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Title: Best pc vid card around £100
Post by: sgmypod on March 08, 2009, 10:02:19 PM

Need advice as above Best pc vid card around £100..am confused been a while since a bought a new one..have a 1950pro at moment

Title: Re: Best pc vid card around £100
Post by: Roobubba on March 08, 2009, 10:08:44 PM

If you can find yourself an ATI 4850 in budget, go for it (I doubt you'll get one for 100 smackers). Failing that, the 4830 is a great card for the price.

Tomshardware have a top cards in various price brackets - it's sadly only the US one, but you can extrapolate the info from there coupled with a couple of browser windows open with your favourite UK suppliers for price comparisons...

The link is: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/geforce-gtx-radeon,review-31515.html

I'm not in favour of Nvidia over ATI or vice versa - I don't care which company makes my card, but the price/performance ratio is definitely important!

Roo

Title: Re: Best pc vid card around £100
Post by: Denim n Leather on March 09, 2009, 12:13:02 AM

ATI cards are GREAT.

Title: Re: Best pc vid card around £100
Post by: MrBump on March 09, 2009, 09:25:45 AM

What BUS are you using?  PCIe?  AGP?

Title: Re: Best pc vid card around £100
Post by: _tom_ on March 09, 2009, 12:59:03 PM

About this time last year I got a Leadtek 8800GT 512MB for around that price and its been really good for me :) I use this computer for gaming as well as 3D modelling/animation.

I guess you can get better for the money now though?

Title: Re: Best pc vid card around £100
Post by: sgmypod on March 10, 2009, 09:00:24 AM

have a pcie socket...found a a bargain of a 980gt+ super with 1g of memory for the £100....can get gta4 to 3/4's for full needs 1.4gig *L*

Title: Re: Best pc vid card around £100
Post by: Davey on March 10, 2009, 06:54:49 PM

GeForce 9600GT imo ... my bro has one and plays everything and has a really nice picture.. on some things works much better than my 8800gtx

Title: Re: Best pc vid card around £100
Post by: Roobubba on March 11, 2009, 01:33:01 PM

Quote from: Davey on March 10, 2009, 06:54:49 PM

GeForce 9600GT imo ... my bro has one and plays everything and has a really nice picture.. on some things works much better than my 8800gtx

For 100 quid, as the OP has found, you can pick up a 1GB 9800GT which will wipe the floor with a 9600GT (well, be better than it, at least!). I think the ATI 4730 is probably a little more, but I haven't checked prices of these, recently.

Roo