New Graphics Card

Kenny · **Posted:** March 31st, 2008, 12:14 am

I would like to get a new graphics card, since at the moment I have an intergrated one and it is horrible what type of graphics card would you recommend. Is it better just to wait to get a new pc ? £100 would be the price limit I think. English sites please.
Thanks
Kenny

Adbot · **Posted:** March 31st, 2008, 12:14 am

Mushroom Queen · **Posted:** March 31st, 2008, 6:40 am

Do you have an AGP or PCI slot?

MattVortex · **Posted:** March 31st, 2008, 8:52 am

Mushroom Queen wrote:

Do you have an AGP or PCI slot?

...or PCI-E?

And how fast is your processor?

mcnabb921 · **Posted:** April 2nd, 2008, 6:00 pm

And also is this is a laptop or desktop? Graphics cards can be tricky things to upgrade on laptops.

Mushroom Queen · **Posted:** April 2nd, 2008, 7:47 pm

And are you running Vista or XP (or some other OS...)? Nvidia have been having some problems with their Vista compatible cards.

Ranging God · **Posted:** April 3rd, 2008, 5:36 pm

Well assuming you have PCI-e
I would go with this one. I have it and it run's great.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications ... =P450-8650

Adbot · **Posted:** April 3rd, 2008, 5:36 pm

Kenny · **Posted:** April 4th, 2008, 3:56 am

I running on windows xp. How do I find out what my port is and how fast my processor is ?

bhh2000 · **Posted:** April 4th, 2008, 12:02 pm

if you can get this one I'd get this one a lot of bang for the bux!!

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications ... CatId=1826

Ranging God · **Posted:** April 6th, 2008, 4:28 pm

bhh2000 wrote:

if you can get this one I'd get this one a lot of bang for the bux!!

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications ... CatId=1826

Yeah, pretty much the same thing I suggest. the 8600's are great for the price

Mikhail · **Posted:** April 6th, 2008, 4:58 pm

8800 is the best now, but if you have cash go for it, it's more than 200, 8600 will hold up

MattVortex · **Posted:** April 7th, 2008, 2:28 am

Mikhail wrote:

8800 is the best now, but if you have cash go for it, it's more than 200, 8600 will hold up

No, the 8800 isn't the best anymore. The best is the 9800GX2, then 9800GTX, 8800GTX, 8800GTS, 8800GT, then the 9600GT. The 9600GT is one of the best value cards you can buy at the moment.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/141670

That one would be a good one to get, since it's also overclocked - it runs faster than the default speed.

With a good card like that, though, you'll need a good motherboard and processor to make sure the FSB or CPU don't bottleneck your system and stop the card using its full capabilities.

Kenny · **Posted:** April 7th, 2008, 12:24 pm

To be honest it sounds like i'm better off waiting to get a new pc. Mod can lock.

Mushroom Queen · **Posted:** April 7th, 2008, 1:35 pm

Please report your topic if you want it locked next time.

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