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I've been trying to think about what 3d card I'm going to want to get before this game comes out. I've tried to wade through reviews and the like, but I can't make heads or tails of the weird version numbers of cards and all the different things out there. I've even tried to figure out these questions using cnet's system, but it's not reall yal that helpful.
So, here are my tech questions for any experienced gamers that probably have some of the relevant cards, and know their relative strengths and weaknesses.
1) What's the OPTIMAL set of cards currently available for HL2?
2) What are the best cards under 200$ ?
3) What are the best cards under 100$ ?
4) What are the absolute MUST HAVE features of cards: I hear a lot about athroscopic filtering or something like that. Do they all have built-in bump mapping now?
5) How much memory should the cards have/ bit-rate/ clockspeed?
And don't just give me goofy, off the top of the head "I'm so lEEt" answers like "aw, you just gotta have fifty gazillion migs of RAM with a 20GigHz clock." This is about real people on a real budget, trying to figure out what the best bang for the buck is.
So, here are my tech questions for any experienced gamers that probably have some of the relevant cards, and know their relative strengths and weaknesses.
1) What's the OPTIMAL set of cards currently available for HL2?
2) What are the best cards under 200$ ?
3) What are the best cards under 100$ ?
4) What are the absolute MUST HAVE features of cards: I hear a lot about athroscopic filtering or something like that. Do they all have built-in bump mapping now?
5) How much memory should the cards have/ bit-rate/ clockspeed?
And don't just give me goofy, off the top of the head "I'm so lEEt" answers like "aw, you just gotta have fifty gazillion migs of RAM with a 20GigHz clock." This is about real people on a real budget, trying to figure out what the best bang for the buck is.