Best deals youve seen for 1gb graphic cards ?

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

If CAT is willing to send / sell me his copy of windows it would certianly makeup for overheads- assuming its cheaper or free of course

Eh??

[melon]

There does come a point where you chase upgrades with decreasing returns and it's worth getting a new computer. That combo deal is very good - covers just about everything with well matched components. You don't need an extra copy of windows - that combo comes with it.

But it's a lot of money just for one game - if you play other things as well it's worth it. Otherwise you could wait for The Witcher 2 to come out on console.

Yes - lol its not just for gaming

My hands arent suited to consoles unfortunatley ( i have very bad joints ) so i dont do well with button mashing on gamepads at all , unless they had an autofire button .

Its problem on pc games too so i usually try to avoid combat altogether and use magic , not sure of any way round that other than those rubbish autofire programs like with runescape that dont turn off , I even bought the G-15 ? LOGITECH keyboard but it barely worked with any games.

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[kalniel]

Much as it pains me (because it's an excellent game), be warned there is (mouse) button mashing in The Witcher 2. I don't like that they put it in, and there's at least an option to reduce the difficulty, but it's still there and unavoidable on a couple of occasions (though a macro for repeated mouse clicking should work).

[melon]

There does come a point where you chase upgrades with decreasing returns and it's worth getting a new computer. That combo deal is very good - covers just about everything with well matched components. You don't need an extra copy of windows - that combo comes with it.

But it's a lot of money just for one game - if you play other things as well it's worth it. Otherwise you could wait for The Witcher 2 to come out on console.

I just want something that is

a ) going to last / be relevant for gaming and the basics / wear and tear of average pc use

b ) also for light scale media projects / 3d monitor if i get one

c ) upgradable

d ) dependable

e ) looks resonably cute

f) isnt so noisy

g ) Has possible reslate value in 2 yrs

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[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I just want something that is

a ) going to last / be relevant for gaming and the basics / wear and tear of average pc use

b ) also for light scale media projects / 3d monitor if i get one

c ) upgradable

d ) dependable

e ) looks resonably cute

f) isnt so noisy

g ) Has possible reslate value in 2 yrs

m

I am not so sure about the last requirement!!

[melon]

Much as it pains me (because it's an excellent game), be warned there is (mouse) button mashing in The Witcher 2. I don't like that they put it in, and there's at least an option to reduce the difficulty, but it's still there and unavoidable on a couple of occasions (though a macro for repeated mouse clicking should work).

Ah .. it looked so nice too

but I cant mash crunch buttons like 20 yrs ago... connective tissue you see is just awol

I cant believe their still using the same system Diablo had...

The irong being i usually end up playing the one sort of game i am sick to death of the most .. 3rd person shooters

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[melon]

I am not so sure about the last requirement!!

no good for selling in 2 yrs ?

hmmm

Or , you mean my typo

[melon]

Much as it pains me (because it's an excellent game), be warned there is (mouse) button mashing in The Witcher 2. I don't like that they put it in, and there's at least an option to reduce the difficulty, but it's still there and unavoidable on a couple of occasions (though a macro for repeated mouse clicking should work).

It makes me wish i had my own pet monkey who could just take over , i should really get one and train it- then pimp him out to fellow playasss.

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[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

no good for selling in 2 yrs ?

hmmm

Or , you mean my typo

The first!! For instance an HD5850 1GB graphics card which was between £200 to £250 at launch in September 2009 can be had for between £100 to £125 brand new now!

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

IIRC,some mice like the G9 allow you to multi-click.

[melon]

IIRC,some mice like the G9 allow you to multi-click.

Not sure what you mean , as in one click = 20 ?

looking now.

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later : just looks like another device with macros an buttons.

why the hell dont they have autofire buttons , on the old joysticks you could swich it to autofire and just press the button when you wanted it , it was so simple and effective

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO8fKRE-InU

Now if i had this i might have chance with consoles.

[melon]

jackpot !!

http://www.videogamecentral.com/prod...ing-Stick.html

though its says nothing about windows 7

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[jim]

jackpot !!

http://www.videogamecentral.com/prod...ing-Stick.html

though its says nothing about windows 7

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Says Vista so it should be fine

[jim]

Dont know whether you bein sarcastic or not here - like i said im no expert so if its gives you your jollies so be it.

I dont really want to know what every individual component means compared to the next - is it faster , is it dependable , is it cheaper , is it upgradable will work with software I want to run i.e. games or other future games / sound editors / 3d monitors

these are the sort of question i ask.

Ive never built my own pc before so I have no idea what all the relative abbreviations mean , nor do i want to ,unless its relative to what i need - cost being one of them , and why that £28 card above thats 1gb is only £28.0 0 while there are others that are almost £200.

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I was being sarcastic, yes, but with the aim of being helpful.

The point I'm trying to make is that graphics cards all have video RAM on them - maybe 256MB, maybe 512MB, maybe 1GB. However, that's no indication of how good a card is. The example I posted is a really rubbish card that's absolutely no use for proper gaming, yet it has 1GB of RAM.

So, as I said, don't worry about the memory, worry about the GPU (graphics processing unit), the equivalent of a CPU/processor. The actual video processor on the card, or more simply the model of card, is much more important than the amount of memory.

Worry about whether to buy a 460/480/560/580 or a 4870/5850/5870/6870, don't worry about how much memory it has on it. If you buy a decent card, it will come with enough memory supplied.

That's the long form of what my original post was meant to be saying

[melon]

I was being sarcastic, yes, but with the aim of being helpful.

The point I'm trying to make is that graphics cards all have video RAM on them - maybe 256MB, maybe 512MB, maybe 1GB. However, that's no indication of how good a card is. The example I posted is a really rubbish card that's absolutely no use for proper gaming, yet it has 1GB of RAM.

So, as I said, don't worry about the memory, worry about the GPU (graphics processing unit), the equivalent of a CPU/processor. The actual video processor on the card, or more simply the model of card, is much more important than the amount of memory.

Worry about whether to buy a 460/480/560/580 or a 4870/5850/5870/6870, don't worry about how much memory it has on it. If you buy a decent card, it will come with enough memory supplied.

That's the long form of what my original post was meant to be saying

Got you captain.

So its lot like how hard drive capacity is pretty much meaingless when it comes to pcs.

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[jim]

Got you captain.

So its lot like how hard drive capacity is pretty much meaingless when it comes to pcs.

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Sort of. I mean, don't get me wrong, a GTX 580 with 256MB of video RAM would be pretty rubbish, but obviously they don't make it - they give all of the cards enough memory to do the job. Sometimes having more memory can be useful, but it's always going to be far less important than the chip.