Graphics card recommendation?

[SirNeo]

I dont know your mainboard but my opinion;

1- under £100; MSI - NX8500GT-TD256E

2- £100-£200; POWERCOLOR - X1950 PRO SCS

3- over £200; POWERCOLOR - HD2900XT 1GB

[davijin]

we need your motherboard specs to tell you what card you should get, theres a possibility you will have AGP slots instead of PCI express which will limit what gfx card you can get. all the faster cards will be pci express. you can just download a program like cpu-z and it can tell you what processor, motherboard and ram you have and give you details on them also.

[lancsDavid]

ok davijin, here is the system info u say is needed...

(from XP's built-in 'System Information' tool. and i've included other stuff it mentions in case it's any use)

Processor: x86 Family 6 Model 10 Stepping AuthenticAMD ~2083MHz
BIOS Version/Date: Award software, inc. Asus A7V600-X ACPI BIOS Revision 1008, 08/03/2005
(Motherboard box also says ASUS A7V600-X on it)
Total physical memory: 768MB
Available physical memory: 165.66MB
Total Virtual Memory: 2.00GB
Available Virtual Memory: 1.96MB

Graphics Card
Name: NVIDIA GeForce3
Adapter: PCI
Adapter RAM: 64MB
Installed Driver: nv4_disp.dll


& cheers for the pointers SirNeo. i'm checking them out now

[davijin]

thx, yeah your motherboard has agp instead of pci express. you can still get a decent card just not the top of the line stuff like the ati hd2900, nvidia 8800s. I checked around on the web and it looks like the fastest agp cards are the nvidia 7950gt and ati x1950xt. still pretty good cards not as fast as the high end 8800 and hd2900 but both will be a great improvement over the x300.

[lancsDavid]

cheers for the info, it's useful

thing is, cos i'm a bit short of money at the moment i was hoping to get a second-hand graphics card just to tide me over until next year (when i'll probably get a full system upgrade)

** becos i'm figuring - maybe incorrectly - that my current card's a bit sluggish & is slowing things down somewhat **

anyways, i've seen an "ATI RADEON X800 XT,PE (256 MB) AGP" card on ebay that's being bid on at the moment, currently going for £40

is this much of an improvement on an NVIDIA GeForce3?

[SirNeo]

cheers for the info, it's useful

thing is, cos i'm a bit short of money at the moment i was hoping to get a second-hand graphics card just to tide me over until next year (when i'll probably get a full system upgrade)

** becos i'm figuring - maybe incorrectly - that my current card's a bit sluggish & is slowing things down somewhat **

anyways, i've seen an "ATI RADEON X800 XT,PE (256 MB) AGP" card on ebay that's being bid on at the moment, currently going for £40

is this much of an improvement on an NVIDIA GeForce3?

I used same model two years(it's perfect card); this is better than GF 3, u can buy it!

[davijin]

yeah the x800 should be much faster than a gf3. it should tide you over for a while. just so you know graphics card only controls viewport performance just about everything else is processor power.

[lancsDavid]

thanks for all the help

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