My 9800 pro just croaked. Luckilly my board runs either AGP of PCI-E, budget of £100 but prefer £75. What is a good budget buy? Mainly used for games DoD-S, eve, BF2, etc. No support for crossfire etc.
Cheers
Jon
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My 9800 pro just croaked. Luckilly my board runs either AGP of PCI-E, budget of £100 but prefer £75. What is a good budget buy? Mainly used for games DoD-S, eve, BF2, etc. No support for crossfire etc.
Cheers
Jon
you could probably scrape a 7600GT with that budget
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=458375
or maybe go for the downgraded GS version.
That looks rather nice, dim question. Am running a rather large CRT, the card being dual dvi isnt a problem is it?
nup, as its dual-dvi you should get 1 (maybe 2 if they're being kind) DVI-VGA adaptors :)
Have you considered the Inno3D Gefore 7600 GST? I think you can pick one up at pcnextday for around 90 quid.
You'll easily play all the latest games at decent settings with this :)
Can get a Radeon Radeon X850XT for £100, any advantage to that? Or a X1800 GTO for £116.
Has to be said have been buggering around with computers and trying to figure out graphics cards hasnt got any easier since the amiga days ;)
7600GT is your best bet :).
I also have a radeon 9800, if i was to get the 7600gt, would it make a huge improvement for games?.... aka a £100 improvement!!!
Sorry to hijack your thread flibb but similar situation so just tohught id ask, hope you dont mind :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve B
It may be a silly question but basically will the card in that link provide a noticable improvement in games over an on board ATI Radeon Xpress 200 series?
Cheers.
*edit* My mate wants it and basically he wants to know if itll run fear pretty well :)
Hijack away mate, no probs here. Currently have two pcs in bitst rying to get my main one up and running. Might have my 9800 back up and running again. Just going to install the softmod drivers again and see what happens. Fingers crossed ;)
Xpress 200?
i'd say it would make a phenominal emprovement, as its not only offloading cpu cycles to a dedicated graphics processor, its not taking any system memory to run.
then again, i dont know how good the xpress 200 is:D so i dont really know:P
Am now posting this frm the laptop :( Got it up and running, managed a couple of rounds of DoD-S, then bigggggg graphics cockup. So looks like the 7600GT is on the books.
I replaced a 6600GT with a X850 Pro yesterday. I unlocked the disabled pipelines and was playing BF2 at 1280 with most things set to high. My existing waterblock fitted both cards too.
Generally happy, as the Mrs now has the 6600 for her RTS sessions.
The 7600gt is a good recommendation. I wouldn't go with a X800/850 as they can't do SM3.0 which is important in recent games. It would be a good step up from the 9800 - I think you'll be pleasently surprised (they're basically faster than a 6800GT, which was a blinder in it's time :) )
Have ordered the 7600GT from scan, it was on today only so saved another £5 :)
nice one mate, let us know how you get on with it:)