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[Dharok]

So far I've decided on the following:

Gigabyte GA_P35_DS3R (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-5300C3 667MHz Dual Channel Kit

Which leaves me with £50 to spend on a GFX card, what to do?

 

[Rroff]

£50 ain't gonna go far if you want a card for gaming...

Otherwise the 8500GT makes for an excellent media gpu and theres a few 7600 series cards that can be had for around that which wouldn't be totally terrible for gaming.

 

[Dharok]

£50 ain't gonna go far if you want a card for gaming...

Otherwise the 8500GT makes for an excellent media gpu and theres a few 7600 series cards that can be had for around that which wouldn't be totally terrible for gaming.

Well you know I got the following.

E6300 Core 2 Duo, Stock cooling
ASRock Dual-VSTA
1gb Unbranded Memory
250gb HDD 16mb cache
XFX 6800xt AGP -

What do I spend £200 on?

 

[Dharok]

Well you know I got the following.

E6300 Core 2 Duo, Stock cooling
ASRock Dual-VSTA
1gb Unbranded Memory
250gb HDD 16mb cache
XFX 6800xt AGP -

What do I spend £200 on?

Also I'm just using it for a few game titles probably like Stalker, Fear, TDU things like this. So I want to run them games at 1440x900 aswell.

 

[J1234]

I would remove that sweary if I was you.

 

[Wiggins]

So far I've decided on the following:

Gigabyte GA_P35_DS3R (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-5300C3 667MHz Dual Channel Kit

Which leaves me with £50 to spend on a GFX card, what to do?

Have a gander at these

You wont get off the planet frame rates although I did have one of these and ran Rainbow Six: Las Vegas on high settings. Probably due to clocking it within an inch of its life but hey, it will play the latest on low/mid settings and probably no more than 1280x1024 to be honest.

 

[Dharok]

Thanks for the advise, think I shall take that onboard and do as you said. Hopefully I can still run a few games and I should see a good improvement from my old XFX AGP 6800xt