Video Card for Fable

[fablefanevil]

i just bought fable, but my graphics card doesn't work. whats a cheap graphics card for a dell dimension 8200 that will work

[DaMulta]

Do you have AGP or PCI-express?

[LiNKiN]

Well, according to this link (http://www.microsoft.com/games/fable/support.aspx) if you were to get an X800 series card or a higher end 9 series ATI card, you should be good to go! :toast: And you should be able to nab one for cheap nowadays! I am assuming that this is the motherboard (http://cgi.ebay.com/DELL-DIMENSION-8200-MOTHER-BOARD-1T751_W0QQitemZ150126781538QQcmdZViewItem) that you have.

[fablefanevil]

Agp

[Scythez0r]

Well, I know that my old Radeon 9200 ran it perfectly, so I suppose anything better than that (and even prior to that) is fine.

How much are you willing to spend?

[Darren]

i just bought fable, but my graphics card doesn't work. whats a cheap graphics card for a dell dimension 8200 that will work


The below video cards are the cheapest cards that should play most your games on medium for about a year, assuming that the rest of your system is moderately spec'ed. Please post your full specification

1650 PRO/XT
1800 GTO
1950XT (recommended)

Nvidia

6600 GT
6800GT
7600 GT/GTS (recommended)
7900 GT/GTS (recommended)
8600 & 8500 GT/GTS (supports DX 10)(recommended)

[DaMulta]

1950XT (recommended) 8600 & 8500 GT/GTS(supports DX 10)(recommended)

that would last another 3 years

[Darren]

1950XT (recommended) 8600 & 8500 GT/GTS(supports DX 10)(recommended)

that would last another 3 years

yeah probably...But I dont want to get his hopes up, because his system is probably old, he still has an AGP slot:roll:

[DR.Death]

no dell uses stuff that u cant really upgrade or that is really cheep

[Darren]

Suppose, but suppose the system is 3/4 years old, we can assume the CPU and Ram will bottleneck the system, so max performance from a new graphics card will not be achieved. However, I feel that fable should play easily with just the card upgrade, however newever and more intensive games will be a big problem.

[Bret]

X1950 Pro/XT for AGP is probably the best way to go.

But the HD 2600XT cards may also be AGP when they come out this month. So u may want to wait.

[DR.Death]

that would not handle the 2900 its not fast enough

[Paulieg]

If it's that old, and AGP I'd go with the 6600gt...then save to get a newer system.

[Kammster]

i just bought fable, but my graphics card doesn't work. whats a cheap graphics card for a dell dimension 8200 that will work

geforce 7600 gs... .uses less power than 6600gt, no expensive i used a 6200 for fable.

biostar does some wierd stuff
6800XE?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814141060

[Solaris17]

my 9800pro ran it at full settings no problem

[Agility]

my 9800pro ran it at full settings no problem

Same. Alil lag at times.

[Ripper3]

geforce 7600 gs... .uses less power than 6600gt, no expensive i used a 6200 for fable.

biostar does some wierd stuff
6800XE?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814141060

Specs suggest it's either a left over 6800LE core, or whatever 6800 had just 8/12 pps, with half the mem bandwidth, and abysmal speeds for core and memory
Still, better than on-board graphics, and nice price.

Go with anything above a GeForce 6x00 series card, or above a Radeon 9800, they're all fairly cheap now, and should handle Fable, letting you get enough spare cash for a new build, or another upgrade.