Video Card Decision.

[brickybob]

I'm trying to revive an old stuffbox for a computer so I can play CS 1.6 on LAN with my friend.

What video card should I get?  I had the Radeon HD 4550 and it's worked well and it's about $45.

Gimmie suggestions.

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[MackTheHunter]

Depends on what ports you have in your PC. Provide what motherboard you have.

[brickybob]

Depends on what ports you have in your PC. Provide what motherboard you have.

It has USB ports(?) and whatever comes with hp pavilion 6735.

[MackTheHunter]

It has USB ports(?) and whatever comes with hp pavilion 6735.

This is your motherboard.



This is the layout of your motherboard.



1 - COM 2 connector
2 - CPU fan connector
3 - CPU socket 370
4 - 82810-DC100
5 - DIMM sockets
6 - RTC battery   15
7 - PS fan connector
8 - Power connector   
9 - Floppy drive connector
10 - IT8702
11 - Speaker
12 - IDE connectors
13 - JP-6 clear CMOS
14 - Front panel connector
15 - 82802AP (ROM)
16 - 82801AA
17 - CD-ROM connector
18 - PCI slots

As you can see through the layout you only have 3 regular PCI slots. Some graphical processors the are designed for PCI-Express (PCI-E) can be socketed in a regular PCI slot. Quite a few of them do not support this.

Put in short: It's really necessary that you have a PCI-E slot on your computer if you want to install a graphical processor that is at least powerful.

If you want you can research Graphical Processors that still support regular PCI.

Also going to point out that you're motherboard still only supports IDE for Disc drives and hard drives... ouch...

[Ziyek]

I'm trying to revive an old stuffbox for a computer so I can play CS 1.6 on LAN with my friend.

What video card should I get?  I had the Radeon HD 4550 and it's worked well and it's about $45.

Gimmie suggestions.

Thats the exact video card I have.

[Lugnut]

It has USB ports(?) and whatever

above is all I read before going onto the next post, I lol when I see it, thinking your joking.
I fail

[brickybob]

@Mack
Which brings me to my next point,
what's a small v-card that can run cs 1.6 @ 40 fps.

[MackTheHunter]

@Mack
Which brings me to my next point,
what's a small v-card that can run cs 1.6 @ 40 fps.

I can't exactly name any off the top of my head.

[Headcrab Zombie]

I can't exactly name any off the top of my head. I know that it says on the box for my new card (EVGA NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 460) that it supports regular PCI as well as PCI Express 2.0 X16.

There's no way it could support PCI and PCIe considering they're different size slots, what you probably mean is it support PCI Express x16 as well as PCI Express 2.0 x16


Answering the OP's question - I doubt  there's any video card still being sold that CAN'T run CS 1.6

[halcynthis]

I can't exactly name any off the top of my head. I know that it says on the box for my new card (EVGA NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 460) that it supports regular PCI as well as PCI Express 2.0 X16.

I've always liked the Nvidia Geforce series. I had a fx 5200, and now I have the 210. 1024mb. :D

[MackTheHunter]

There's no way it could support PCI and PCIe considering they're different size slots, what you probably mean is it support PCI Express x16 as well as PCI Express 2.0 x16


Answering the OP's question - I doubt  there's any video card still being sold that CAN'T run CS 1.6

Odd. Checking this now

My mistake. My card supports PCI Express X16 and AGP 4X 8X (3.0/2.0 8v socket or a 2.0 Universal slot (1.5v).

[Headcrab Zombie]

Odd. Checking this now

My mistake. My card supports PCI Express X16 and AGP 4X 8X (3.0/2.0 8v socket or a 2.0 Universal slot (1.5v).

Those are different sized slots as well.

[MackTheHunter]

Those are different sized slots as well.

It says right in the EVGA manual that I can do it.