What graphics card do I buy

[Black-heart]

Just wondering if anyone could help me with my choise of upgrade for my pc.

At the moment i have a geforce fx5200le (dont laugh!!!) P4 2.8 ghz and 512mb ddr ram. I'm looking to upgrade the graphics card and possibly ram as currently my game performance is shockingly bad.

I play (or will play) Quake wars enamy terratories (sorry about the spelling) It plays a modded doom 3 engine with better outdoor textures.

Battlefield 2 farcry unreal 2007 etc. i want to run all of these on medium settings (but i dont mind not having dynamic shadows on)

My buget is £85 although i possibly i could stretch to a bit more (no suggesting £115 660gts though. I have Agp 8x motherboard

Also if included in the buget i could get some more ram.

Thanks

Patrick

 

[RichPLS]

Sapphire Radeon X800 GTO2
or if ya have AGP, ya didn't state, but I deduced...
Radeon X800 GTO

 

[mdd1963]

Find a 6800GS AGP board, for around $210 US.....

Up your mem on the mainboard to at least 1 GB....

YOu'll be set....!

 

[Black-heart]

Yeah i do have agp. thanks for posting do you know where and for how much i can get a x800gto2. Preferably in sterling.

$210 is over my buget by a fair amount especially once you include the ram. I know its a great card but i just dont have that kind of money.

Keep posting

Regards

Patrick

 

[Crashman]

You could look around for a 4-year old GeForce4 Ti4200, that would be about 3x the performance level of your 5200LE.

 

[mdd1963]

If a 6800GS is too much, I've seen 6600GT's avail for as low as $140US...

(You can always add a gig of RAM later)

 

[Black-heart]

That sounds great Ill have a look for a 6600gt.

I did look at the geforce 4 series but they dont play Bf2. And arent relly future proof. :?

Thanks 4 posting

Patrick

 

[Black-heart]

I tried looking for 6600gts and they were all to expencive in the uk
but in the us they werent to expencive

Does anyone know how good the Geforce 6200 is and which models can be softmodded. ALso if you are buying one (agp model) whic one do you get. If i got a 6200 i could get more ram as well.

Thanks please post

Patrick

 

[baracuda73]

Sapphire just released the x1600 pro for AGP i would look for that as it is un $200 in the US so it should be around 100 pounds

 

[FlyGuy]

Don't waste your time on the 6200. You might be able to get the x1600 AGP if it's available now, that would be roughly equivalent to the 6600GT. The non-GT 6600 might be able to give you what you are looking for as well.

 

[mdd1963]

"Don't waste your time on the 6200.."

Agreed.....!!!!!!!!

 

[Crashman]

Wow, a 100 pound graphics card? Imagine the shipping charges!

 

[Black-heart]

Sorry not to reply but my internet hasnt bin working. Ok ill stay away from the 6200

I found a ati 9700pro for £50 and i could buy ram as well then. Is the 9700pro and good. Thanks

Patrick

 

[Crashman]

Yes, it's worth at least 70 brittish pounds.

 

[Black-heart]

How big would the performance increase be over my last card if i dodnt get any ram compared to if i did.

Thanks for the posts

Patrick

 

[Crashman]

You should see 4 to 8 times the framerates with the 9700 Pro compared to the 5200LE on your system.

 

[Black-heart]

Ok that sounds like a huge inporvement so ill get it. thanks very much for the help

Patrick

 

[aceprowler]

Yes, and you'll be happy with the 9700pro, it's basically the same as 9800pro.

I still use the 9700Pro. So if you got a chance to pick one up, with your bugget, I would!