Looking for a new graphics card.

[mr_snrub]

Well, I've been out of the technological loop for quite some time now, meaning I've got only the vaguest of ideas what's good anymore.

I was wondering if one of you nice, kind people could recommend a graphics card, preferably no more than £60/70. Understandably, running games on my S3 ProSavage (yes, I know) is a little.. impossible.

Ta.

 

[mank]

I don't think you'll improve on your current card much with a £60-70 budget.

 

[mr_snrub]

I'm not looking for the best card in the world.. And I'm afraid I'm currently pretty skint, don't have enough money to be splashing it out freely on computery parts

 

[Embattle]

With that amount you're in the following areas:

Radeon 9200
GeForce FX5200
GeForce 4 Ti4200

A little review of the 9200 vs the 5200 here:

http://www.ocaddiction.com/reviews/video/fx5200vsr9200/

 

[mr_snrub]

Excellent, I'll look into that right away. Thanks a lot.

Incidentally, my current graphics card is on the motherboard.. I've had problems in the past with replacing these, and I was wondering how you'd disable it first, if possible. I managed to work my way around it first time with complete luck, something that's rare with bastard computers.

So yeah, again, any help appreciated.

 

[Cdr]

If it's onboard, I'd make sure you have an AGP slot, sometimes they dont put one on You dont wanna go splashing out on a new vid card only to find you have no where to put it.

 

[mr_snrub]

Yep, just had a look. Indeed, there is an AGP port.

 

[Embattle]

Most the time you disable the onboard graphics via the BIOS.

 

[Anasyn]

And whilst this topic exists, how about one for c. £150-ish?

 

[Teh Krypt]

I think ive seen 9600 pro's for that, but not sure

 

[Nazgul]

how bout the ATI 9600 (non pro) or the Nvidia 5600 (non Ultra)

 

[Ch3tan]

9600 pro on ebuyer for far less than £150.

 

[Teh Krypt]

Was only going off shop prices

Like ch3tan said mr_snrub, have a look on www.ebuyer.com and find a gfx card for around your price range..

 

[Ch3tan]

Shop prices are very awful.

Saw a Radeon 9800 pro for £430 yesterday! Still they were still selling 9500's and 9700's in this shop, unfortunetly they were also very very pricey.