What's Best Graphic card for £50
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Topic: What's Best Graphic card for £50
Posted By: levyte357
Subject: What's Best Graphic card for £50
Date Posted: 27 January 2010 at 4:54pm
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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...  ) 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. ------------- "Who am I? I'm the guy who does his job.. You must be the other guy". |
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Posted By: kazakore
Date Posted: 27 January 2010 at 5:46pm
| AGP or PCIe? |
Posted By: levyte357
Date Posted: 27 January 2010 at 6:31pm
PCIe mate... I'm not tweeter box..  ------------- "Who am I? I'm the guy who does his job.. You must be the other guy". |
kazakore wrote:Posted By: kazakore
Date Posted: 27 January 2010 at 6:46pm
Can't help you then, never owned a desktop with PCIe  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 - http://www.dabs.com/products/asus-ati-radeon-4650-hd-512mb-pci-express-hdmi-6CZC.html?refs=43990000-51420000 |
Posted By: levyte357
Date Posted: 27 January 2010 at 9:05pm
Cheers for that... Have decided on the Gigabyte 4670HD. £56.14 inc vat Cant believe this pup has 1Gb of DDRIII. http://www.dabs.com/products/gigabyte-ati-radeon-4670-hd-1gb-ddr3-pci-express-2-0-dvi-5HYR.html - http://www.dabs.com/products/gigabyte-ati-radeon-4670-hd-1gb-ddr3-pci-express-2-0-dvi-5HYR.html General
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Posted By: kazakore
Date Posted: 28 January 2010 at 1:33pm
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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. |
Posted By: levyte357
Date Posted: 28 January 2010 at 2:44pm
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 - 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. ------------- "Who am I? I'm the guy who does his job.. You must be the other guy". |
Posted By: jonminns
Date Posted: 28 January 2010 at 4:07pm
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That's around £25 more than £50 though! ------------- 4 ohms is for wimps |
Posted By: levyte357
Date Posted: 28 January 2010 at 5:32pm
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 - http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/gpu_displays/his_radeon_4670_4830_4850_mid_range_round-up/7   ------------- "Who am I? I'm the guy who does his job.. You must be the other guy". |