Cheap Graphics Card?

hoothoot · Post by **hoothoot** » 08 Oct 2009, 08:46

Hey Suck-o community,

Need some advice off the members here who I would like to think know a little about computers

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Can you show me some good gaming graphics cards for under 80 dollars. Any help would be great and if not then that's ok to

Also im from the UK so shipping would be great and if your also from the UK I have £50 to spend....

Post by **floodhound2** » 08 Oct 2009, 09:08

You using a PCI, PCI 2.0, PCI express, or AGP slot?

With 80 bucks and depending on the slot, you have hundreds of choices.

hoothoot · Post by **hoothoot** » 08 Oct 2009, 09:09

Its a PCI-Express slot

Also thanks for the reply

Post by **bad_brain** » 08 Oct 2009, 11:54

hm, I am an ATI fan (having the MSI HD 4850 heatpipe edition), so I recommend a HD 4670 one:
link here.

but well, if you can spend 20 bucks more you can even get a Sapphire HD 4850 already with a much better performance (800 stream processors instead of 320 on the 4670):
link here.

Post by **floodhound2** » 08 Oct 2009, 13:06

hoothoot wrote:Its a PCI-Express slot

Also thanks for the reply

You have a multitude of cards to pick from at that price range. Unless you need a kick ass card then you got to bump the cash flow up considerably.

Go for the 9600 GT

Scroll towards middle of the page and see.

http://www.scan.co.uk/Index.aspx?NT=1-0 ... .515.598-0

same here

http://www.scan.co.uk/Index.aspx?NT=1-0 ... .555.176-0

Make sure you get the right socket...

hoothoot · Post by **hoothoot** » 08 Oct 2009, 13:15

Thanks for all the help

And thanks floodhound this helped a lot

floodhound2 wrote:
hoothoot wrote:Its a PCI-Express slot

Also thanks for the reply
You have a multitude of cards to pick from at that price range. Unless you need a kick ass card then you got to bump the cash flow up considerably.

Go for the 9400 GT

Scroll towards middle of the page and see.

http://www.scan.co.uk/Index.aspx?NT=1-0 ... .515.598-0

same here

http://www.scan.co.uk/Index.aspx?NT=1-0 ... .555.176-0

Make sure you get the right socket...

Post by **floodhound2** » 08 Oct 2009, 14:06

You are welcome.

Please feel free to ask any questions you may have no matter how trivial it may seem.

Post by **bad_brain** » 08 Oct 2009, 15:47

well, in the life of every good man there comes a day where he must make a decision: ATI or Nvidia?

I see floody joined the dark side, but ok...you can still trust him..

Post by **computathug** » 08 Oct 2009, 17:33

Once you have your card and want to go and buy a game there is a neat little site which lets you test you have the correct system requirements for the game you want to purchase called 'Can You Run It?'

http://cyri.systemrequirementslab.com/srtest/

Post by **floodhound2** » 09 Oct 2009, 10:53

bad_brain wrote:well, in the life of every good man there comes a day where he must make a decision: ATI or Nvidia?
I see floody joined the dark side, but ok...you can still trust him..

L.M.A.O - Me and you Buddy!!! We fight tonight when the street lights come on.

I actually do prefer Nvidia. I have had a few ATIs and they were not so bad. Its strange how we people, make our decisions and tend to stick to them. I just lean more towards Nvidia for some reason.

Post by **bad_brain** » 09 Oct 2009, 14:10

I had an nvidia card on my old system (7900GS AGP), but sadly exactly that model was (later) known to be buggy, I had loads of artefacts and texture errors when playing Fallout3 with it...so it kinda ruined my nvidia experience. but there are surely ATI cards that are also not really reliable.

but ok, I have to admit the ATI card I am using now got 50% of its awesomeness through me by customizing the g-card BIOS..^^
in default state the fan was running on 60% of max speed even on a cold card, which is a very odd on a card with a giant heatpipe cooler. I reduced it to 37% to make it silent and the GPU temperature still never raises over 52 degrees Celsius.

Post by **computathug** » 10 Oct 2009, 04:40

I used to tend to go for Nvidia cards but when i went to buy my last card and after doing some research changed sides. I bought a Asus EAX 1650XT Crossfire card around 2 years ago and it has been quite a good choice. It is actually a little louder than normal but for the price and quality, i would say i made a good choice.

Here is a write up on the card im using at the moment.

http://www.sharkyextreme.com/hardware/v ... hp/3653491

Post by **bad_brain** » 10 Oct 2009, 06:57

thuggy, if it's too loud and the temperature is not at the limit already you can customize the BIOS of the g-card, that's what I did with my HD4850.
here you can find a howto:
http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/ove ... idcard/154

of course you should use GPU-Z to keep an eye on the temperatures:
http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/16 ... 0.3.5.html

for me it was really worth it, when I first used my new g-card I was really disappointed because it was damn loud...now it's totally silent..

Post by **computathug** » 10 Oct 2009, 07:40

Thanks b_b, just had a read.

I will try this later and check out the results

isapiens · Post by **isapiens** » 14 Oct 2009, 08:36

funny you ask. I was just reading this article yesterday.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gef ... ,2445.html