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NoobieOCer

NoobieOCer

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hi i was helping a friend build a computer and his budget is very low and all he does is work and his daughter plays some online flash games and stuff. i was wondering what graphics card should i get for him with a budget of £50. also any other recommendations?
 
The best card in that area is the X1950 Pro but that's a bit over budget. Since there'll be no 3D work then most any card would so. How about a passive 256 MiB HD 2400 Pro?
 
I have some experience with very low budgets builds.

Keep as much "on-board" as possible. Not sure of OCUK do such lowly boards. Try to steer away from VIA chipsets, I'll explain later. Keep things simple, deliberately low tech. For office work PC's became powerful enough years ago! We only need power for gaming and to run bloated OS's and overblown office packages that have features 90% will never use more than 10% of the time.

The real way of budget home office PC building is to dump Microsoft.
Have a look at this to give you an idea of how low you can go...

Asus Eee PC 701-BL Intel Mobile 900MHz Notebook

Have a look at ubuntu.com for the worlds most popular Linux distro. It's the easiest without crippling the power user. That's down to the level of support. Not the best for gaming, but will do everything that you have mentioned in your post.

Oh yea the VIA thing... Linux dosn't like Chrome 3D but then VIA graphics don't have many fans LOL Intel, ATI and nVidia are all well supported.
 
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pENdr4gON said:
Keep as much "on-board" as possible. Not sure of OCUK do such lowly boards.
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Pendragon is perfectly correct in his statement - for office work (word, excel, email & accounts program) I have an old AMD 1.1Ghz, 256MB RAM. Nothing else. OS is XP Pro. Runs fast like heck. ONLY because it's got nothing else on it.

When one says on-board it's like chips enbedded in the motherboard. Ie the intel xxx, nvidia 61xx...
It's a motherboard you'd be buying. The graphics would be an onboard integrated chip.

Online flash games are no problem, there's no need to purchase anything because they'd play perfectly on onboard or the low-liest graphic card available. The large majority anyway.
 
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