Video Cards

Iam in the process of getting a new PC. What would be a better video card? Integrated Intel Extreme Graphics 2 or 8mb / 3D with Direct X 7.
0 What I need it for is to play Flight Simulator 2004 on it . I do not play over the internet, The PC Iam looking to purchase also has an Intel Pentium Proceesor w/HT Technology (3GHz, 800 FSB) The game reguires at least 450MHz, but a freind of mine said to get more because it would still lag with 450MHz. Is he right?

Thanks!

 

Thanks PeteC!
My next ouestion is how many MB's is the Integrated Intel Extreme Graphics 2 card? Will it do a good job for FS 2004?

Thanks!

 

Hi,
The specifications:
http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/eg2/

It is integrated graphics which means it is part of the motherboard. The memory is 96MB which is "shared" from the system memory (if the system has, say, 512MB of RAM, 96MB will be allocated to the graphics, leaving 416MB of RAM for the system to use).

Edit: Sorry if that is technical. Yes, it should run FS2004 easily.
How much system memory (RAM) does the computer have?

Matt

 

Thanks Matt!

The PC Iam looking at will have 512 MB Dual Channel DDR SDRAM at 400 MHz.

Thanks Again!
John

 

No problem.
That is a reasonable amount of system RAM. I would be concerned if it was any lower, since almost 100MB would be utilized for the graphics. FS2004 should run easily. The thing I find with Microsoft games is installation problems. When I see that it is a M$ game, I can almost guarantee installation dramas.

Sounds like the system should go well.

Matt