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My friend is insane. Please spec a card for him :D

Fledge

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Ok, at long NO SWEARING, READ THE FAQ last my friend and I have convinced another of our friends to go down the pc route rather than Xbox360.

Problem is...he seems to have technophobia. From what he's told us, he has some soft of Dual Core Intel processor and an amount of RAM with the most useless graphics card ever.

This is where you lovely people come in.
He's only willing to pay £80 (despite a 360 being nearly twice that) for the best possible graphics card there is. I don't need to point out any logical flaws there.

Anyway, what's THE BEST card you can get for that price? - Nvidia and ATI are both fine.
Oh and he wants to play Crysis with it - 19" monitor I thinks.

Thanks.
 
Fledge said:
Oh that's handy.
Any idea how high settings they will achieve on Crysis at a steady 30<fps?
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Jeeeezzshus your mate is tighter than me. :D

(well actually I'm not tight, I'm just am a keen bang per buck fan. What hurts more than having a faster machine is a machine that cost half as much to build)

As others have suggested the 4830 or second hand Nvidias are your best bet.
 
A few more specific details on his computer would be good before actually making a decision - what motherboard, exact CPU, amount and type/speed of ram?
 
The 8800GTX is EOL, so your only option is second hand from the 'bay tbh.

I vote for the HD4830 again - about as fast and much more modern - only needs one power connector and therefore won't bork a carpy PC.
 
Is it a Pentium D, then? But, yeah, that is pretty much the best possible graphics card for £80, new at least. Dunno how you're supposed to split £80 between a new CPU, some RAM, possibly a motherboard and a new, decent graphics card (when the only ones worth having start at about £50 themselves). It's just not going to happen, at least, not very well. Perhaps he should go the 360 route?
 
Like some other have said, second hand 8800gtx would be pretty good, just search around auction web sites or look on the members market... but think you need 250 posts to access it so actually ignore that!

I managed to get an 8800gts (a less powerful version of the gtx) for around £45 on the bay, a gtx should be able to be had for under £80.

But no matter what graphics card he gets, make sure he has a good quality power supply too, or it could not work at all!
 
I run a Pentium Dual-Core and a 4850 off a 380w Antec EArthwatts without trouble. However if he has a Pentium D then I'd suggest something beefier as the Core 2 Duo based Dual-Core Pentiums use less power than a Pentium D.
 
The power ratings can be quite deceptive, its more a case of what make is it. Some of the cheaper power supplies are very misleading with their ratings, might be a 300W psu but theyve rated it at 500w because it once output 500w for a fraction of a second etc.

Just make sure its a respected brand, Coolermaster, Corsair, BeQuiet etc, though these can also be quite expensive (about £50 cheapest for a good psu). But 500W rating on one should be plenty
 
He wants to play Crysis using a poor spec cpu. Hmmm. The saving grace might be that he's using a 19" and the 4830 packs a punch for the money. Good luck. :)
 
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