Need A Recommendation For A CS Card

March 28th, 2005, 02:35 PM

Currently i'm playing on this setup:
P4 2GHZ
256 MB DDRAM
Sapphire Radeon 9550 128mb 128bit

There are major drops when there are more than 4 players displayed on the screen or when the action begins.

Before purchasing the Radeon 9550 I had a Innovision GeForce 2 MX 400 which pulled 100 FPS stable at almost all conditions except for smokes and so on.
Of course I don't intend on buying a GeForce2 again (my old one is dead after 2.5 years of performance) so I was looking for your help!

Please people only comments from those who understand:
mainly CS players who own a similiar setup or ones who know their way around in this crap.

I'm looking to buy a GeForce 5200 or a GeForce 4 MX 440 and I need to know what's better for CS to pull 100 FPS stable, now obviously the FX 5200 is better but I read somewhere that newer GeForce cards had lowered performance in CS than the GF 4 or even GF2.

Need your help!!! *help#

**Regeneration** · March 28th, 2005, 02:43 PM

FX5200 and GF4MX are same for CS. both cant handle Smokes due the Pipelines/Shaders lacks.

Grab a Mid-range card (FX5700)

Danhill · March 28th, 2005, 04:45 PM

Go for a Geforece 6600 GT, you can't go wrong with that, I promise you.

Stay away from the GF 5000 series of card!!

credo · March 28th, 2005, 06:18 PM

first of all i recommend to upgrade your CPU , MotherBoard and the memory.
you will feel the diferences..
you cant buy a new card because your system will not use all the perfoemences of the new ATI(starts from R9800P) series or the Nvidia series(starts from 5900XT)
oh and i reommend to buy a PC that support SLI & PCI-E,due possible upgrade in future.

3j3ct · March 28th, 2005, 06:49 PM

go buy a 6600gt and OC it and go play CS:S *victory#

March 28th, 2005, 10:53 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by credo@Mar 28 2005, 04:18 PM
first of all i recommend to upgrade your CPU , MotherBoard and the memory.
you will feel the diferences..
you cant buy a new card because your system will not use all the perfoemences of the new ATI(starts from R9800P) series or the Nvidia series(starts from 5900XT)
oh and i reommend to buy a PC that support SLI & PCI-E,due possible upgrade in future.

So do I *good# *clapping#

Example:
Athlon 64 3200+
DFi Nforce 4
2*512mb DDR
Geforce 6200 PCi-EX
I suggest a Brand PSU (Enermax, OCZ, etc...)

If your budget is low, it changes all *blush#

March 29th, 2005, 11:03 AM

And if I don't have a budget at all? :cry:

Besides my rig pulled 100 FPS with Innovision GeForce 2 MX 400 64mb!! of course it would choke in smoke to like 75 FPS but still it had great performance... at least till it died on me after 2.5 years :dance:

credo · March 29th, 2005, 01:30 PM

so gather some money ...
I dont recommend to buy anew card now , your R9550 is good , keep it!

kafkacell · April 10th, 2005, 06:07 AM

You don't need to change your 9550 for a 5200! if you want to change your vid card go at least for 6200 which is almost the same than yours...

And add more RAM to your system... it's asking for more.

eXtortion · April 10th, 2005, 07:52 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Danhill@Mar 28 2005, 02:45 PM
Go for a Geforece 6600 GT, you can't go wrong with that, I promise you.

Stay away from the GF 5000 series of card!!

DONT BUY THE 5-SERIES INDEED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FROM EXPERIENCE