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Need a cheap a chips GFX Card? £35
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Soldato
If you've got a reasonable power supply, your best bet is probably a second hand Radeon 2900 series card. They're fairly powerful, but they got quite a bad reputation for noise and heat output, if that's not a concern for you, given your price range, that's probably the sort of thing you're looking at. You might get lucky and find an 8800 GTS 320MB or even an 8800 GS if you hunt around.
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Look for an 8 series card, better one than the 8400/8500 if you can help it.
Soldato
2nd hand 2900xt, 8800 would be your best shot.
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9400gt?
i think they're about 30-40 quid
should be fine for watching HD content and playing a few of the older games (CS:S TF2 etc) depending on your monitor's res.
i think they're about 30-40 quid
should be fine for watching HD content and playing a few of the older games (CS:S TF2 etc) depending on your monitor's res.
If your talking gaming then stumping up the extra £5 for a 9500GT over a 9400 makes a lot of sense as it will boost performance considerably.
ATI doesn't appear to have anything that can compete with the 9500GT in the same price range - an extra £10 (£15 over your budget) will get you a 4650 which would be faster than the 9500GT by a moderate amount.
Other than that as above look for a second hand 8800 or 2900 card... I've seen some 8800GS going for that price before and they are still pretty decent cards.
ATI doesn't appear to have anything that can compete with the 9500GT in the same price range - an extra £10 (£15 over your budget) will get you a 4650 which would be faster than the 9500GT by a moderate amount.
Other than that as above look for a second hand 8800 or 2900 card... I've seen some 8800GS going for that price before and they are still pretty decent cards.