question about compatabilty with vid card

OK, here goes.....I know its sad but i own a p4 with a 512 PCI NVIDIA card that runs coh fairly well (surprisingly enough).

I am buying a new comp with my tax return, but not in the market for a 1500 buck comp. However, I did run across a few and the one that I saw that was reasonably priced has an ati raedeon hd 4200, and i was wondering if anyone knew if that would fly on COx.

I dont care too much about ultra mode and if I ever do, ill just run out and get a better card to visually stimulate myself, I just need to know if anyone knows if this card will work on the game.

Thanks!

I'm assuming desktop here.

It's integrated video, part of the motherboard chipset so compared to even the low end of the current crop of cards, it's still slower than those. It will likely take a chunk of system memory for it's own use.

Now since we don't know which PCI nVidia you have (also assuming PCI and not PCIe) it's tough to make the comparison.

You can use this chart which orders them in approximate performance. A true PCI interface is very, very slow relative to PCIe (even AGP 2x) so the card you currently use, assuming PCI, would be bumped down a bin or two in that chart.

How are you on assembling your own computer?

Father Xmas's sig there has some decent setups (note, $13/1400 dollar one has some out of stock parts atm).

I Am currently playing on a Notebook with a ATI HD 4550. while it runs ok, I do have to turn some settings down to keep my frame rate up and most ultra mode stuff is off limits. Now with the new content, mostly Praetorian maps, it does become sluggish.

Going by the model number alone, (which is tricky) you mentioned a HD 4200, I would not recommend a computer with that GPU, as I wish i had a better one, and I feel you will be feeling the same way. One option would to buy a mid to lower range PC, good RAM and processor, but with a cheap GPU, and adding a better video card. Just be sure that the computer has the expansion slot for the flavor of Video card that you want. It should be as easy as disabling the onboard video in the BIOS, popping in a new card and installing drivers.

the one im looking at is a dual core processor. with 8 gigs ram, just that ati raedeon hd 4200 i didnt expect it to do GR (which im not a big fan of to begin with, just seems like more of the same to me.)

Anyhow, as long as it runs above minimum setting is all i really care about. the slots on the are PCIe, my first above pci comp ever. It has one pice x16 slot and 3 pcie x1 slots.

ill see if i can find the other specs.

here goes:

Processor Type: AMD Athlon II 250
Hard Drive Size: 1TB
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Monitor Size: N/A
Processor
Type: AMD Athlon II X2 250 / 3 GHz
Multi-Core Technology: Dual-Core
RAM
Installed Size: 5 GB / 16 GB (max)
Technology: DDR3 SDRAM
Storage
Hard Drive: 1 x 1 TB - standard - Serial ATA-300 - 7200 rpm

Then, I would say go for it but, someday you will want to upgrade to a PCIe stand-alone video card.

thanks for all your help people!

Went looking on newegg and such and ran across a gaming system that may take the guess work out of it, but may run an extra couple hundred but looks like it may solve the problem for awhile...and a quad core :P

for reference (not spam) the two site i ran across were newegg.com and tigerdirect.com

Both were selling decent high powered gamers at decent prices.

Once agan thanks for the help! And the card list was EXTREMELY HELPFUL

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