help needed!noob is going to buy a new video card

[David198502]

thx kendo and the others.
your suggestion to be patient and wait, is certainly a clever one, but my rig is far from high end and is aging with every day.
i have the feeling, that if i wait another few months, it will not be worth to upgrade anymore but to buy a completely new pc.
furthermore we have no clue if the next patch comes out in a week or a year so i stopped to be eager about it.
i would just like to to play the game with high video settings and the natural resolution of my old monitor of 1280x1024.
now i have to turn the graphics that much down, that it really looks worse than 1946 in most aspects except the cockpits.

[kendo65]

I think your PC can be ok for a bit yet - your cpu is still solid enough
(see link: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...ck,3106-5.html ) - the turbo-boost feature can I think take one core up to 3.6 GHz [and there's always overclocking further down the road], 4GB ram is fine. Try it with a new graphics card first. You can always transfer the card to a new updated PC later if it still doesn't cut it, but at your resolution a lot of cards should be ok.

I do think (! ) that the patch will be with us in weeks. Personally I've been thinking of upgrading my own videocard for a while as mine doesn't cut it well with COD either. I've put it off for the last 6 months because I spent a silly amount of money on a new hi-fi, then news of the new cards from ATI and nVidia led me to wait that bit longer.