New Vidcard, yey!

[Mood] :D (Now to find time to play games...)



I purchased a new vidcard yesterday for my dual core desktop. I had limited budget, so I dedided to just buy a Powercolor ATI X550. It's a 256MB GDDR (128bit) vidcard clocked at 400Mhz. I installed it in the afternoon, and tried playing a few games. pretty decent actually. Now I just have to test it out on real 3D games. Maybe I'll reinstall HL2 and set all the settings on high and see how it fairs. I'm not really a specialist on videocards, so my rating would probably just be based on the texture quality and the speed. But so far, I'm liking it, and it's actually very affordable. Now all I need is to find time for gaming.




Though Chain: Prior to this my vidcard was a 128MB GFX 5500 on my previous single core P4. I played HL2 and finished it with just the mid settings coz the framerate drops to almost 4fps when I use the highest settings. Now it's time to see if this baby will make daddy poud. hehehe.