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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

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?

7) What card do you have at the moment?

1011) What CPU and RAM do you got?

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

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.

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

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

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

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..?

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Woo Elephant Yeah wrote:

+10 Kudos
Level up!

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.

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)

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