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Video card. by The_Thief on 11-21-2004 at 02:17 AM

Hi,

Right now I have a ATI Radeon 7000 64mb card and I am thinking of upgrading to a better one for gaming purposses now money is an issue and I don't want NVidia what do you all suggest?

thanks


RE: Video card. by Underlord on 11-21-2004 at 02:23 AM

What price range? :)
You don't want anything with a Nvidia chipset? :-/


RE: Video card. by The_Thief on 11-21-2004 at 02:33 AM

No not nvidia 50-150 price


RE: Video card. by .blade// on 11-21-2004 at 02:35 AM

quote:
Originally posted by serpico
No not nvidia 50-150 price


USD?
And what kind of PC do you have right now (Speed, ram, disk space) bcz a better video card won't help a whole lot if your computer is shit...
RE: Video card. by The_Thief on 11-21-2004 at 03:29 AM

No CDN.  Right now I have a p4 1ghz, 512sdram, 80 gig hd and a creative labs sound card, dvd drive, dvd writer


RE: Video card. by Hank on 11-21-2004 at 03:58 AM

quote:
Originally posted by serpico
No CDN.  Right now I have a p4 1ghz, 512sdram, 80 gig hd and a creative labs sound card, dvd drive, dvd writer


  what bout a ATI9600 ?
RE: Video card. by The_Thief on 11-21-2004 at 04:02 AM

mmm mabye what about 9200


RE: Video card. by .blade// on 11-21-2004 at 04:12 AM

This is about as cheap as it's going to get for a card greater than 64mb.

http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?l...10524&newdeptid=18


RE: Video card. by Hank on 11-21-2004 at 04:14 AM

quote:
Originally posted by serpico
mmm mabye what about 9200


    GIGABYTE RADEON 9250 VIVO 128MEG  ..in aussie dollars is AU$150 

    GIGABYTE RADEON 9550 128MEG is AU$125

  i think there's a 9200 SE out ..GeXCube an Gigabyte make good ones ,

look on this site  for prices ..   http://www.pricewatch.com/



RE: Video card. by Garndell on 11-21-2004 at 01:21 PM

Thanks to the people at Sapphire here are 3 9600 cards inside your price range:

9600 128MB

9600 256MB

9600 Pro 128MB


RE: Video card. by The_Thief on 11-22-2004 at 02:37 AM

I've seen the 9200 for much cheaper than 150


RE: Video card. by The_Thief on 11-22-2004 at 03:26 AM

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/searchtool...2133&sku=C261-6042
http://www.factorydirect.ca/catalog/product_spec.php?pcode=AT9212

Those are ok yes?


RE: Video card. by Hank on 11-22-2004 at 05:47 AM

quote:
Originally posted by serpico
http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=612133&sku=C261-6042
http://www.factorydirect.ca/catalog/product_spec.php?pcode=AT9212

Those are ok yes?

they seem ok to me, but does your Motherboard Have AGP 8x support?  i

RE: Video card. by Pyroteq on 11-22-2004 at 12:46 PM

the prices on ATI RADEON 9800 Pros are dropping because they just stopped making them to switch from AGP8X to PCI-e, i just purcashed a gecube ATI Radeon 9800 for AU$250


RE: Video card. by The_Thief on 11-22-2004 at 03:54 PM

Yes I do have an AGP slot