help me buy a new graphics card please
 

hi all this is my spec so far.

i would like a new graphics card as when playing cod 4 etc the game crashes and says the card is over heating.

so i think it is time for a up grade

(drivers are all up to date)

Windows XP Home
service pack 3

Intel core 2 duo E8400 3.00 GHz cpu

1.98 GB Ram

Radeon X1900 graphics card, with a bigger cooler on it.

I would like to buy second hand to get a better card for the money. I only have a very small budget, so around £50 very max

thanks
ian

the new card needs to be a pci one

stretch a bit more and get a second hand 4870

restricts you if you want pci - how come no agp?

Because all decent mobo's now come with a pci-e slot for graphics as its quicker ;)
AGP is seriously old, slow and outdated now.

Tony:)

For your budget, something like this:-
11138-34-20R - 1GB Sapphire HD 4670, PCI-E 2.0(x16), 1746MHz GDDR3, GPU 750MHz, 320Cores, DL DVI-I/ D-Sub/ HDMI - Scan.co.uk

Tony:)

D'oh - I must have had a brain fart there! You're absolutely correct!

that looks nice.... and thats about as far as my knowledge goes on cards lol

Hi Tony, is this card a good step forward compaired to my current card?

thanks
ian


(will run the new cod came when it comes out)

Massive step forward mate :)

just make sure your psu is up to the job,your looking at 400w + for any good card to run right.

thought this was a good deal but 73 quid Novatech ATI Radeon HD4850 1024MB GDDR3 TV-Out/DVI/HDMI PCI-Express - Retail : novatech. : NOV-48501

Yes thats an improvement ;)

Tony:)

Bargain :eek:

Tony:D

this looks line it isnt for sale anymore, any other good ones around at the mo?

just got the new cod mw2 and it hardly plays it :(

just got a 8800 gtx

so hopefully this will run mw2

hmm. . .

everyone was recommending an ATI card as they are currently best bang for buck. . . .

You pays your money. . . How much was it?

yea not the best choice imo that is an oldish card now, it might struggle with MW2. Depends on your CPU, ram, hdd etc etc as well though.

£55

the ATI one people were recomending i know is a faster card, but double the price, as long as this tides me over for now ill be happy.

i play most of the games if i can on 1024 x 768 if i can so no massive res.

this is the card i won

Geforce 8800GTX 768MB inc artic cooling fan on eBay (end time 17-Nov-09 21:04:45 GMT)

its that time again.

my geforce 8800 gtx is just about playing black ops, what bargin card would you go for that is alot better than my current one? dont mind a ebay bargin :)

Is it the same system as the original post?

AGP ?

Hi there i don't think on MB which support E8400 you are find AGP slot;)

Hi look for 5770 1GB version these are good and will outperform 8800GTX in some games,but if you don't mind look for 5850,these excellent cards(if you are lucky,you will get this card around £150)

wait a bit and get a 6870?

Hi there 6870 are renamed 5850,just wait until will be released 6970 or 6990

the 6870 is the same +/- a bit to the 5870 @ slightly cheaper.

Best bang for buck card at the mo

Really? because i used to own an Asrock board that supported Core2Quad and AGP and i assumed a Core2Duo would slide right on in. ;)

http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.as...l=775Dual-vsta

AGP and PCI.

ASRock MB are not my favourite Motherboards,if you have old ASUS MB which support just E6600,P4 you will find only PCI-E and DDR2 support(out is few with support DDR1,AGP)

I've seen this MB for while,but this support PCI-E and AGP and now sourcing fast AGP is real problem

I have before XFX5870 and this are my result in 3D mark and 3D Vantage
http://www.overclock.net/picture.php...ictureid=13068
http://www.overclock.net/picture.php...ictureid=13070

I have noticeci get a error pop up every now and then. and when it does the game wont load and it crashes. but if it does not pop up, the game will run.

this is the error code?

error in c:\windows\system32\nvcpl.dll
missing entry : nvstartup

i have done a full virus scan with microsoft security essentials and a full scann with malwarebites and both were ok.

what would you say is causing this?

Take a backup.

Download (don't install yet) latest nvidea drivers

Uninstall current nvidea drivers

Reboot

Try a programme called "driver cleaner" to remove the nvidea & ATI ****e left behind

Reboot

Install latest drivers