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April 4th, 2005 05:00

Question about Compatability

I am currently running on a Dell Dimension 3000. I am looking into a Video Card upgrade so that I can play games like "World of Warcraft" and "Halflife 2", but i'm not sure If an ATI Radeon X700 Pro 256MB GDDR3 DVI/TV/PCI-Express is compatible on my machine from a friendly Circuit City. If anyone can tell Me my limits on my machine and what kind of Decent gaming Video cards that are a cheap price, then that would be great. Is the ATI Radeon X700 compatible on my machine? Thanks for any help!
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    Kadaj

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    Posted April 4th, 2005 05:00

    gamming and the Dim 3000 dont mix. It's a PCI only mainboard. The best graphics card you can possibly install is a Geforce FX5700LE. They're pretty easy to find (there are FX5600 PCI cards avaliable that run at faster clock speeds, but the FX5700LE core is superior and dosent have to run as fast to out-perform the 5600's core)
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    Koleiki

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    Posted April 4th, 2005 06:00

    But is that Graphics card a good enough standard for high tech Massive Multiplayer online games like World of Warcraft? Will I even be able to run it? And i'm guessing this means I cannot use the ATI Radeon X700??
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    ejn63

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    Posted April 4th, 2005 12:00

    You can probably run the game in low-resolution, low frame rate mode.

    If you want to game, the bare minimum to consider is a 4700 system - better yet, an 8400 or XPS.
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    mrbaggs

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    Posted April 4th, 2005 18:00

    And to clarify, the X700 is PCI express which will not work in a standard PCI slot like you have.
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    Koleiki

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    Posted April 5th, 2005 01:00

    Okay well here is another question. If I don't want to upgrade my system for a 4700+ what is a good motherboard compatible with my Intel Pentium 4 with PCI-Express Compatability?

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