Half Life 2

[Joose]

For those of you who dont have steam, I had this announcement waiting for me when i woke up today. From the horses mouth, as it were:

"HALF LIFE 2 HAS GONE GOLD!"

hooray!

[mrbobbins]

So November 16th hey!!, now all I have to worry about is my graphics card, and should I purchase online or in a shop?, and which version do I get?...

[Woo Elephant Yeah]

Online.

How much do you want to spend, and what system have you got?

[mrbobbins]

Well I'm pretty sure it'll run, it's just i want it to be GOOOOD!!,

P4 2.8
1gb ram
Matrox Parhelia 256mb GFX card

And I want to spend as little as possible!!... but still get CS:S and HL1:S

[Joose]

if you buy the hyper-spangly version of HL2, the only extras you seem to get are postcards. And a hat.

Your paying an extra $30 (which is what, ?15?) for postcards from a fictional city, a hat that'll make you look bumgay, a strata-faaabulous guide (have you ever had a look at those things?) and probably a one in a million chance to go look at some geeks cubicles.

Personally, i would go for the silver package

/has gone for the lowest costing package due to funding problems

[Woo Elephant Yeah]

Get one of these

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Galaxy Glacier GeForce 6800 128MB DDR TV-Out/DVI (AGP) - Retail (GX-000-GL) 
The groundbreaking new NVIDIA(r) GeForce(tm) 6800 graphics processing units (GPUs) and their revolutionary technologies power worlds where reality and fantasy meet; worlds in which new standards are set for visual realism and quality, performance, and video functionality. The GeForce 6800 GPUs deliver powerful, elegant graphics to drench your senses, immersing you in unparalleled worlds of visual effects for the ultimate PC experience. 

- 350MHz Core Engine Clock speed
- 128MB 700MHz (2.2ns) high speed DDR memory
- Superscalar 12-Pipe GPU Architecture
- CineFX 3.0 Engine
- The Industry's First On-Chip Video Processor
- UltraShadow II Technology
- 64-Bit Texture Filtering and Blending
- Intellisample 3.0 Technology
- Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
- nView Multi-Display Technology
- Digital Vibrance Control 3.0
- High-Speed DDR Memory Interface
- 256-Bit Memory Interface with Advanced Memory Control
- 128-Bit Studio-Precision Computation
- Full-Speed 32-Bit Color Precision
- Advanced Adaptive De-Interlacing
- Video Scaling and Filtering
- TV-Out
- Dual 400MHz RAMDACs
- 0.13 Micron Process Technology
- Arctic Cooling Rev4 VGA Silencer pre-fitted for improved cooling performance and lower noise levels.

?216 from http://www.overclockers.co.uk and the price banding is really good.

I have one of these, and it canes everything I throw at it so far.
The only thing I can't have on Ultra High is Far Cry, but Doom 3 it annihilates.

Give us an idea of how much you want to spend though, otherwise I'm shooting in the dark.