• Competitor rules

    Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.

Best upgrade for £100ish?

Helium_Junkie

Helium_Junkie

Helium_Junkie

Soldato
Joined
26 Nov 2003
Posts
6,674
Location
East Sussex
Please could anyone suggest a good upgrade for this, around or less than £100 with VAT.

Greatly appreciated, I want to be able to record ingame video without halving my FPS :)

Current card: OcUK ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT SILENT Heatpipe 512MB GDDR3 VIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail

Other spec:
Intel Core 2 Duo E4400 "LGA775 Allendale" 2.00GHz (800FSB) - Retail (at 2.6)
4G Crucial Ballistix DDR2 PC2-5300C3 667MHz
Asus P5W DH Deluxe WiFi (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
OCZ GameXStream 600w Silent SLI Ready ATX2 Power Supply
 
And would you expect it to make a decent difference to my system? :) Thanks for the advice so far.

Also, could someone confirm compatibility please? for example, bus: PCI-E 2.0. I dont know if my asus mobo is v2.0? How can I check, or am I being simple :)

Thanks
 
Last edited:
The GTS250 and Radeon 4850 are so similar in performance, you'd be best off judging on subjective grounds tbh. Personally I'd go for the GTS250 as I prefer Nvidia cards :) But either would be a very good choice.

Either will also work fine in your motherboard - whilst they state PCI-E 2.0 and your motherboard is PCI-E 1.0, there will be no compatibility issues.
 
Theres a good chance I have now placed this order :p

Thanks very much for all your help :) So long as the bank doesn't shaft me again like they did my last order (blocked the "suspicious" purchase 3 times... :rolleyes:) it should be with me next week :)

Super!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom