14-11-2005, 15:46 | #11 |
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Bad news darkness, this review says it has no AGP slot:
http://reviews-zdnet.com.com/Dell_Di...-31077378.html |
14-11-2005, 15:52 | #12 |
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And just so you know what to look for in the future:
Intergated - On chip solution, not great for games. has to share memory with CPU, good for internet and email, word processing AGP - Advanced Graphics Port (normally 4x or 8x is the speed factor...4x is a min requirement for most AGP graphics cards). Old technology, go for a motherboard with PCI express slot if you can. PCIe - PCI Express, is replacing AGP as it provides for more bandwidth between GPU and CPU. The future is here (for a while anyway!) All the new graphics cards come out with PCIe first then the AGP versions follow a few months later. AGP will be around for a good few years yet. |
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Or are there any graphics cards (that are good enough for civ4) that can connect to something else?
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14-11-2005, 16:50 | #15 |
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Well the onboard graphics you describe are the same I have here at work.
I run World or Warcraft and Half Life 2 on these "crappy onboard graphics" card things. I am almost certain you can get it running. Have you got the latest drivers from Intel? Believe it or not they do upgrade them and they do rock a little. Melifluous
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And just for fun I'm gonna try and install it at work now
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14-11-2005, 17:02 | #18 |
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your Dell 3000 has Intel Extreme 2 chipset, right? if so, it may be alright as that chipset can offload the transform and light to the CPU.
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Well that was simple enough.
The intro videos were complete crap (fuzzy multi coloured crap) but the game runs better than my laptop runs it. Laptop is P 2ghz Mobile and 512MB RAM with a Mobility Radeon 9000 32MB graphics card. PC is P4 2.8ghz, 1Gb RAM and intel 82915G intel chipset Might be ok matey. No black terrain, no visible side effects really, I guess it'll choke on Wonder Video's, but they all suck anyway. Melifluous
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