Best cheap Graphics card?

Megalomaniac · Mar 22, 2005

Just wanted to replace my 440MX and wondering what is a good cheap one :smoking:

Cypher19 · Mar 22, 2005

Radeon 9600 is good and cheap, but keep in mind you'll probably be replacing that again in 1 to 1.5 years.

Dedatorv · Mar 22, 2005

Moved to a more appropriate forum.

Hazar · Mar 22, 2005

I just upgraded to a 9800pro from where you're at, and it was worth every penny of the $185

Megalomaniac · Mar 22, 2005

I'm planning on getting my own soon so it's not going to be big and flashy...but i was looking at the 9800Pro and the 9600XT. both i know are good...should i even look at NVidia?

NetGuru42 · Mar 22, 2005

Megalomaniac said:
I'm planning on getting my own soon so it's not going to be big and flashy...but i was looking at the 9800Pro and the 9600XT. both i know are good...should i even look at NVidia?

No. The generation of the "cheap, but good" graphics card you're looking at - was ruled by ATI. Don't even consider nVidia... ATI will outperform all nVidias for the same cost.

:cheers:

Max_Payne · Mar 22, 2005

i would recommend the 9800pro 128mg. I got one, runs half-life2 extremly well with all settings fairly high. Runs all my other games seamlessly. Good value... good card.

PEACE

mike :thumbs:

NonStopableForce · Mar 22, 2005

I chose the 6600 gt over the 9800 pro, and i think i chose right, you should too. : p

-NonStopableForce

gweedodogg69 · Mar 22, 2005

If you wanna wait till 512mb cards come out ill sell you my 6800 ultra 256 since ill be upgrading to 512

duffers20 · Mar 22, 2005

6600GT is the one to go for out of that and the 9800pro.

Ti133700N · Mar 22, 2005

duffers20 said:
6600GT is the one to go for out of that and the 9800pro.

Yea I agree. I prefer Nvidia drivers and i've never seen anybody with an Nvidia card have problems. Some of my friends who owns Radeon 9800 has problems with Kotor 2 because they have the latest drivers, it's sometime a pain to have to change or keep some drivers to be able to play a game and it might not work well wit hthose drivers on another game.... But anyway, they'r both excellent cards for their price, you can't go wrong with a 6600GT or a 9800Pro

furiousV · Mar 22, 2005

a 9800 Pro, they are really coming down in price these days. im running at max settings HL2 with AA and AF with no loss inperformance. though you would want to double your ram to 1024 to do that.
i have no regrets with my purchase, cost be about £140. but ive seen even cheaper now. just watch the currency

CptStern · Mar 22, 2005

Megalomaniac said:
I'm planning on getting my own soon so it's not going to be big and flashy...but i was looking at the 9800Pro and the 9600XT. both i know are good...should i even look at NVidia?

I've had both cards, get the 9800 pro, big improvement over the 9600xt

NikolaX · Mar 22, 2005

6600 Gt

Megalomaniac · Mar 22, 2005

Thanks for the help. what's a good Canadian computer site? (besides Vibecomputers, Greenlyph, and Mysterybyte)

[w0f]Oblivion · Mar 22, 2005

go with the geforce 6600gt
better bang for buck

duffers20 · Mar 22, 2005

Hmm the only american site i can really think of is newegg, don't know if they ship to canada though. Which card did you decide on by the way?

Vorac1ous · Mar 23, 2005

I order from everything from www.tigerdirect.com

Canadian version is www.tigerdirect.ca

Megalomaniac · Mar 23, 2005

I haven't. I'm gonna see what one has the best bang for the buck

Vigilante · Mar 23, 2005

I'd suggest a 6600gt

halflifeguy · Mar 23, 2005

9800 pro all the way!!!!

