Graphics cards

[Tom Swierzbinski]

I have an AGP slot, and no, Im not bloody upgrading anything else on this damn PC! Apart from possibly the graphics card!

I know nothing about graphics cards, so whats the best sort to get? Im only looking at a GeForce, not an ATI, because weve had GeForces in the past and theyve never done us wrong. I have a budget of around £110/$230. The one Ive got at the moment is a FX5200, and while it does the job, I cant exactly crank up the graphics on FEAR, for example, and it looks pretty pants on low settings. Chipset (or whatever the fuck its called) its an AMD 2800+, again quite old, but no reason to upgrade that just yet.
Is it best to save up a little more, or will I just be upgrading the graphics again in a few months time?

[xThatguyx]

Something like this might do the job...just my 2 cents

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102680

[benagain]

what are you wanting to do with it? just gaming, video capture, etc.. Just Wondering. There's about a bajillion diff cards out there depending on what you want to do.

[Tom Swierzbinski]

Oh shit I forgot about that lol. Tis for gaming, Im looking at a 6800GT at the moment. Is there any difference between it having 256 or 512mb of RAM? Ive got a gig of it in the PC anyways.

[Alive]

you wont need 512MB of ram on a video card for a long time, the the 6800GT with 265 mb's is cheaper than the 512 get the 256. I have a 6800 16 pipelines 4 vertex shaders 128 mb's of ram and i love it runs fear extermelly well

[OzzyOz]

hmm
will i need to upgrade my GFX card for future games? Or my setup?

i have a

AMD 64 3200 w/ asus K8VNSE mobo
9800 pro GFX card ( 128 Mb )
1 GB of alright memory

[BobBong]

Psssst.. Intel just bought ATi

http://www.i4u.com/article6135.html

[Tom Swierzbinski]

Psssst.. Intel just bought ATi

http://www.i4u.com/article6135.html


Psssst... it was AMD that bought ATi!

On another note, Ive just gone and bought a new graphics card. XFX Geforce 6800XT Xtreme, whatever the hell that means. Anyways, its got 1GHz of memory clock speed and 380MHz of GPU clock speed... compared to my 350 memory clock and 250 GPU clock lol. Should be coming next week, and for £102, I think its a bargain. I decided against eBay in the end and bought it offa pixmania. 256MB of memory aswell, which is perfect for me at the moment.
Im happy with my purchase :)