04-13-2004, 05:02 AM
I splurged and bought a new video card for my 30th birthday.
Now I've got:
AMD Athlon 1700+ XP
512 MB DDR RAM
ATI Radeon 9200se 128 VRAM
The 9200se is a dirt-cheap card. You can get one from newegg for about $45USD. I live in Canada, so I can't order from newegg. I did manage to find a local vendor selling one for $78CAD (about $58USD), which I thought was more than reasonable since video cards up here tend to be 1.5x more expensive (even after applying the currency exchange rate) than in the US. I paid another $10 to have them install it, and now I've got a 1 year parts and labour warantee on it.
I can now run WoW at 800x600 with all of the goodies turned up, and the farclip slider set to about half. I average 25-30 fps outside, and 40-50 fps inside. I haven't yet tried it at any higher resolution, but I suspect I could with little slowdown. Frankly, WoW looks simply gorgeous even at 800x600.
Now I've got:
AMD Athlon 1700+ XP
512 MB DDR RAM
ATI Radeon 9200se 128 VRAM
The 9200se is a dirt-cheap card. You can get one from newegg for about $45USD. I live in Canada, so I can't order from newegg. I did manage to find a local vendor selling one for $78CAD (about $58USD), which I thought was more than reasonable since video cards up here tend to be 1.5x more expensive (even after applying the currency exchange rate) than in the US. I paid another $10 to have them install it, and now I've got a 1 year parts and labour warantee on it.
I can now run WoW at 800x600 with all of the goodies turned up, and the farclip slider set to about half. I average 25-30 fps outside, and 40-50 fps inside. I haven't yet tried it at any higher resolution, but I suspect I could with little slowdown. Frankly, WoW looks simply gorgeous even at 800x600.