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I'm looking to maybe upgrade my video card. Currently have ATI radeon 7000.. (ancient) looking maybe at ATI 9550 or close.. Trying to stay in the $100 range... What do you ppl use?
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
ATI 9550 is an antiquity as well. You can get a more modern card for that price, like Radeon 9600, X700 or X1300. You can also find some GeForce 6 for that price
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
mine is an ATI 9800, its at least two years old, maybe 3, but it still works well.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
well it depends if you have AGP or SLI express.

AGP the best card you can get is the 6800GX geforce, there will be a sever price drop soon when the 8x series comes out for direct X 10.

For SLI i am not compleatly sure for that price range...
100$ for a video card isnt very much
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Im sorely finding that out...lol .... I checked into the x700 and x1300 and reviews say stay away.. Im looking to basically upgrade from where im at... 9600pro was rated pretty high even now.. might look there
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
You can get a nVidia GeForce 7600GS on newegg for $114.99 with a $15 mail-in rebate, so it will be 99.99

I might not be the -greatest- card, but I use it and it can run anything I try on max settings, with a nice framerate.

An example would be with oblivion, all maxed, 1024x768 and around 30ish FPS outside, 40-50 inside. So that card will work. And it does run GalCiv2 greatly.

--Edit-- I forgot to mention, it is a PCI-E card, you would have to see if your motherboard supports PCI [Slow], AGP 4x/8X [medium], or PCI-E [newest, and fastest] [Correct me if I am wrong on those.]
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I'm still using my old ATI Radeon 9550 card, and can still play a lot of games with it.
Works fine, and only cost me about $80 (CDN).
Reply #9 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Heh, I used to have a 64MB Radeon 7000... It was a good card, played Civ IV with it (barely) for a little while, and it supposedly isn't supposed to be able to run the game at all.

I got a 256MB Radeon 9600 (AGP 8x) on sale at a local computer store for around $125 early this year (it happened to come with a free copy of Counterstrike: Source, too), and it plays GalCiv II and Civ IV perfectly fine, on maximum settings and 1280x1024 resolution. In fact, the only time I've really taxed it doing something would be when I went into flying camera mode in Civ IV and took this screenshot:

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You might be able to find yourself a good deal on a card over at www.Tiger Direct.com, also.
Reply #10 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Talked to a few puter geek friends of mine and they all pretty much agreed on the ati 9600 pro... x1300 is as bad as the reviews... Anyway found a good deal on a 9600 pro ...of all places an ebay store.. with shipping $70 new


thx for the help
Reply #11 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Talked to a few puter geek friends of mine and they all pretty much agreed on the ati 9600 pro... x1300 is as bad as the reviews... Anyway found a good deal on a 9600 pro ...of all places an ebay store.. with shipping $70 new


Consider a GeForce 6600. It is in your price range and is better than anything ATI can provide at that price level.