Best Bargain GPUs?

[Mutley]

Can anyone reccomend some good GPUs for PCI-e at around £100-150? I'm not sure if to go ATi or Nvidia, I like the ATi control panel better, seems to have more control or just a nice UI but to be honost I don't mind what make it is.

Thanks.

 

[giant384]

7600gt is one of the best mid-range cards.

 

[Asus]

giant is right, the 7600gt is a good midrange card. Although with the prices dropping you might be able to pick up a 7900gt or x1900gt within your budget instead.

Edit:£119.99 X1900GT

 

[Mutley]

Which is the better range, Nvidia7900 or Ati1900? The ATis look good, cheap for a 1900, I see you have one Asus, what sort of performance do you get?

I'm looking at the Doom3 Engine for Quake 4 etc and also preparing abit for Quake Wars, don't want to be disapointed when I can't run good settings. This is a good table though:
http://images.tomshardware.com/2006/05/15/graphics_card_buyers_guide_2006_part3/image022.gif

No benchmark on the 1900GT 256mb though.

 

[-Psy-]

They are pretty much neck to neck but the X1900GT is supposedly quieter.

Depends what resolution your running at.

 

[Asus]

FYI that picture doesn't link. Link to the page instead.

The X1900GT runs Quake 4 a bit better. Although the 7900GT runs D3 better. Odd since they use the same engine.

The 7900GT is more expensive and from what I saw, it is out of your budget. But the X1900GT just had a good price drop.

Battlefield 2
F.E.A.R.
Half-Life 2: Ep1
Quake 4
Splinter Cell
X3: Reunion (available on Steam)

 

[kacation_man]

while where on the subject... do you know if there are any decent ( better then the one i have ) gpu's around 100-120...im unfortuanly still running on a AGP... know of any?

 

[hneaz]

im selling mine soon on ebay. its a PNY 6600 GT. very good card. i ran Prey at full settings and got like 35+ fps at 1280*1024 resolution with 4X AA and 8X AF.
But im not supposed to be selling my card here....

the best card within that price range would be a 6600 GT or the x1600 Pro. if u want to pay extra $10, u can get urself a 7600 GS AGP.

7600 GS AGP

or u can get a 6800XT

6800 XT AGP


i dun really recommend buying AGP cards right now. they are gonna die soon....

 

[Asus]

while where on the subject... do you know if there are any decent ( better then the one i have ) gpu's around 100-120...im unfortuanly still running on a AGP... know of any?

7600GT (An AGP 7600GT? Nice)
Or if you are from the US, a X1600pro.

Although at some point you will have to upgrade to PCI-Express since they are really not making many good cards for AGP and you have to pay more to get similar performance.

 

[kacation_man]

i know there going out... i just wanna gennarly cheap one till the holidays when i plan on getting some new hardware... i think I'll look into the 7600... thanx.

 

[Solver]

7600 GT is good for your budget range. It should be around 110 GBP, I believe. Take the GT version, though.

The card runs just about everything there currently is comfortably on rather good settings. At least if you run in 1024x768.

 

[kacation_man]

my monitors native rez is 1440x900 im rock'N the widescreen :cheese:

 

[giant384]

my monitors native rez is 1440x900 im rock'N the widescreen :cheese:

same here :bounce: