Best Graphics Card for under 100/150
 

Am on a budget and looking for a really good graphics card that won't crack under pressure of games like battlefield 2 and upcoming black & white 2. my radeon 9550 lags and slows up on me in certain maps in battlefield 2 and textures and graphics sometimes don't look right.

budget would be 100 but if you can find one for just over thats amazing then let me know about it too. plus give me your reasons for cards you suggest.

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You should be able to get an AGP 9800 Pro for around £150 now

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is that a good card.

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Yep I have the 9800 Pro and I think I saw it the other day for about £130 or even less. Its a great little card.

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yeah i have battlefield 2 and want black and white 2, think 9800 pro would be dead on for those games, and future titles as well now???? and to add is their much difference in performance between a 128mb and 256mb?

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Depends how far in the future, personally I would wait for the next bunch of cards to come along, but for its power, its by far the most cost effective card in its range and those surrounding.

Can pick it up for £80 here - http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...ice&show=stock

and £90 here - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatal...00_Series.html

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hm when would decent next bunch be out? lol and is their much difference in performance between 256mb and 128mb

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ATi X800 GT 256mb GDDR3 PCI-E

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/s...tml?SAP-X825GT

£115

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It also depends what kind of slot you have in your PC.
Newer motherboards have the new PCI-E slots and most new graphics cards that come out are now the PCI-E standard.
The 9800 AGP card is however very good and I reccomend it.

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I'd also go for that, as long as you have PCI-E.

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You will get a 9800 pro for less than £90
Overclockers have a x800 for less than £150
Lemonys card is a good price but as electro says its pci-e AGP cards like a 6600gt also look at x700
AGP versions below
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatal...00_Series.html
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatal...GP_Series.html


EDIT overclockers are not listing the x800 at the stated price anymore unless you have pci-e
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatal...CI_Series.html

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i don't have PCI-E but i was thinking of upgrading my giga-byte motherboard to PCI-E mobo. . . .

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The X800 is your man then m8 no doubt about it

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hm so you recommend i upgrade to PCI-E mobo. . .

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What chip you got. Main problem is you can only buy a PCI-E board for an AMD64 chip or the newer P4's

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i currently have the k8n pro with amd 64 3000+ and 1gb pc3200 and radeon 9550.

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would be worth a go if you fancied it :) The x800 will be an awesome card for the cash but it will push your budget over £200

Not gonna recommend the board upgrade but im also not gonna say do not do it.That choice is yours and yours alone :)

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hey right so i can get an x800 for AGP?? will it last me for future.

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Not seen for 150 notes im afraid,may be worth having a look around you may get one sub £200

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Yeah i have seen ones for 184 256mb x850s! agps. but just want to make sure iam buying a card thats dif gonna last me.

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lets face facts pretty much all games on the mkt now will run very well indeed on a 6600gt.The X850 is a very good card it will become out of date as everything in pc's do.But it will run the next gen games adequately for s couple or 3 years to come. There will always be something bigger and better

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thats very true, would you prefer nvidia or ati???