Call to graphics card experts. What graphics card would you suggest for someone who wants to upgrade from a Ti4200 to something that can play Doom3 reasonably well, with the expectation of doing a massive upgrade later this year when the new ATi and

[Ishamael]

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Call to graphics card experts. What graphics card would you suggest for someone who wants to upgrade from a Ti4200 to something that can play Doom3 reasonably well, with the expectation of doing a massive upgrade later this year when the new ATi and Nvidia cards come out?</div>

[Flip]

<div style='font: 10pt Tahoma; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc. ... 146&p=5</a>

This article shows the game playable on a 4400, 43.3 frame rate is fine in single player. Yeah, you'll get eaten up by the 100 fps guys in multi, but when you eventually upgrade, you'll be one of them.

It would be a waste of money to drop 100-150 for a current midrange card for a 6-10 month window just to play Doom 3 with the expectation that you'll get a top of the line card within a year, IMO.

Remember though, if you dont currently have 512 or greater RAM then it wont be your video card bottlenecking the game... what are the rest of your system specs, btw?

(there is also a secret tweak that supposedly gets the game going faster thart you could try, here: <a href="http://www.forumplanet.com/planetdoom/t ... id=1438663)">http://www.forumplanet.com/planetdoom/t ... id=1438663)</a></div>

[Ishamael]

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Thanks for the link. My 4200 is even lower than their lowest card (the 4400). And it's only 64 MB. But I'll try to put the game through its paces with the 4200 and see what happens.</div>

[Shellie]

<div style='font: 10pt georgia; text-align: left; '>Ehhh?? Doom3 requires something more than a 4200?? Mine has 128mb..hope its enough heh</div>

[Ishamael]

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>I'm thinking of dropping $500 on a GeForce 6800. I'm trying to sleep on it a few days to talk some sense into myself. :)</div>

[Shellie]

<div style='font: 10pt georgia; text-align: left; '>gah..I was looking at a tigerdirect.com catalog at work today that had one for like 299..forgot what the mb was though</div>

[Shellie]

<div style='font: 10pt georgia; text-align: left; '>You know eventually, youre going to have a seperate box for graphics processing. Youll build/upgrade it just like you would your tower.</div>

[Imakeholesinu]

<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>I've been shopping around as well for a vid card. I'd suggest the 6800 GT. I'm probably going to go with a 6800 standard since I'm a poor college student, but if I make enough money on the construction job this summer, then I will probably end up getting a GT. I would not recommend buying the Overclocked version of the GT since you can easily do that yourself with the nVidia tools or a program called Power Strip. I will be buying nVidia since the first card I ever had was an nVidia card (Riva 128 baby! CS beta 5.2 at a whopping 45.5 FPS!!!)</div>

[Tessian]

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>I play Doom 3 just fine on my Ti4400. 1024x768 at medium settings</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>The connections wouldn't be fast enough.</div>

[Lox]

<div style='font: bold 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Not until they begin using the body as a conductor of energy and information. ;)</div>

[Shellie]

<div style='font: 10pt georgia; text-align: left; '>It would still connect to the motherboard directly, but the video unit would just be an extension of the video card. I dont see what would be so hard about doing something like that...</div>

[Ishamael]

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>I've got the same settings on my 4200 and it plays great. I'll probably still upgrade though just to see what all special fx I'm missing...</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Not worth the time and effort?</div>