Graphics card

stroudy1 · Post by **stroudy1** » December 28th, 2006, 19:49

Looking for a bit of advice, looking to upgrade my graphics card so COD doesn't jerk when im online! Can only afford to go up to a 256 i reckon at the mo anyone got any thoughts/suggestions??
Thanking you in advance

Post by **deject** » December 28th, 2006, 19:58

A) What's your monetary budget?

II) What kind of graphics slot do you have?

3) Do you have a preference between ATI and nVidia?

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » December 28th, 2006, 20:08

7) What card do you have at the moment?

1011) What CPU and RAM do you got?

stroudy1 · Post by **stroudy1** » December 28th, 2006, 20:08

bout £50, no idea what graphics slot i have a phillips iqon pc if that helps! no preference for either!!

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » December 28th, 2006, 20:11

stroudy1 wrote:i have a phillips iqon pc if that helps!

If you can be more specific (there's probably many types of this particular brand of machine) we should be able to help.

stroudy1 · Post by **stroudy1** » December 28th, 2006, 20:18

its 512 ram, 2.6ghz dual pentium processor umm thats all bout i can remember im afraid!bit of a techno phob!

stroudy1 · Post by **stroudy1** » December 28th, 2006, 20:49

the card i currently have is an intel extreme graphics not!(not so extreme tho)

The Incredible... · Post by **The Incredible...** » December 30th, 2006, 22:39

i was thinking about upgrading too

i have a 3.2 ghz amd athlon cou and 1024 mb of ram

currently have an nvidia xfx 6600gt card (128mb), think it's agp

pixie pie · Post by **pixie pie** » December 31st, 2006, 13:23

stroudy1 wrote:the card i currently have is an intel extreme graphics not!(not so extreme tho)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this sounds like onboard graphics?

And I'm willing to take a big guess at there being an AGP slot, unless its less than a year or year and a half old..?

Post by **Dog Pants** » December 31st, 2006, 13:32

If you post the model number (or possibly even serial number) of the machine then we can probably get the exact specs off the intarweb.

Post by **deject** » December 31st, 2006, 14:14

pixie pie wrote:Correct me if I'm wrong, but this sounds like onboard graphics?

that is indeed correct. that is also why technically Intel is the largest graphics provider. I think their integrated graphics account for about 60% of all graphics chips sold. Of course, this includes corporate PC and such.

stroudy1 · Post by **stroudy1** » December 31st, 2006, 20:39

Thanks for all your help guys, i have discussed the matter with Mr Woo Elephant Yea! and have purchased an ATI radeon 256mb graphics card....it did need an AGP slot. Its not the latest but it seems ok its an 9600xt. and got it for £40. should be better than the onboard shite i have anyhow! Thanks again

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » January 1st, 2007, 3:20

should be a good balance, the 9600XTs are pretty good cards from what I remember

Woo Elephant Yeah · Post by **Woo Elephant Yeah** » January 1st, 2007, 22:11

stroudy1 wrote:I have discussed the matter with Mr Woo Elephant Yeah and have purchased an ATI radeon 256mb graphics card....it did need an AGP slot.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » January 1st, 2007, 22:13

Woo Elephant Yeah wrote:

+10 Kudos
Level up!

MrGreen · Post by **MrGreen** » January 5th, 2007, 14:36

The Incredible... wrote:i was thinking about upgrading too

i have a 3.2 ghz amd athlon

Not so much... You have a Athlon 64 3200+ which is at 2.0Ghz Stock, or you have a scarily good CPU and a OK GPU.

Hehulk · Post by **Hehulk** » January 5th, 2007, 16:32

MrGreen wrote:Not so much... You have a Athlon 64 3200+ which is at 2.0Ghz Stock, or you have a scarily good CPU and a OK GPU.

To stick my nose in, while the 3200+ isn't a bad CPU (I'm still using a 3000+), but isn't scarily good. That honour in my mind falls to the AMD FX processors and the Intel QX stuff (and some of the E series stuff)

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » January 5th, 2007, 16:47

to be honest most of the QX stuff is what FX was 18 months ago - way overkill for people with big wallets, little wangs and some desperation for performance they'll never use.

Put it this way, i'm Folding, Ripping a dvd to divx, Playing CoH, doing photoshoppery and burning DVDs with no real performance issues and i'm only on an e6600