Graphics card for £60-80

[gee3000]

Any recommendations? For general use, light gaming, mainly graphic design work.

Could get a cheaper card but the person I'm building for is willing to spend more than necessary.

 

[Marine-RX179]

If you are sure that's the budget...

HD4770 512MB/9800GT 512MB (around £75)
HD4850 512MB/GTS250 512MB (around £85)

Or try to look for a 2nd hand 8800GTX 768MB (around £40-£60 may be?)

 

[sjcf1]

HD4770 512MB/9800GT 512MB (around £75)

+1

If you could stretch to £100. You could bag yourself a 4870. Otherwise the 4770 is probably the best card.

 

[PermaBanned]

Offers keep cropping up - just keep an eye out. I've seen the GTS 250 for around £50 twice this year.

 

[Minstadave]

5750?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-155-XF&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=708

Looks pretty good value. I'd also consider a 1GB 4850 in that price region too.

 

[Mangochutney]

I bought a 4870 vapor-x for my son, great card and was only £100 from OCUK.
Maybe they might get them back in?

 

[JTrickle]

mainly graphic design work.

With the dire performance ATI cards have been showing in 2D rendering speeds recently, I would say Nvidia. Even if ATI are a bit better on bang per 3D buck at the mo.

 

[gee3000]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-113-OK

Leaning towards Nvidia - this one seem good? Only 1 left. The SKU reveals it's a gainward..

or http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-226-SP&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=

 

[Marine-RX179]

Forget the 5570...it's not even a full fudge gaming card...it's a typical "half-baked" card that falls between gaming and media graphic card which not really capable of gaming at a smooth rate.

 

[gee3000]

As I mentioned the system will primarily be for general use and graphics work, rarely for gaming. Future proofing is of more importance I think and that card supports DX11.

 

[Marine-RX179]

Do you know if DirectX 11 is...or going to feature anything that's gonna enhance your graphic applications? Cause in terms of gaming, the DirectX 11 is meaningless on 5570, as it would be too slow to run games in DirectX 11 mode.

 

[reflux]

Graphic design work can be done on Voodoo 2 practicaly....Photoshop and a few other CS4 programs use OpenGL GPU acceleration but it's no big thing.

 

[terley]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56GXmPaHe88

9800gt is better than 4770

 

[terley]

Graphic design work can be done on Voodoo 2 practicaly....Photoshop and a few other CS4 programs use OpenGL GPU acceleration but it's no big thing.

my brother is a professional graphic designer and he would highly disagree with you.. no graphic designer uses photoshop, they use image ready, and you need a decent graphics card trust me.. especially using vector for HUGE images for billboards etc

 

[gee3000]

Meh, didn't think this would be so confusing lol.

• XFX ATI Radeon HD 4770 512MB GDDR5 PCI-Express - £75.99
• Point Of View GeForce 9800 GT Green Edition 512MB GDDR3 PCI-Express - £76.99
• Gainward GeForce 9800 GT Green Edition 512MB GDDR3 PCI-Express - £64.99 -- darn thing is on pre-order