What new card? for my Budget system build £150

Spooter · 10 Aug 2007 at 11:57

Hi all,

Im am on a really small budget of £30-£45 for a new graphics card (PCI-Express). I manly play CSS and need a GPU for my new PC build. Im not worried about playing games in the highest settings just want to be able to play it at a average quality.

Built my new budget PC yesterday!!

**B Grade** Asus Vintage V3-M2V890 Barebones System - AMD Socket AM2 1 £29.99

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ 2.00GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail 1 £35.99

**B Grade** Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 160GB ST3160811AS SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM 1 £19.99

HP DVD 1035i 20x DVD±RW x12 Ram Dual Layer DVD-Writer (Black) - OEM 1 £13.99

GeIL 1GB (2x512MB) PC5300C4 667MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX21GB5300DC) 1 £19.99

Total inc Vat: £151.46

Installed XUbuntu on it and seems to run really well..

the shadow · 10 Aug 2007 at 12:04

Hi how about the BFG GeForce 7300

ajgoodfellow · 10 Aug 2007 at 12:08

Yep - get the 7300GT though like this one for £40: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-124-AS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=257

Spooter · 10 Aug 2007 at 12:10

Hi Thanks for your reply.

Which would perform better?

BFG GeForce 7300 GT OC 256MB DDR2 HDTV/DVI (PCI-Express)
£54.04

Asus ATI Radeon X1650 Silent 256MB DDR2 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
£49.34

Asus ATI Radeon X1550/TD 256MB HyperMemory TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
£35.24

Leadtek GeForce 8400 GS 256MB DDR2 HDTV/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
£35.24

OcUK GeForce 8500 GT 256MB DDR2 HDTV/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
£46.99

Im thinking about the

OcUK GeForce 8500 GT 256MB DDR2 HDTV/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
£46.99

What do you all think?

RavenUK · 10 Aug 2007 at 12:12

Cheap and cheerful and plenty of features for your cash.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-156-SP&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=939

Spooter · 10 Aug 2007 at 12:12

Yes the Asus GeForce EN7300GT-HTD Silent 256MB DDR2 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) looks good. Its looking like the 7300 going on opinions at the moment.

ajgoodfellow · 10 Aug 2007 at 12:15

The 7300GT is better than the HD2400

The 8500GT is well worth considering for the extra £6 though

EDIT: The X1650 is also a good card

Alexrose1uk · 10 Aug 2007 at 12:55

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-120-AS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=356

This 7600GS would be better than the 7300GT as they're DDR2 versions I believe, it was the DDR3 version that was the nippy one

Spooter · 10 Aug 2007 at 15:28

Anyone now what this card is like for a budget system?

Leadtek GeForce 8400 GS 256MB DDR2 HDTV/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail

Alexrose1uk · 11 Aug 2007 at 00:02

Pretty poo if I remember right

jigger · 11 Aug 2007 at 00:32

This x1650xt

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-136-SP&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=776

How did you miss it.

ajgoodfellow · 11 Aug 2007 at 11:05

Very nice card - the best suggested - but it's a little over budget

2Thumbs · 13 Aug 2007 at 12:25

jigger said:
This x1650xt

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-136-SP&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=776

How did you miss it.

If you're going to pay that much, you may aswell go another tenner and get an x1950Pro.

the shadow · 13 Aug 2007 at 20:02

yea the 1950 will last the longest.

no_1_dave · 13 Aug 2007 at 22:36

Spooter said:
Hi all,

Im am on a really small budget of £30-£45 for a new graphics card (PCI-Express). I manly play CSS and need a GPU for my new PC build. Im not worried about playing games in the highest settings just want to be able to play it at a average quality.

Built my new budget PC yesterday!!

**B Grade** Asus Vintage V3-M2V890 Barebones System - AMD Socket AM2 1 £29.99

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ 2.00GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail 1 £35.99

**B Grade** Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 160GB ST3160811AS SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM 1 £19.99

HP DVD 1035i 20x DVD±RW x12 Ram Dual Layer DVD-Writer (Black) - OEM 1 £13.99

GeIL 1GB (2x512MB) PC5300C4 667MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX21GB5300DC) 1 £19.99

Total inc Vat: £151.46

Installed XUbuntu on it and seems to run really well..

Fantastic budget system there mate!!
I'm looking to make a budget system for hooking up to my TV, mainly for HD stuff. This has definitely given me some inspiration. That 3800+ should clock to 2.6Ghz nicely

agnes · 13 Aug 2007 at 22:38

aye, cant argue as well with the slightly over budget part as you will see that most games (hl2, ut2k4, bf2... ect) will run almost flawlessly at max settings

ags

C64 · 14 Aug 2007 at 01:25

go for a second hand 7600 gt
they go for around £30-£40

Spooter · 14 Aug 2007 at 11:37

Hi Thanks very much,

I am very pleased with my budget system and it runs really fast with Xubuntu on it and already have HL2 and CSS running on there with Xine. Just need to get the GPU so I can play it. I did think about overclocking but at the moment I only have the Standard cooler and wasnt sure if I could overclock the system as I have Asus Vintage V3-M2V890 Barebones System so im not sure the advanced overclocking options will be available.

At the moment I think im going with one of these three.

Asus GeForce EN7300GT-HTD Silent 256MB DDR2 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail

£41.11

Asus GeForce EN7600GS Silent HTD 256MB DDR2 HDTV/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail

£46.99 inc VAT

OcUK GeForce 8500 GT 256MB DDR2 HDTV/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail

£46.99

Would you pick out of these? Im manly going for Nvidia as I read that the support for them on Linux is slightly better.

Thanks everyone for your advice...

ajgoodfellow · 14 Aug 2007 at 13:01

I'd go for the 7600GS out of those

nVidia would be a better choice for Linux IMO too

no_1_dave · 14 Aug 2007 at 18:47

Between the 7600GS and 8500 GT :confused: