/2008 at 17:41
yes :(
ArcturusXIV on 9/11/2008 at 20:31
Quote Posted by ZylonBane
You go to Newegg and search for AGP video cards. They still make AGP versions of the newer cards, surprisingly.
Wow! That's great... I will totally do that. My system is definitely bottlenecked at the moment, but I wouldn't mind having a newer video card if I can afford it.
