New graphic card needed, what to buy?

Re: Re: Decent graphics card for under £100???

How much are u willing to spend?
And do you know if your motherboard supports agp or pci-e cards?

It'll tell u in your manual..

If you want to spend under £100, 6600gt is probably the best acrd you'll get.

heres the items i used to build my pc , hope it helps...i have an AGP card already




1 x AMD (Newcastle) Athlon 64bit 3000+ 512kb L2 Cache 754pin Retail Boxed Processor with Heatsink and Fan Included and 3 Year Warranty 58431 Invoiced £81.24 £81.24

1 x Asus K8V-X Socket-754 VIA K8T800 ATX- Sound Gb-Lan USB2 800FSB SATA-Raid Retail Box 74707 Invoiced £42.64 £42.64

1 x Kingston 512MB DDR PC3200 400MHz CL3 Memory Module 49294 Invoiced £43.21 £43.21

1 x Maxtor 6Y080L0 Plus 9 80GB 7200RPM ATA/133 2MB Cache - OEM 40968 Invoiced £29.47 £29.47

1 x Ebuyer Extra Value AC Power Lead (Kettle Type) Suitable for ATX PSU 20293 Invoiced £0.99 £0.99

1 x Raidmax Cobra 822 WS ATX Gaming Case in Silver With 400w Psu 60384 Invoiced £22.99 £22.99

1 x Logitech OEM Value Keyboard Beige PS2 59175 Invoiced £4.51 £4.51

1 x Logitech OEM S96 Optical Wheel Mouse Black PS2 77244 Invoiced £5.95 £5.95

2 x APC 0.5M IDE Ribbon Cable 17926 Invoiced £2.59 £5.18

1 x Sony OEM 3.5 Floppy Drive 23925 Invoiced £3.28 £3.28

1 x Ebuyer Extra Value 60mm Internal Case Fan In Black 63282 Invoiced £0.45 £0.45

2 x Ebuyer IDE Cable UDMA Ultra 100/66 70 cm Long 32461 Invoiced £0.99 £1.98

1 x Ebuyer Extra Value Ide & Floppy Cable Pack 80519 Invoiced £0.69 £0.69

How much you want to spend?

no more than £70 i hope (and less if possible) , all i want to do is have a semi up to date card and to be able to play that FEAR game at a decent speed

I have a top end gfx card and I can only play it at just above average- 1280 x 1024 with some AA & AF so I think you might need more than a £70 card

I dunno what the minimum spec required is for this but

A radeon 9800 Pro is probably your best best for that sort of money- is one hell of a card for that price

Can get one new on ebay around £70

I can get u a leadtek 6800gt for £135..

U'll have to be quick though.. Plus I'd need to either meet u or get a bank transfer to fund the purchase

This is a serious offer by the way.

cheers but no way am i spending nearly a months rent on a graphics card




http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/st...&sm=null&tm=null&sku=200528&category_oid=null


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Nope..

Go for a 6600GT if you don't get a 6800GT.

Have a look here

FEAR is an immensly demanding game..

still too much



http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/st...&sm=null&tm=null&sku=385873&category_oid=null

?

Nope.. if its too much at the mo then save it and add some more next month.

You'll not regret it.
Seriously..

Plus the longer you wait and the more money you save the better the bargain you will get..

http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2005/08/08/fear_benchmarks/2.html

6600GT is the minimum you should use according to this

Agreed.. this game is immensly demanding of your machine.
I have a 2800+ @2.3ghz, 1GB DDR400 @ 420 and a 6800GT clocked at 410/1200..

and I still don't get that good a frame rate.

However your running a better cpu..
If you run at 1024x768 with a little aa and 16xaf then it'll look lush on a 6600gt.. especially since (i think) FEAR has sm3 optimisation..

hey man hew man what you tryin to do man!

all i've seen there is the link to pc world which was, the last time i checked, a shitty place to buy pc parts from. I'm not sure if they've changed their ways but it used to be overly priced for people who no better.

that was meant to be an 'edit' but it wasn't. oops.

I'm going to try FEAR to beast my machine, and if it can't run it i'm going to cry

I havea 7800GT and it runs FEAR on 1280 x 1024 with low aa & Af

Yeah sorry that was a gay comment for me to post as it only allows 1280 x 960..

I'm actually running it at 1600x1200 with a few of the details turned down and only 2xaa and 8xaf.

Was gettin confused with Q4 (which incidently is a far superior game!)