good graphics card?

[Mark J]

looking to buy myself a new graphics card for my PC this weekend, probably a 256MB one, dont really want to spend more than £150

currently got a 32MB one (dont laugh) and its the only part of my computer thats actually an original part!

any recommendations? would need to be AGP too (i think!)

 

[Darren S]

Your AGP bus is going to be a limiting factor there, m8. You can get some of the X800 (and X850 iirc?) cards in AGP form, but they will be thin on the ground. A good all-rounder that will be cheap these days is the older ATi 9800 Pro. It's not cutting edge by a long shot, and despite only having 128MB (there is a 256MB version too but less common) it can run most things well. I play Battlefield 2 on mine and it works fine. I have to switch some of the extreme eye-candy off, or reduce it to Low, but the end result is decent enough.

Alternatively, if your motherboard is PCI-e equipped, you could always opt for the new nVidia 7950X2 card. Comes with 1GB onboard and will set you back circa £400.

D.

 

[martynh]

Plenty of fast cards out there for 6800GS and 7800 AGP cards out there:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Nvidia_AGP_Graphics_Cards.html

 

[Mark J]

cheers for the advice guys, i dont think ive got PCI-e so thats my downfall really

im not after a top end one, just something thats going to be in line with the rest of my PC, not some 32MB, 6 year old card!

cheers

 

[martynh]

You can get 6800GS cards for about £150ish, deffo good enough to run BF2 and the like.

 

[Mark J]

yeah, the 6800GS is actually the one i will prbably go for anyway, or possibly the X800/X850 as Darren said earlier. ill let you know the outcome

 

[The Hoff]

PM'd

 

[David]

you can get my card for around that now XFX 6800 GT easily clockable too

 

[Mark J]

in the end i went for a nvidia 6600, which for my spec computer is fine, my last card was probably made somewhere around 1950, so its a big improvement.

had a look in dixons / currys and it was £125.....looked in another shop, and it was £81.50! Bargain

cheers for everyones help though.

 

[Mark5290]

I got a ATI 9800 PRO Tis a good card.

 

[mas]

9800XT myself

 

[Anth1234]

I'm getting a 7950 GX2 1024MB :>

 

[Jays172]

make sure it's the 6600gt or even better the 6800!! Both here

 

[Jays172]

missed you only had agp slots 6800 here

 

[Griff]

Bit late.. He's already got a new card.. Read above.

 

[Jays172]

b****cks

note to self, read all posts not just skim read..