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"Bang for buck"

Hello, its just another graphics card question.
I'm looking to spend 100 quid max., can you recommend a good budget card, with good performance for its price. I aren't too fussed weather its radeon or Nvidia.

Please don't tell me to save up for a better one, because even if i do save up i can't bring my tight ass self to* spending more than 100 quid on a card.

Cheers.

Edit: mistake corrected

Or splash out....hmmmm... 860fps at 800x600x32-bit :D

DiscoDexy wrote:
> Where can you get a 9800 Pro for £130 ?
> Cheapest ive seen is £160. . .

*cough*overclockers*cough*

taka-Q wrote:
> Perhaps not, as Radeon is the type, not the make like nVidia. Your
> looking for ATI there.

Good eye, common mistake though.

Discodexy wrote:
>Where can you get a 9800 Pro for £130 ?
>Cheapest ive seen is £160. . .

My question still stands though ;)

DiscoDexy wrote:
> I aren't too fussed
> weather its radeon or Nvidia.

> Edit: mistake corrected

Perhaps not, as Radeon is the type, not the make like nVidia. Your looking for ATI there.

Where can you get a 9800 Pro for £130 ?
Cheapest ive seen is £160. . .

I know you don't wanna hear this, but if you can manage £130 you could get a 9800 Pro and overclock it to a 9800 XT.

Considering manufacturers consider 99% properly made components acceptible, its a bit rubbish really.

For every 100,000 they make, 1000 are faulty. There will always be a component that fails and always be problems, no matter what you buy, be is 9200, 9600, 9800, 15000, 21000, GeForce F4394329X Master Chief Pro XT 7800, etc.

DiscoDexy wrote:
> cookie monster wrote:
>
> Ive seen a few 9800 problems. Everything cant be perfect, i had a
> graphics card that packed up after 2 months, its just one of those
> things.
>
> What card was that :P ?

A 9800SE AIW.

*sob* I loved that card.

cookie monster wrote:

> Ive seen a few 9800 problems. Everything cant be perfect, i had a
> graphics card that packed up after 2 months, its just one of those
> things.

What card was that :P ?

DiscoDexy wrote:
> danieldone wrote:
> the reason you only see bad things in forums, is cos people only
> ever
> use the forums to talk about problems... *slaps disco*
>
> Also true - But you never see 9800 or 9700 problems...

Ive seen a few 9800 problems. Everything cant be perfect, i had a graphics card that packed up after 2 months, its just one of those things.