My Budget is £50 I am in the UK and I want to buy a Graphics Card which one should i go for. No more than £50
For the benifit of the rest of us who arent on that side of the pond, can you, for future reference, post either CAD or USD as well? To answer your question you should be able to get a GF4TI or a Radeon9200SE for that kinda price range.
Nope I'm on 'this' side of the pond but from what my European friends say, things are bloody expensive there! (especially with the Value-Subtracted-Tax)
i recently purchased a radeon 9200(se) and i live in the uk. i bought a 9200 for around £35 of dabs.com but later found it cheaper on another website, www.komplett.co.uk hope this helps
Is this Card any good? The other ones that are called 9600 are 100 while this one is less than half price http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=121420&cks=PRL
If im not mistaken thats a heavily downclocked version of their 9600 but that should be the only difference. Im an nvidia guy so this isnt my area of expertise.
i think the card is good, but sayin that i hve never had a better card. But i got the ati radeon 9200(SE) which is 64bit and for a extra £10 you can get the standard 9200 which is the 128bit. i dont know anything about how much better this would make the performance . hope this helps does anyone know about 128 an 64 bit?
Whoa.... ALL STATIONS: FULL STOP...... Radeon9600SE is 64bit???? I read this somewhere else before but i thought it would be a typo ..... someone please confirm? In an era of 256bit GPUs and 128/256-bit memory, to hear 64bit (which is pre GeForce256 btw -- thats almost 10 years ago) is shocking.
http://www.ati.com/products/radeon9600/radeon9600pro/compare.html Look at that Then look at that http://www.ati.com/products/radeon9200/radeon9200/compare.html
Ok its not as bad as I thought (or hoped ) ... sure a 64bit memory interface is kinda poopy and two generations old (the NV17+ to my knowledge have been 128bit with very few ultra-budget cards as exceptions and only with the NV17, nothing after that) but unless you really plan to play video games all the time at ultrainsane settings (which the GPU cant handle anyways) or do mass math calculations then it shouldnt be too big a deal and i "guess" it's kinda worth the price if you're of the type of user to "play video games occasionally" BTW what does the "SE" moniker mean? "Stupidly limited Edition"? _X_X_X_X_X_[small]ASUS A7N8X-X, XP2500+ OC'd to XP3200+ Samsung 1024MB, PC2700 OC'd to PC3200 480GB [3x160GB, 7200, 8MB] EVGA, GeForce4 Ti4600 128MB Rules and Policies: http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/2487[/small]
praetor do you think i could overclock that card? will i notice a big difference between that and my onboard graphics
Depends on the onboard graphics but it is a safe assumption to say yes you will notice a big difference -- assuming you do play games... if you want a business machine then it wont matter
In most cases you will notice the difference from Onboard to AGP Graphics Card. Due to Onboard Graphics 'share' your RAM in your computer. Therefore takes longer to access the RAM. If you do change your Graphics card, remember to go into the CMOS and turn it off, then you will gain your RAM back. eg if you have 512mb Installed RAM and ur onboard graphics was using 32mb, your computer actually only had 480mb Regards CoZZa
Not sure if this applies to the onboard Radeons and GeForces .... i thought they also had some form of onboard video memory too? (not sure, might have been notebooks im thinking about)
