Help, before I break the thing...

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » June 10th, 2009, 10:47

The Shutting Downs wrote:Anyone suggest a decent (but not expensive) card to go with this?

Budget?

Post by **Joose** » June 10th, 2009, 16:49

Dog Pants wrote:Bad Joose, giving dodgy tech advice. I think you should make him buy you a new card

I already gave him 2 gig of ram!
The correct kind of ram too!

Baliame wrote:Budget?

The £50 range was discussed earlier.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » June 10th, 2009, 16:57

assuming no 3d gaming at all, http://www.ebuyer.com/product/156236 or the like.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/152940 -ish for light gaming

Post by **deject** » June 10th, 2009, 17:01

re: 4670
http://www.guru3d.com/article/ati-radeo ... 0-review/8

Should be OK for playing 1-2 year old games at 1280x1024, 0xAA. Not bad for ultra budget graphics.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » June 10th, 2009, 17:06

I even get the right cards when guessing

Post by **deject** » June 10th, 2009, 17:06

Dr. kitteny berk wrote: I even get the right cards when guessing

Post by **HereComesPete** » June 10th, 2009, 21:35

Ultra budget? Buy an old 8800 gt/gts from ebuyer if you've got a half way decent psu. Seen boxed 'as new' ones for about £60.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » June 10th, 2009, 21:48

HereComesPete wrote:Ultra budget? Buy an old 8800 gt/gts from ebuyer if you've got a half way decent psu. Seen boxed 'as new' ones for about £60.

I'd assume not a halfway decent PSU, and if not gaming and on a low-spec machine, a fairly high end card like that could potentially double running costs.

Post by **HereComesPete** » June 10th, 2009, 21:51

I was offering an alternative. I'd ask joose, but we know how helpful he is!

Post by **deject** » June 10th, 2009, 22:16

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:
I'd assume not a halfway decent PSU, and if not gaming and on a low-spec machine, a fairly high end card like that could potentially double running costs.

Also, I bet the 4670 runs a lot cooler than an 8800GT.

The Shutting Downs · Post by **The Shutting Downs** » June 11th, 2009, 20:18

Okay, I has a 9400 card, so monitor is up.

But now I need to reinstall windows and the cd drive has stopped working, so I'm still on the borrowed laptop.

I'll keep the updates coming in.

Post by **HereComesPete** » June 11th, 2009, 20:26

Sounds like its shitting bits and soon it'll be magic smoke.

Any recourse to insurance types to try and claim anything back? Or is that more premium than it's worth?

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » June 11th, 2009, 20:51

HereComesPete wrote:Sounds like its shitting bits and soon it'll be magic smoke.

Any recourse to insurance types to try and claim anything back? Or is that more premium than it's worth?