Cheapest Video Card for BC2 Vietnam

[Cain]

I'm helping a friend get into BC2....

She has a Quad core AMD, with a crappy video card.

What is the cheapest video card to help her get good framerates, etc.??

[Duke{CLR}]

It still plays decent on my laptop that has 9800m and a core 2 duo but that is with the graphics turned way down. I'm not too sure about the different AMD CPUS and what their performance is like so I'm not sure what to pair it with.

Is there a budget number?

[Cain]

Recommended System Requirements
OS: Windows Vista/7
Processor: Any Quadcore Processor
Memory: 2 GB
Hard Drive: 15 GB for Digital Version, 10 GB for Disc Version
Video Memory: 512 MB (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260)
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
DirectX: 10
Keyboard and Mouse
DVD Rom Drive

[Cain]

Probably as low a budget as possible.

Money pretty tight for these folks.

[Ghost_Rain]

Probably as low a budget as possible.

Money pretty tight for these folks.

An Ati 5850 or somewhere a long those line.

[Duke{CLR}]

An Ati 5850 or somewhere a long those line.

I read the same advice on another forum and they seem to run in the 200 range.

Newegg.com - Computer Hardware,Video Cards Video Devices,Desktop Graphics / Video Cards,Radeon HD 5000 series,Radeon HD 5850

[baconoclock]

I just picked up a gtx 460 and it seems pretty solid. think its only around 170 or so.

[Duke{CLR}]

Here is a card for $139.00 after a MIR.

Newegg.com - EVGA 01G-P3-1366-TR GeForce GTX 460 SE 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

[Cain]

I might just buy a new card, and give her my old one...

How about this one?

Newegg.com - EVGA 012-P3-1472-AR GeForce GTX 470 SuperClocked 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

[Duke{CLR}]

I might just buy a new card, and give her my old one...

How about this one?

Newegg.com - EVGA 012-P3-1472-AR GeForce GTX 470 SuperClocked 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

That should do just fine, I'm running a pair of those in my rig and with everything maxed out at a res of 2048 x 1152 I have triple digit FPS most of the time and it rarely drops below 80.

[Cain]

Duke, if you run the res that high, aren't the players very tiny running around the screen?

[Duke{CLR}]

Duke, if you run the res that high, aren't the players very tiny running around the screen?

Maybe but to me if I play at a lower resolution I feel like I'm in a small world, it's also the native resolution of my monitor which is supposed to look better.