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Bizzy-
March 17th, 2006, 10:30 AM
That a good Video card?

Reason I ask is i'm doing research on buying a montherboard and the one im looking at (Biostar GeForce 6100-M7 Socket754/PCI-E 16x/SATA2/A&V&L/M-ATX Motherboard) says it comes with a nVidia GeForce 6100 GPU card already on it. Is that a good one or go better? I am currently in the process of building a gaming PC. Thanks
Bizzy-
March 17th, 2006, 10:48 AM
It's not really a powerful GPU, but it can still play HL2 using conservative settings (800x600, cut down on details). It can hold its own until you get something better.
What would be the best bang for your buck? I mean I want a decently good gaming system, but I don't want to go overboard on the money issue. Would it be better to get the stuff as a kit or buy things seperatly?

Will HL2 play on 64bit?
thrash_head
March 17th, 2006, 02:13 PM
6600gt is getting pretty cheap and the x800 is pretty cheap as well, although i always have problems installing ATI so i'd suggest the 6600gt
ihaveaname
March 17th, 2006, 04:16 PM
What would be the best bang for your buck? I mean I want a decently good gaming system, but I don't want to go overboard on the money issue. Would it be better to get the stuff as a kit or buy things seperatly?

Will HL2 play on 64bit?

I think one of the semi-recent updates from steam said HL2 was 64bit compatible. I thought i read though that it doesn't have any better performance other than loading levels faster or something??? someone confirm this, lol
jabroni
March 17th, 2006, 06:51 PM
it plays on a 64bit system fine but if you have reg winxp home/pro it will just be in 32bit (which is just fine btw). you need xp 64 or whatever for hl2 to run in 64bit mode. as for the performance diff: http://www.techgage.com/review.php?id=3889

theres a lot more reviews if you search.
Janus
March 23rd, 2006, 01:33 PM
I see that you are getting a Socket 754 motherboard as well, which for the price differences vs performance between that and Socket 939 it is worth it to spend the few extra dollars on Socker939 (as it is not outdated as 754 currently is). If you have the money at all I would not spend the money on it. Now that I saw the specs M-ATX, are you building a small form factor PC?