boredtodeath
09-05-2009, 12:59 AM
I have some old games that run best on an old system, thanks to nvidia not caring about old games and breaking stuff here and there to make new games work properly, I am eventually going to just bite the bullet and build an old system again to run old games on.
I used to have this system:
ASUS P4C800E mobo with 875 chipset
kingston hyperX ddr memory
Albatron geforce FX5700EP agp video card
Sound blaster audigy 2 sound card pci
This old rig worked great for all the games I had on it which were:
Tachyon the Fringe
Mechwarrior 4 vengance/black knight/mercs
Starlancer
X2 the Threat
Mech Commander 2
The problem with my current rig is that with these older games I get some problems like the game crashes with some errors that don't usually occur, graphics anomalies that will never be fixed like crosshatch looking stuff in shadows or on anything especially with X2 the Threat and some games like mechwarrior games won't install properly the first time. I have to reinstall the game several times before it will play right.
So this is gonna be a legacy rig lol but I wish I had kept that old rig because now I can't find the video card anymore. Oh I can find the mobo here and there but the video card is just gone from existence. Tried feebay and pricewatch... google too but it's not around right now. Even amazon doesn't have it.
Does anyone have a lead on either the same albatron fx5700EP or even better a FX5900 series card? Also why does the quadro series cards still use the FX part in their model numbers?
I used to have this system:
ASUS P4C800E mobo with 875 chipset
kingston hyperX ddr memory
Albatron geforce FX5700EP agp video card
Sound blaster audigy 2 sound card pci
This old rig worked great for all the games I had on it which were:
Tachyon the Fringe
Mechwarrior 4 vengance/black knight/mercs
Starlancer
X2 the Threat
Mech Commander 2
The problem with my current rig is that with these older games I get some problems like the game crashes with some errors that don't usually occur, graphics anomalies that will never be fixed like crosshatch looking stuff in shadows or on anything especially with X2 the Threat and some games like mechwarrior games won't install properly the first time. I have to reinstall the game several times before it will play right.
So this is gonna be a legacy rig lol but I wish I had kept that old rig because now I can't find the video card anymore. Oh I can find the mobo here and there but the video card is just gone from existence. Tried feebay and pricewatch... google too but it's not around right now. Even amazon doesn't have it.
Does anyone have a lead on either the same albatron fx5700EP or even better a FX5900 series card? Also why does the quadro series cards still use the FX part in their model numbers?