Hows my new PC? and reccomend me a graphics card.

ryouga · Sep 19, 2006, 20:41:27

Just bought a AMD Athlon 64 3800+, with 1 gig of DDR 400 ram.

Thats all the specs you need(well the DVD burner and HD are non essential info)

I plan on buying a graphics card for £70-£80

All I want to play is CS:Source WOW, MOH Breakthough, COD United Offensive, and Quake 3

Maybe overkill but better than my old 2.68 Celeron, with 768 of 133mhz ram and a Radeon 9550 256mb!

Oh and I need a PCI Express card, I would of been happy with my old one but its AGP sigh.

mrapoc · Sep 19, 2006, 22:03:42

7600gs
check for reviews on all the different manufacturers as there can be a slight difference between them

AvengerUK · Sep 19, 2006, 22:03:54

erm, hmmm, is that the highest you can go?

For that price your proberbly best of with a Nvidia 7600 series or a ATI X1600 series card.

EDIT: Grr apoc, beat me to it!

mrapoc · Sep 19, 2006, 22:07:03

muahahahahaa

if you can push a bit higher, the best mid range card is 7600gt

equk · Sep 19, 2006, 22:17:51

I would get the 7600gt, not that much more than the gs but a lot faster and at least has GDDR3 memory.

7600gt - £74.99+VAT
7600gs - £61.99+VAT

ryouga · Sep 19, 2006, 23:07:23

Where can I get the 7600gt for that price? at a push I could do £80, or £90 if I eat basics for a few days.

Cheapest I have seen them online is £100

equk · Sep 20, 2006, 00:08:53

Quote from: ryouga on Sep 19, 2006, 23:07:23
Where can I get the 7600gt for that price? at a push I could do £80, or £90 if I eat basics for a few days.

Cheapest I have seen them online is £100

BFG 3DFuzion GeForce 7600 GT 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-025-BG)
Price: £74.99 (£88.11 Including VAT at 17.5%)

The store had them on a offer a few weeks ago but they've kept the offer price on the website

I was thinking of getting one to keep me going until the geforce 8xxx(dx10) series is released

AvengerUK · Sep 20, 2006, 10:11:55

when is DX10 released? is it still Vista only?

mrapoc · Sep 20, 2006, 16:07:38

dx10 = no point until vista = could be delayed = if they do come out no point in dx10 capabilities = dx10 will only work with vista = vista might be delayed = you kinda get the point

AvengerUK · Sep 20, 2006, 17:00:11

When vista is first released watch it crumble and burn....it will be a hackers heaven!

mrapoc · Sep 20, 2006, 18:10:43

muahahahahaaaaa

equk · Sep 20, 2006, 18:29:51

OpenGL for the win tbh!

Not sure about vista being any good, but I would guess hackers will try. Seems like microsoft's version of Mac OSX tbh

I might be getting vista beta tomorrow. I know someone who has it so will probably just copy it to DVD to save me using 2.2gb of download on my connection

ryouga · Sep 22, 2006, 17:31:19

Right loads of good news!

I bought a 7600Gt 256mb, a gig more ram(so I now have 2 gig) and a second DVD burner for my PC.

So now I have a good build!

And more good news! my old Tiscali marker is off my phone line, so today I ordered IDnet(I paid the fee of £47 worth it to be rid of Tiscali!)

My new graphics card, dvdburner and ram were posted today, so by this time next week I will be very happy!

mrapoc · Sep 22, 2006, 18:15:39

wow thats gonna be quite a setup to contend with

we need to get more people in our temporary server (87.117.227.113:27015) any ideas and wanna meet up there sometime?

wots ur xfire addy