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| The_Doc |
  Posted 5th Sep 2005 5:54pm |
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I have recently bought HL2 and well it doesn't seem to like my intergrated 128mb Graphics card... no suprise there.
So i have decided to do the smart thing and go buy a new one, but i'm not sure what card to get. It needs to be about £180 at the most and be able to run HL2, Battlefield 2 etc...
Oh yea... needs to be PCI-E 
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Posted 5th Sep 2005 6:31pm |  |
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6800's start at £130 ish. 6800GT was £150 a month or so back. No idea what a decent 'this years card' would cost... apart from probably much more
My standard 6800 runs BF2 no problems. Well except for the fact that its a generally buggy game anyway
Ok I was only looking at the AGP versions but PCI-E aren't much different in price. |
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| tagmaster |
Posted 5th Sep 2005 6:33pm |
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Ohhh if u got PCI-E (i envy u  ) u can buy the low budget technology that ATi n Nvidia has delivered. For Nvidia is TurboCache and for Ati is HyperMemory, and their prices is very low.
Nvidia TurboCache
ATi Hyper memory
And by the way i have heard that TurboCache is better one because it takes memory from RAM and swap file, and ATi Hyper Memory only takes it from RAM.
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| DG |
Posted 5th Sep 2005 8:04pm | |
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| Quoting tagmaster | Ohhh if u got PCI-E (i envy u ) u can buy the low budget technology that ATi n Nvidia has delivered. For Nvidia is TurboCache and for Ati is HyperMemory, and their prices is very low.
Nvidia TurboCache
ATi Hyper memory
And by the way i have heard that TurboCache is better one because it takes memory from RAM and swap file, and ATi Hyper Memory only takes it from RAM.
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Basically if these cards take away chunks of your RAM, you're about as bad off as you were with your integrated card. Had best take a bit lower end card than one that sucks the life out of your RAM. |
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| The_Doc |
Posted 5th Sep 2005 8:19pm |
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In that case would it be ideal to buy a extra 512mb RAM, so that i have 1Gb RAM.
I also need to get a external HDD, as i only have a 40Gb HDD and well with all the games i want, i think that i will need another one |
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| tagmaster |
Posted 5th Sep 2005 9:22pm |
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| Quoting DG | | Quoting tagmaster | Ohhh if u got PCI-E (i envy u ) u can buy the low budget technology that ATi n Nvidia has delivered. For Nvidia is TurboCache and for Ati is HyperMemory, and their prices is very low.
Nvidia TurboCache
ATi Hyper memory
And by the way i have heard that TurboCache is better one because it takes memory from RAM and swap file, and ATi Hyper Memory only takes it from RAM.
New-egg
Here u can find good deals |
Basically if these cards take away chunks of your RAM, you're about as bad off as you were with your integrated card. Had best take a bit lower end card than one that sucks the life out of your RAM. |
Ehmm no not that way, they come with memory integrated and u can configure how much they can get from ur sustem.
From the reviews i have saw, the result (based on their price) of benchmarking in games, are amazing. |
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| timgonebad202 |
Posted 14th Sep 2005 9:23pm |
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you can always get a newer, more expensve card like the 6800 or 7800 but i currently have only a geforce 5200, i can still run HL2 with all the graphics settings on the highest they go and still have no lag at all. the same is true for BF2 and Doom 3:ROE. i personally would say not to go with the newest high-end card, instead get a slightly older one and put the left over money towards more RAM or a faster processor (AMD of course). |
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