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What card please?

longshanks

longshanks

longshanks

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Hi

I am after a PCI-e Card. I currently have onboard graphics. My spec is:

AMD AM2 X2 5200 CPU
4g DDR2 Ram
120g Sata HD
Gigabyte Matx Board with ATI chipset

My requirements are:

Budget of around £80
ATI or Nvidia ok
DX10
Passively cooled Graphics card if possible
Able to play 99% of games out there or new ones coming out soon

Be great if you can point me in the right direction please. My budget is limited i know but that is all i can afford, ish.

Thanks in advance people.
 
You will need at least 170 if you want DX10 compatible card and still be able to game well. Unless you don't mind going for the 8600/2600 cards.
 
You will really be hard-pushed to find a decent DX10 card that can run current games that well.

I can only think of the 8800GT, but the performance benchmarks I have seen from the card is pretty poor.

If you don't mind running games on Medium etc, it should be fine though.
 
wait a week or two scrape together an extra £20-£30 if ya can and buy a second hand gts for around £110 as they should hit around there with the 256mb gt's being around the £145 mark

mrk said:
I can sell you a 320MB GTS for £150 :)
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just seen this shouldnt this sort of activity be reserved for the MM?
 
I've got a Gigabyte Silent HD2600 Pro 512mb (cost about £50), it's not a bad card for games up to Half Life Episode 2 type graphics on high at 1920x1200 but after that you have to start turning settings down, I have to run the Crysis Demo on low settings at 1680x1050 and that's in DX9 mode, no idea how DX10 would perform. I can also play UT3 with low-medium settings in DX9 at 1680x1050.
 
damian666 said:
wait a week or two scrape together an extra £20-£30 if ya can and buy a second hand gts for around £110 as they should hit around there with the 256mb gt's being around the £145 mark



just seen this shouldnt this sort of activity be reserved for the MM?
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Yes but it was a joke, nobody on this forum is going to buy a GTS for 150 now, stay with current affairs dude!
 
Chancers are every were so i wouldnt put it past someone for trying and im very aware how much a gts is worth as i concider myself lucky to have scraped £150 for mine so close to gt launch.
I appolagise for not realising it was a joke but thought it best just to mention it as someone else no doubt would be along to.
 
Realillusion222 said:
I can only think of the 8800GT, but the performance benchmarks I have seen from the card is pretty poor.
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I don't know if I've read that wrong, but are you saying the 8800GT has been giving poor benchies? Where you been looking?:confused:

To longshanks, I'm afraid you're not gonna get a card that plays 99% of games plus new ones on your budget. I know that sounds harsh but that's the way it is I'm afraid. You want at least around 8800GTS 320MB for such a task, and even that is crippled by some of the new games.
Try save up a bit more mate - well worth waiting extra month or two to generate extra £50 or so.
 
Ah I see, you'd have a hard time selling it on any tech forum any way which is why we all sold them on the bay where people are none the wiser!
 
Realillusion222 said:
You will really be hard-pushed to find a decent DX10 card that can run current games that well.

I can only think of the 8800GT, but the performance benchmarks I have seen from the card is pretty poor.

If you don't mind running games on Medium etc, it should be fine though.
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Do you mean 8600GT m8, you can pick up an 8600GT for under a hundred quid as long as you dont play above 1280 res they are not too bad.
 
Well, i am currently playing the Crysis Demo with my on-board graphics and is very much 'playable'. I am not after a card that can play games at the top settings. Maybe one that can play at the medium settings would do fine.

I have lost track of the Graphics card area since selling my 7600 GS. I have never spent a lot on a graphics card and don't like the idea of forking out over £100 for one. This is why i would be happy to buy a card that can play games at medium settings.

Are the ATI Radeon 2600 256MB DDR2 series card any good?
 
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My advice would be to buy second hand. With the 8800GT now out and the new radeon a couple of weeks away there will be plenty of people upgrading to play games like crysis and COD4. Bargains aplenty! ;)
 
Maybe a hd2900pro or 8800gts 320. The pro would be the better choice i think as has more memory and clocks well past an xt also. Not sure how low the prices will go but for dx10 gaming i think these cards are the minimum spec you should be looking for. You may want to also wait till mid novemember as i got a feeling that ati's new cards are going to come in at pretty low prices.
 
Does it really have to be DX10? Couldn't you just get an x1950pro like everybody else? :p

They're well within your budget and faster than any similarly priced DX10 card. Of course you could go the second hand route and try to pick up a 320mb 8800gts or 512mb 2900pro but they're still going for well over £100 on eBay (currently one at £97 with 13 hours left).
 
no chance you will get dx10 and capable of playing the lastest games for under 140 unless you go second hand. otherwise ditch the idea of dx10 and get a x1950 xtx or pro or 2600 :)
 
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