Looking for a new Graphics card

[EdenFire]

well it has recently come to my attention that my graphics card isnt what i thought it was so im looking to upgrade it. Any reccomendations my budget is around anything from £1-£300.

[Sibrion]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...2E16814121282R

thats the 280 GTX ..check it out, it is very nice

[Nogardreyals]

i bought nvidia 280 gtx for about a year ago. and its working great i can run any game smoothly on highest graphic setting with good FPS.

but i dont know what card to buy to get most value for money it varies alot.


it also depend on what you play if you play wow cs:s cod4/5 etc you dont need a monster card.

but if you wanna play crysis warhead, far cry 2 etc. you gotta go big.


but whatever you do dont go ATI.

why not ati?

[dimmock]

If you have a PCI-Express Slot in your mother board then something from the new geforce series youll be able to play anything with that. If you have normal PCI i dont know if you have AGP then get the Play Value ATI Radeon X1650 Pro from www.play.com thats what i have and i can play almost every game i have. I can run World in conflict, red alert 3 and ghost recon 2 all on high with it and its only £40.

[shovel]

Don't you have a Mac? You can't upgrade those as far as I know.

[SnOwBunZz]

@OP

Useless thread untill you post your specs here.

[zyrion]

nvidia > ati

[EdenFire]

My comp specs are:
Processor: intel(r) Core(tm)2 quad CPU Q8200 @ 2.33 ghz (4CPU's) ~ 2.33 ghz
Memory: 4094MB Ram
Graphics card: NIVDIA GeForce GT 120

and its not a mac

[SnOwBunZz]

What's your budget?

[EdenFire]

Well in theory i can spend up to about £400 but would like to keep the max budget at like £300.

[Sakumo]

You're spending 400 Pounds or 400 Euros? Either way, it's a lot in US money..But I'd like to know which so I can get you a good power supply and a good card.

[SnOwBunZz]

You're spending 400 Pounds or 400 Euros? Either way, it's a lot in US money..But I'd like to know which so I can get you a good power supply and a good card.

£ = British Pound.
€ = Euro.

[Sakumo]

£ = British Pound.
€ = Euro.

Thanks. Anyway, for the card:
Graphics card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814150349
Power supply to run your computer and the new graphics card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817371020
Note: I'm just using newegg.com for reference, I don't know any UK shops.

[Paladuck]

We also need to know what resolution you will be gaming at, otherwise you're going to be throwing money away for a sexier card that will get you little to no performance boost.

I found this article for you, you should take a look. Its a review of the ATI 4890, but in its testing it matches up a number of different cards including the 4870 (what I have, a great value card IMO), the 4870x2, GTX 285, and GTX 260.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...4890,2262.html

[Sakumo]

We also need to know what resolution you will be gaming at, otherwise you're going to be throwing money away for a sexier card that will get you little to no performance boost.

I found this article for you, you should take a look. Its a review of the ATI 4890, but in its testing it matches up a number of different cards including the 4870 (what I have, a great value card IMO), the 4870x2, GTX 285, and GTX 260.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...4890,2262.html

True, true, but with a budget like that, he's probably running at a high resolution already.

[xlinax]

My comp specs are:
Processor: intel(r) Core(tm)2 quad CPU Q8200 @ 2.33 ghz (4CPU's) ~ 2.33 ghz
Memory: 4094MB Ram
Graphics card: NIVDIA GeForce GT 120

and its not a mac

Rebranding
GT120 = 9500 GT 9500 GT is good enough for to play most games online, but if u need a more crazy video card ? go for gtx 280 it should be cheaper now and it cost around 250 - 280 from ebay. U might wanna check newegg, but i dont think its cheaper than Ebay tho. Gtx 285 is not any better than 280 tho, and 295 is kinda overprice so 280 is ur best choice.

Why pick Nvidia over ATI ? Nvidia = Phyxs , Ati = no Physx

[Sakumo]

Rebranding
GT120 = 9500 GT 9500 GT is good enough for to play most games online, but if u need a more crazy video card ? go for gtx 280 it should be cheaper now and it cost around 250 - 280 from ebay. U might wanna check newegg, but i dont think its cheaper than Ebay tho. Gtx 285 is not any better than 280 tho, and 295 is kinda overprice so 280 is ur best choice.

Why pick Nvidia over ATI ? Nvidia = Phyxs , Ati = no Physx

ATI has Physx, just not the latest one. Also, why gethe GTX 280 and pay $230+ when you can get similar performance with the GTX 275 and 4890?

[snubi]

why not ati?

because there are some games that just wont work properly with ATI.

you will never experience compatibility issues with nvidia.
atleast they'll be very rare

intel processor and nvidia gfx card is the way to go for gaming. thats just how it is.

not saying that im an expert in this area or anything but pratically every gamer i know tells me this.

[Sakumo]

because there are some games that just wont work properly with ATI.

you will never experience compatibility issues with nvidia.
atleast they'll be very rare

intel processor and nvidia gfx card is the way to go for gaming. thats just how it is.

not saying that im an expert in this area or anything but pratically every gamer i know tells me this.

The last generation of CPUs and GPU, was AMD and ATI dominating, and 2 generations before that.