graphics card help

perpy · 13 Dec 2009 at 19:56

hey just wondering if dual "Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4650 1024MB DDR2 PCI-Express Graphics Cards" would be enough to run most/all games on full specs and if not what would you guys suggest, thanks
perpy

siumatfung · 13 Dec 2009 at 20:01

what resolution?

RJC · 13 Dec 2009 at 20:03

What's your max budget, Have a look at the ATI 4850.

J.B · 13 Dec 2009 at 20:04

What kind of money were you looking at spending on a new card?

perpy · 13 Dec 2009 at 20:05

1280 by 960 i think, not 100% sure on that tho

xirokx · 13 Dec 2009 at 20:06

perpy, when deciding on which gpu to get, the next question is always generally what resolution do I game at as the higher the resolution the more powerful gpu required...

then you should consider the gpu memory and the system memory once again the more the better

If you game at 1280x1024 then you will be OK with that card as it has a lot of gpu memory i.e 1g so will eat through games..

perpy · 13 Dec 2009 at 20:07

well im looking at around 900 for the whole load, so monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers and obv the base unit itself and ive found a good deal but im not sure about how good the gpu would be

perpy · 13 Dec 2009 at 20:20

and from what ive seen building your own may not save you that much money and seeing as i have never had experiance in building my own, i wouldnt want to take the risk

Nemeses · 13 Dec 2009 at 21:27

Building save quite a bit of money, and systems are pretty easy to build today.

TheTard · 14 Dec 2009 at 01:23

If you have 900 to play with you can still get a prety good single card, try a 4870/5770you should be able to fit that in your budget. also, you only dont save money when you build a computer for just casual use, ie. web browsing, word documenting etc. For PCs above 400ish you will get so much more than a shop bought one. Building a computer is easy really, kinda like lego, everything just pushes together.