Video Card and Memory

[Paín]

I had a Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB video card and 1.5 GB of memory, I was getting bad FPS and framerate lag and wanted to upgrade my system. I bought a Radeon HD 2400 Pro 512MB and noticed 0% difference. I also bought 4GB of memory but it didn't fit in my computer. So my question is can anyone tell me a good video card for around 100-150$ that I will notice a big difference from my old 256MB and where can I find 2GB DDR1 RAM?

[shkm]

Originally Posted by Paín I had a Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB video card and 1.5 GB of memory, I was getting bad FPS and framerate lag and wanted to upgrade my system. I bought a Radeon HD 2400 Pro 512MB and noticed 0% difference. I also bought 4GB of memory but it didn't fit in my computer. So my question is can anyone tell me a good video card for around 100-150$ that I will notice a big difference from my old 256MB and where can I find 2GB DDR1 RAM?

I've been running an 8800GT for nearly a year and I can strongly recommend it. It's no longer the best around, but it should fit quite snuggly into that budget now.

DDR1 RAM? Not a clue, but you may want to look into upgrading your motherboard/CPU if it's an option.

PS: I also upgraded from a similar system.

[Tsikura]

This should be better than that 2400.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814102730

[Petrah]

Originally Posted by Paín I had a Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB video card and 1.5 GB of memory, I was getting bad FPS and framerate lag and wanted to upgrade my system. I bought a Radeon HD 2400 Pro 512MB and noticed 0% difference. I also bought 4GB of memory but it didn't fit in my computer. So my question is can anyone tell me a good video card for around 100-150$ that I will notice a big difference from my old 256MB and where can I find 2GB DDR1 RAM?

WoW is more dependent on your CPU than it is on your video card. You may wish to look into upgrading your processor.

[Tekkub]

Agreed, throw a good CPU at it as well.

I recently got an AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual core 5000+ and a GeForce 9600GSO. Things run wonderfully.

Oh and if you're on AGP still, don't bother till you can get a motherboard with PCIe.

[Raziel08]

Originally Posted by Tekkub Agreed, throw a good CPU at it as well. I recently got an AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual core 5000+ and a GeForce 9600GSO. Things run wonderfully. Oh and if you're on AGP still, don't bother till you can get a motherboard with PCIe.

as a pc engineer totaly agree!

I have AMD Athlon X64x2 6400 Black Edition
and 1x Nvidia 8800GT Ultra (Asus) in mine and i can run 2 versions of wow simultaniosly at 60fps constant no problem