DrDevin · Mar 24, 2005

The 6600GT is the best bang for the buck in the midrange segment it outperforms the 9800pro by up to 2X in some games plus it has many more features including PS3.0 and PUREVIDEO. Benchmarks for the 6600GT vs 9800pro are here:

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2277&p=3

Purevideo performance increases are here:

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2305

Megalomaniac · Mar 24, 2005

Thanks...I think I might get the GT.

duffers20 · Mar 24, 2005

You will notice quite a performances boost with the 6600GT, going from an MX440. When i got my 9800pro, i went from a Ti4200 128mb card, and it was so cool to play games at high resolutions! Your gonna love it

Megalomaniac · Mar 25, 2005

lol not just performance...Looks as well...you should see the textures on High...no where near as good as some i've seen. but it still looks half decent.

SimonomiS · Mar 25, 2005

9800pro seems good, liking the price...now just to convince my dad to spend a bit of cash. His reasoning for not buying a new one is "It still runs it, so its ok."

furiousV · Mar 25, 2005

SimonomiS said:
9800pro seems good, liking the price...now just to convince my dad to spend a bit of cash. His reasoning for not buying a new one is "It still runs it, so its ok."

your nearly 16, you could probably already apply at your local Tesco/Asda/Morrisons or chipper, if u already got your NI card. theyll almost definetly get back to you as it nears christmas, then you can buy your own

and some RAM, or even save up for your own computer, should only take you about 2-4 paycheques, depending how much overtime you put in :thumbs:

Asus · Mar 25, 2005

The 9600 and 9800 cards are awesome. Just avoid the 9800Pro cards that only have 128Bit memory (not talking about MB but BIT) and look at the 256Bit cards. I'd probably recommend the 6600gt if you can afford it though. It's better overall.

Performance

Llama · Mar 25, 2005

i depends what you think of as cheep....id go for a 256 bit 9800

Cole · Mar 25, 2005

"It still runs it, so its ok."

Soo..make it not run..
Theres all sorts of things..
Hammers....yur head.. overclocking..

Lahire149 · Mar 26, 2005

Um.....i think you're forgetting something...

THE 9800SE IS FREAKIN AWESOME

Cause it can overclock/unlock pipelines and become a 9800 pro, with the only exception being that it is 128-bit.
It's incrediblly cheap. $85-$115
But i have an AIW 9800pro and it works great.

KoreBolteR · Mar 26, 2005

is radeon 9800 pro better than GeForce 5200, LOL.

dumb question, but i needed to know

Llama · Mar 26, 2005

or you could save up a thousand or so quid and buy a 6800 have 512 or DDR3 (!) memory, when it comes out in a few months

SimonomiS · Mar 26, 2005

furiousV said:
your nearly 16, you could probably already apply at your local Tesco/Asda/Morrisons or chipper, if u already got your NI card. theyll almost definetly get back to you as it nears christmas, then you can buy your own and some RAM, or even save up for your own computer, should only take you about 2-4 paycheques, depending how much overtime you put in :thumbs:

The thing is, Im too lazy to get a job, but I have enough money to buy a 9800pro, hes too erm, "proud" I guess, about his son buying something for "his" computer. *shrugs*
And NI card?

Also, on here why is the 9700 much cheaper than the others? I was thinking about that one, the last one or the first one.

Megalomaniac · Mar 27, 2005

Lahire149 said:
Um.....i think you're forgetting something...

THE 9800SE IS FREAKIN AWESOME

Cause it can overclock/unlock pipelines and become a 9800 pro, with the only exception being that it is 128-bit.
It's incrediblly cheap. $85-$115
But i have an AIW 9800pro and it works great.

I didn't know about this...how do you do it?

SimonomiS · Mar 27, 2005

Megalomaniac said:
I didn't know about this...how do you do it?

http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=9752
Its a sticky in this forum. :thumbs:

furiousV · Mar 27, 2005

SimonomiS said:
The thing is, Im too lazy to get a job, but I have enough money to buy a 9800pro, hes too erm, "proud" I guess, about his son buying something for "his" computer. *shrugs*
And NI card?

Also, on here why is the 9700 much cheaper than the others? I was thinking about that one, the last one or the first one.

NI Card = National Insurance card. Its got your National Insurance number on it you know :naughty:

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