maybe too much

[rymilky]

am i the only one that thinks graphics card are insanely price im looking at card to run bad company 2 yet they all seem to be about £100/£200 anyone care to point me in the right way for one

[shaithis]

What resolution are you running at?

and it takes a lot of clever trickery to put billions of transistors in a tiny square!

[rymilky]

well mines on my 40 inch tv at the mo so about 1280x720

[Pob255]

Not really, these are more normal prices for graphics cards, before all these economic problems the £ was riding very high and prices had dropped.
The big issues atm are in the mid range, nvidia is almost non-existant there and the older cards are still very good, the gtx550ti is really not much better than the gtx260 which can be got for about half the cost 2nd hand.

If you're only running 720p then you shouldn't need too much at all.

Quick question what are you currently using? or is this a new build?

You can pick up a 6770 for around £75 which is one of the better performance vs price new cards, although it's not much better than a 4870 or gtx260.
It is slightly behind the gtx550ti (5-10% slower) but they are around £100 so it's a good chunk cheaper.

[rymilky]

i think im on 720 im not sure im using the hdmi port on my gigabyte m/b with an atholen 2 x3 with 4 gb ram and it was built last xmas but rather clean system iv just been using it for watching tv while my fokes sorts my tv out -.-

[Pob255]

Well the tv is going to be the main factor as to what resolution you can do, the older ones then to be 720p (1280x720) newer ones are generally 1080p (1920x1080) but there are other odd resolutions and numbers.

[rymilky]

well in the new year im going to be saving for a smaller screen and desk to have all my pc stuff but iv found out that my college uses msi gtx 460 and it run great on there

[Pob255]

Look at the gtx560(non-ti) this is basically the same gpu, just at higher clock speeds (due to fabrication issues the 400 series never ran as well as they should of, the 500 series are basically the same chips but with the fabrication issues corrected)

You're looking at around £140-150 http://www.scan.co.uk/shop/computer-...28336-cores%29

Performance is around the same level as the ati 6870 and about 15% faster than the gtx460 1gb

[rymilky]

oh sweet cheers man