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    Posted: 27 January 2010 at 4:54pm
Time has come to treat my home PC again.

Not as much of a hardware geek as I used to be, so dont track all these on Anadtech/Toms Hardware like I used to.

The case used to be Nvidia for performance and ATI for quality, not sure what the scenarios is now, but I'd prob choose Asus card + /ATI Radeon chipset over Nvidia for stability...

So chaps what do you recommend, for mainstream home use, with some light QuakeLive/NFS/FarCry?

Current card (ATI Radeon HD2600Pro) does 125 fps in QuakeLive @ 1280x1024, (on my 2.13ghz E6400 OC'd to 3.0ghz that is... LOL)



but will prob be upgrading to 21" monitor soon, and Intel Quad chip, so 200fps @ 1600x1200 would be nice.

PS:Nope, not spending penny more over £50.LOL


Edited by levyte357 - 28 January 2010 at 5:44pm
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AGP or PCIe?
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Originally posted by kazakore kazakore wrote:

AGP or PCIe?


PCIe mate... I'm not tweeter box.. LOL

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Can't help you then, never owned a desktop with PCIe Shocked

But something like this is probably what I would go for at the price.

http://www.dabs.com/products/asus-ati-radeon-4650-hd-512mb-pci-express-hdmi-6CZC.html?refs=43990000-51420000


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Originally posted by kazakore kazakore wrote:

Can't help you then, never owned a desktop with PCIe Shocked

But something like this is probably what I would go for at the price.

http://www.dabs.com/products/asus-ati-radeon-4650-hd-512mb-pci-express-hdmi-6CZC.html?refs=43990000-51420000


Cheers for that...

Have decided on the Gigabyte 4670HD. £56.14 inc vat

Cant believe this pup has 1Gb of DDRIII. Shocked

http://www.dabs.com/products/gigabyte-ati-radeon-4670-hd-1gb-ddr3-pci-express-2-0-dvi-5HYR.html

General

Device Type
Graphics adapter
Enclosure Type
Plug-in card
Interface Type
PCI Express 2.0 x16

Processor / Memory

Graphics Processor / Vendor
ATI Radeon HD 4670
Video Memory Installed
1 GB
Technology
DDR3 SDRAM 128-bit
Features
Avivo Technology, ATI CrossFireX Technology, GIGABYTE Gamer HUD Lite

Video Output

API Supported
OpenGL 2.1, DirectX 10.1
Digital Video Standard
Digital Visual Interface (DVI), High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI)

Expansion / Connectivity

Interfaces
1 x DVI-I (dual link) - 29 pin combined DVI , 1 x VGA - 15 pin HD D-Sub (HD-15) , 1 x HDMI - 19 pin HDMI Type A
Compatible Slots
1 x PCI Express 2.0 x16

Miscellaneous

Compliant Standards
RoHS

Software / System Requirements

Software Included
Drivers & Utilities

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But that's over your price range :p

But yeah you should be good with anything in the HD4xxx series I would of thought. Damned cheap these days as well.
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Originally posted by kazakore kazakore wrote:

But that's over your price range :p

But yeah you should be good with anything in the HD4xxx series I would of thought. Damned cheap these days as well.


Oops I got bitten... Will actually be Powercolor 4850 for around £75.

http://www.dabs.com/products/best-value-powercolor-radeon-hd4850-1gb-ddr3-pci-e-hdmi-dvi-6JF3.html?q=4850

256 bit memory bus as opposed to 128 on 4670... Gotta be worth £20.
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That's around £25 more than £50 though!
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Originally posted by jonminns jonminns wrote:

That's around £25 more than £50 though!


Comparison of 4850vs4670, with kinda games I play.

http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/gpu_displays/his_radeon_4670_4830_4850_mid_range_round-up/7



ETQW- HIS mid-range
 
UT3 HIS mid-range



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