Usual Question ... Which graphics card would you buy?

[SAB]

Hi,

I know you're asked this question a number of times, but this is only
because you are the best people to ask ... (enough of the brown nosing
....)

i have a computer with an AGP x8 slot and want to buy a decent
graphics card to play half life/recent games with. My budget is £150
max and after doing a bit of research i have narrowed my option down
to a Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro 128Mb 256bit graphics card at £140.

What do you think about this selection? Have i missed another better
card for this price? What would you recommend from your own
experiences ...

Any kind of help will be greatly appreciated.

specs:
Intel D856Perl Motherboard
Tagan 480w power supply
Intel P4 2.8Ghz 800Mhz
2 x 512Mb Corsair XMS3200C2 Matched Pair
Maxtor 80Gb HDD SATA
NEC DVD

 

[JimBob]

Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro 128Mb 256bit graphics card at £140.<

Thats a decent card at a decent price. Can't complain. May i ask where from?

 

[Dan]

Also consider AGP version of Nvidia 6600GT. It's faster than the Radeon 9800
pro. If you wait a month of so the x700 AGP cards should be available.
Faster than the 9800 PRO and offers similar speeds to the Nvidia Card.

Dan

 

[Chadwick]

Thats a decent card at a decent price. Can't complain. May i ask where from?

I agree. I was looking at the same one myself.
If you're planning on overclocking, you can get a cooler for under a
tenner from eBuyer. It'll take up your next PCI slot

 

[JimBob]

Also consider AGP version of Nvidia 6600GT. It's faster than the
Radeon 9800 pro. If you wait a month of so the x700 AGP cards should
be available. Faster than the 9800 PRO and offers similar speeds to
the Nvidia Card.

This any good? http://tinyurl.com/6bg2j

 

[Geoff]

Hi,

I know you're asked this question a number of times, but this is only
because you are the best people to ask ... (enough of the brown nosing
...)

i have a computer with an AGP x8 slot and want to buy a decent
graphics card to play half life/recent games with. My budget is £150
max and after doing a bit of research i have narrowed my option down
to a Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro 128Mb 256bit graphics card at £140.

buy 9800 pro 128 meg

 

[Geoff]

buy 9800 pro 128 meg

oops ya
try and buy an arctic cooler for it, they are only £7 or so, you have to be
careful installing them (mostly the issue is removing the current heatsink)

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/prod...2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=62046

oops ebuyer appear to be out of stock of them, prob get more soon though,
they sell fast

 

[J. Clarke]

This any good? http://tinyurl.com/6bg2j

No. Note the "pci-e" in the description. That's PCI Express--it doesn't
fit in an PCI or AGP slot, just the new "PCI Express" slot that's on some
of the most recent motherboards.

 

[SAB]

Hi,

Thank you for your suggestions, the card i suggested is form scan
computers www.scan.co.uk

I think i will take up on your suggestions to wait for the new 6600
agp version.