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Posted: June 10th, 2009, 10:47
by Baliame
The Shutting Downs wrote:Anyone suggest a decent (but not expensive) card to go with this?
Budget?

Posted: June 10th, 2009, 16:49
by Joose
Dog Pants wrote:Bad Joose, giving dodgy tech advice. I think you should make him buy you a new card :P
I already gave him 2 gig of ram!
The correct kind of ram too!
Baliame wrote:Budget?
The £50 range was discussed earlier.

Posted: June 10th, 2009, 16:57
by Dr. kitteny berk
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

Posted: June 10th, 2009, 17:01
by deject
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.

Posted: June 10th, 2009, 17:06
by Dr. kitteny berk
:likesitall: I even get the right cards when guessing :P

Posted: June 10th, 2009, 17:06
by deject
Dr. kitteny berk wrote::likesitall: I even get the right cards when guessing :P
:lol:

Posted: June 10th, 2009, 21:35
by HereComesPete
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.

Posted: June 10th, 2009, 21:48
by Dr. kitteny berk
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.

Posted: June 10th, 2009, 21:51
by HereComesPete
I was offering an alternative. I'd ask joose, but we know how helpful he is!

Posted: June 10th, 2009, 22:16
by deject
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.

Posted: June 11th, 2009, 20:18
by The Shutting Downs
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.

Posted: June 11th, 2009, 20:26
by HereComesPete
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?

Posted: June 11th, 2009, 20:51
by Dr. kitteny berk
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?
:above: