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    Best graphics card under £100

    Hey all

    Basically I am planning to update soonish, but I can't afford to do it all in one go at the moment. Since I think my 7900gt is damaged as it artficats like mad, I was thinking of doing this first.

    I saw (512MB Palit HD4850 on Scan - I can't use URL's yet >.<] and it seems pretty good to me. Does anyone have anything better they can reccommend?

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    Re: Best graphics card under £100

    The only thing to be aware of is that the Palit cards fan may be set to 100&#37; all the time which will make it the noisiest thing in the world!

    Save up an extra few pennies and go for one of the other cards that are available for &#163;105-115

    http://www.pixmania.co.uk/uk/uk/1483...dual-slot.html &#163;110 including delivery

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    Re: Best graphics card under £100

    Or go the other way and get a fairly wonderful 4670, cheaper, easier on power requirements and cooler, albeit less graphical grunt. Still good though.
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    Re: Best graphics card under £100

    The scan Palit card is infact xpertvision and has no fan speed issues

    It's 4.98*

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    Re: Best graphics card under £100

    The 4850 is the one to go for the &#163;100 mark.

    If you want something cheaper than the 4670 as mentioned by MSIC mentioned is excellent value for performance. However, I'm disappointed the 4670 came out more expensive than originally planned (&#163;50).
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    Re: Best graphics card under £100

    Okay so after thinking, the 4670 is like &#163;50 cheaper and I would really like to save that money. Is there a massive difference between the two? How is it compared to a 7900gt?

    I only really play TF2 and a few other games, so I'm not looking to max out crysis or anything.

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    Re: Best graphics card under £100

    The 4670 is generally viewed as comparable to the previous generation's 3850.
    Of course, the architecture between DX9 and DX10 means a direct comparison to a 7900 is perhaps a little unfair, then again you want to play games on them, so let's do a direct comparison
    I've had to chose a 256MB 3850 (which will not be 100&#37; accurate, but will give a flavour) verses a 7950GT (a bit better than yours, but again will give a flavour).
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    Generally 2 to 3 times faster. Of course, a 4850 will be faster again, but you pays your money, you takes your choice
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    Re: Best graphics card under £100

    I went for the Asus HD4850 at a touch over &#163;100, and its been fine.

    A hell of a lot quieter than my housemates Palit, due to the aftermarket fan having a better (read it exists, lol) fan controller.

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    Re: Best graphics card under £100

    4850 is a great card for around &#163;100. Best bang for buck.

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    Re: Best graphics card under £100

    Well I read about the 4830 coming out soon, but I think for the extra &#163;20 it would be best to go for a 4850. Especially considering that I game at 1920x1200

    Thanks for the help
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    Re: Best graphics card under £100

    Quote Originally Posted by Arjun View Post
    Well I read about the 4830 coming out soon, but I think for the extra £20 it would be best to go for a 4850. Especially considering that I game at 1920x1200

    Thanks for the help
    A guy at work just picked up a 4670 and is loving it. I think it really depends on what you are doing with the card - but the games he plays (TF2 mostly), apparently run perfectly on it. I've been considering one myself...Either that or some more disk D:

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    Re: Best graphics card under £100

    I'd save up &#163;10 and get a 4850 palit edition from scan, it's the best priceerformance card out at the moment, I mean for &#163;110 you can max out any game out whereas 1 year ago it would've costed you &#163;400 for a 8800 gtx.

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    Re: Best graphics card under £100

    Well I got an Asus 4850 512mb from OcUK for &#163;110 with 6&#37; discount and free shipping in the end

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    Re: Best graphics card under £100

    Quote Originally Posted by PeterStoba View Post
    The scan Palit card is infact xpertvision and has no fan speed issues
    They are different divisions of the same company.

    I do wish people would stop saying that the 4850 is the best &#163;100 card, as it's over &#163;100.
    The majority are between &#163;115-120

    Now gratned that the Plait ont is a whole &#163;2.80 over &#163;100 but that's still over.
    Sorry to split hairs but when I see "Best graphics card under &#163;100" I assume the person means &#163;80-90ish

    To which my answer is This
    4670 with a decent aftermarket cooler

    This leads me onto my other major objection to the "4850 is the best &#163;100 card" namely the stock cooler is
    Now I may be parranoid about temps but +80c under load is not exceptable and I think I'm fairly safe, seeing some of the 4850 failier reports.
    Please note this is not the chip generateing too much heat, just the inability of the cooler to dissapate it.

    So if you add on the cost of a good aftermarket cooler or card with a good aftermarket cooler (like the HIS IceQ) you're pushing that price up another &#163;15-20 so this &#163;100 card is actually costing &#163;130-140ish


    PS I what PSU have you got? that could be the reason for the troubles with the 7900gt and if that's the case then your 4850 will not last long.
    7900 GT idel=23W load=48W
    4850 idel=41W load=110W
    4850 overclocked to 800/1250 idel=64W load=133W


    Another smallish rant, the 4670 is very low power when idel (10w), not under load (70w),
    it's low power compaired to high end cards, but it is not a high end card, compaire it to the 3850 which performs around the same.
    idle=14W load=63W
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    Re: Best graphics card under £100

    &#163;2.80 is nothing and the cooler that comes with it is excellent...

    It's 4.98*

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    Re: Best graphics card under £100

    I have a 450w Enermax PSU

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