GaryCat

- I have a budget of up to about £70,
- I play 3D racing games (GPL, CMR, LiveForSpeed etc) but nothing too heavy
- Rest of the system is Asus A7V8X-X mobo, AMD 1800XP, 512Mb, SB Audigy.
- It must be a common chipset so it is supported by Linux.
- Reliability & Stability is more important than outright 3D perfomance

I was thinking Asus Radeon 9600SE or XFX GeForce FX 5600XT 128MB

Gary.

Nick

An FX5600XT should be good. XFX are ok, but their fans are often cheap & noisey. I'd go for an MSI if poss.

lightning101

Mediamax Radeon 9600 PRO 256MB DDR ATI TV-Out DVI-I Retail Box

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=59178

£74

Will hammer both of the above mentioned, as its a pro, and has far better motion video quality than GeForce.

Sith

Check out forums.overclockers.co.uk

DominicA

you should be able to get a second hand 9700pro or 9600xt on one of the forums for that... or thereabouts

StickyMicky

i think mines a geforce 5600 xt but its 256mb ddr

from memory it was a touch more, about 80/90 ish
but im running unreal tournement 2003 on full graphics and a 1280 screen res on my 1.2 thunderbird athalon, no problems at all

i cant rember the stats im running live for speed at but im sure it was max everything and 1600 screen res??

StickyMicky

ohh forgot to add, that i over clocked my graphics card as soon as it was installed and whacked up the core speed by about 100mhz and i also did the other bits and bobs, the actual thunderbird athlon cpu was over clocked to 1.3ghz but i was sick of it crashing when the temps got to 43 degrees, so i took it back to standerd

NVIDIA cards are a doddle to overclock, i couldnt get a radeon card to work with my mobo so i flogged it and bought the Nvidia

StickyMicky

its been coping fine at these speeds ever scince




this is what its supposed to be running as standerd

GaryCat

43 degrees? my athlon 1800XP runs fine at 50-60 deg all the time.

That's some overclock on the gpu - do you have any additional cooling?

olliecampbell

iTrader: (3)

Got one of these for sale if you're interested:

http://www.gainward.com/c-1.html?id=18

With a quieter fan on it as well.

Apologies for the blatant pimpage!

olliecampbellATyahooDOTcom