Just bought a new video card Options

[CheesyLobster]

Well, after buying HL2, I decided that it was time to stop running off of my intigrated mother board video, and finally get a real card. After lots of concideration, I just ordered a ATI Radeon 9800pro 128mb All-in-wonder. Even though they are just coming out with the 800X series, i figued that this was a better value (250 shipped from newegg.com).

I've heard not so good things about VIVO video cards, but it just sound so cool to me to be able to watch tv on the computer.

So did I make a good choice? I know I probably should have asked for advice before i bought it, but i couldnt wait.

Setup:
Asus motherboard
2.8ghz P4
80gb maxor hdd
768mb pc3200 400ddr
intigrated sound
ATI Radeon 9800pro 128mb All-in-wonder

[Uppitycracker]

Ya Im finding even with an x800 pro, it has trouble with doom3 on max graphics, setting the clock a tad higher fixes this, its amazing the detail in that game. Farcry and HL2 it has no problem with. Anti aliasing is a real killer of frame rates, aswell as anisotropic filtering. I usually have aa at x4 and ani at x8 or x16 which looks really good.

If your waiting a while for a card, maybe wait till ati comes out with its 512mb cards, whenever that may be. It might be long off in which case Id reccomend a x800xt, I wish I would have got that instead, it benchmarks significantly higher then my card.

But ya the 9800 isnt a bad card, and its half the price of a x800. Maybe look into some heavy cooling for it so you can OC it a bit if needed.I can get my x800 to 550/550 stable with stock cooler.