Shoutbox

120 to 160 Pounds I guess

oh, that's a bit much - my PC in total has already cost me over £250.
i don't often play games - years since i last did! but still want a good graphics card as i have a TV tuner card now, i just want a decent card really that wont cost me too much

ATI X800 cards are great , maybe look at one of those? there also 256MB cards also

i dont know what the other guys think but... ebay... perhaps you'll find something...

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Originally posted by DJKAL


oh, that's a bit much - my PC in total has already cost me over £250.
i don't often play games - years since i last did! but still want a good graphics card as i have a TV tuner card now, i just want a decent card really that wont cost me too much

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Well I can sell you my Chaintech nVidia FX5200 256 Mb, it can play games, but it isn't great.. I'll check how much money I've got to purchase a new one.. I'll talk to you about this later if you're interested / if I definitly want to sell it.

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Originally posted by DJKAL
i don't often play games - years since i last did! but still want a good graphics card as i have a TV tuner card now, i just want a decent card really that wont cost me too much

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If you don't play games (at least for now) and don't do anything else specialized, then you might want to consider a motherboard that has integrated graphics onboard as well as a slot for a graphics card.  That will only add a small amount to the cost of the board and work fine for general use.  Of course, if your current graphics card fits the new motherboard you want, you can keep it.

Buy a nice graphics card when your needs change (you want to play games, upgrade to Vista, or get a high resolution LCD display you want to connect using DVI) -- they only keep getting cheaper and better as time goes by.

The TV tuner card should work fine with anything today, including integrated graphics.  Video overlay, the only special graphics card feature TV tuners make use of, has been standard on everything made in the last 5 years.

Why don't you try the ATi Radeon 9600 Pro? You could get a 256Mb version for that, I have the 128Mb one and it runs games really well... Condemned: Criminal Origins can run with really good graphics, all on medium/high (without dynamic lighting/shadows). So can Tomb Raider: Legend, Need for Speed: Most Wanted etc. I had an issue running Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter though .

It can run Half Life 2 with all graphics on the full with bilinear filtering & anti-aliasing at 4x

the one traxor says has these status :
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ATi RADEON™ 9600 Pro VPU
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Supports the new AGP 8X standard
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Integrated 256MB DDR Memory
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Fully support DirectX® 9.0 and the latest OpenGL® functionality.
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4 parallel rendering pipelines process up to 1.6G pixels per second.
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All new 128-bit memory interface
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DVI-I and TV-Out connector supported
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Supports''V-Tuner'' for overclocking.
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Bundles PowerDVD 5.0

and is cheap so i think i;ll get hat
thatnks Traxor

I am also looking to buy one. Im willing to spend around 6000 INR (i have to buy other things too) (6000 Indian rupees = 133.3032 U.S. dollars = 106.959159 Euro = 177.029482 Australian dollars)

A Nvdia GeForce 6200 256 Mb (AGP Card) costs 4000 INR for me
A Nvdia GeForce 6600 128 Mb (PCI-E Card) costs 5800 INR for me

My question is it worth giving more money and getting a 128mb pci-e card rather than a 256mb agp card ??

Ive heard from 2 people that it is .... i seriously need a view asap

DJKAL- You need to look at your price range, then select some cards your interested in.. Id go ATI but Nvidia is also good..

John Anderton..

Yes, it is.. PCI-e is the new technology, AGP is simply outdated.. PCI-e is faster and its just better.. So yes its worth getting one with half the memory i think...
For me that wouldnt work i have an AGP board.. Which annoys me, at the time i couldnt afford PCI-e (it was about a week old) But if you have a PCI-e board go for it..