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After christmas I will have about £120 - £150 to spend on a new graphics card and I was wondering which would be the best one to get.
I currently have a GeForce 5700LE which is pretty lame - I had to swap my 6800LE for it because HL2 wasn't working with that GPU for some reason.
Thanks.
I currently have a GeForce 5700LE which is pretty lame - I had to swap my 6800LE for it because HL2 wasn't working with that GPU for some reason.
Thanks.
After christmas I will have about £120 - £150 to spend on a new graphics card and I was wondering which would be the best one to get.
I currently have a GeForce 5700LE which is pretty lame - I had to swap my 6800LE for it because HL2 wasn't working with that GPU for some reason.
Thanks.
I currently have a GeForce 5700LE which is pretty lame - I had to swap my 6800LE for it because HL2 wasn't working with that GPU for some reason.
Thanks.
B.A.S.I.C wrote:
> After christmas I will have about £120 - £150 to spend on
> a new graphics card and I was wondering which would be the best one
> to get.
>
> I currently have a GeForce 5700LE which is pretty lame - I had to
> swap my 6800LE for it because HL2 wasn't working with that GPU for
> some reason.
>
> Thanks.
You can't really get a card better than yours for that sort of money or not at least from teh websites i just checked. What was up with the 6800? Did you contact nvidia and look on the valve forums and try different drivers?
> After christmas I will have about £120 - £150 to spend on
> a new graphics card and I was wondering which would be the best one
> to get.
>
> I currently have a GeForce 5700LE which is pretty lame - I had to
> swap my 6800LE for it because HL2 wasn't working with that GPU for
> some reason.
>
> Thanks.
You can't really get a card better than yours for that sort of money or not at least from teh websites i just checked. What was up with the 6800? Did you contact nvidia and look on the valve forums and try different drivers?
chippxero wrote:
>
> You can't really get a card better than yours for that sort of money
> or not at least from teh websites i just checked. What was up with
> the 6800? Did you contact nvidia and look on the valve forums and try
> different drivers?
The monitor kept switching onto standby - no signal or something. I tried everything (5 different drivers, 3 different tech supports, about a dozen forums, different monitor, etc) but nothing worked.
I've seen the Radeon 9800 for about £120 on a website, the name of which I can't remember. What similar cards are there.
EDIT:
You can get a Radeon 9800 from SR for £125.99 - That'll do me, at least this one is DirectX 9 - the 5700LE is only 8.5. Thanks anyway for your help.
>
> You can't really get a card better than yours for that sort of money
> or not at least from teh websites i just checked. What was up with
> the 6800? Did you contact nvidia and look on the valve forums and try
> different drivers?
The monitor kept switching onto standby - no signal or something. I tried everything (5 different drivers, 3 different tech supports, about a dozen forums, different monitor, etc) but nothing worked.
I've seen the Radeon 9800 for about £120 on a website, the name of which I can't remember. What similar cards are there.
EDIT:
You can get a Radeon 9800 from SR for £125.99 - That'll do me, at least this one is DirectX 9 - the 5700LE is only 8.5. Thanks anyway for your help.
B.A.S.I.C wrote:
> The monitor kept switching onto standby - no signal or something. I
> tried everything (5 different drivers, 3 different tech supports,
> about a dozen forums, different monitor, etc) but nothing worked.
> I've seen the Radeon 9800 for about £120 on a website, the name
> of which I can't remember. What similar cards are there.
Shame you couldn't get it working. A 9800 is only a better than your card at the moment really. But if your going for one try to get a 9800 pro it's about the same as a Geforce FX 5900 XT. But if i was you i'd try to go for a 256mb card if you can get one for the price.
> The monitor kept switching onto standby - no signal or something. I
> tried everything (5 different drivers, 3 different tech supports,
> about a dozen forums, different monitor, etc) but nothing worked.
> I've seen the Radeon 9800 for about £120 on a website, the name
> of which I can't remember. What similar cards are there.
Shame you couldn't get it working. A 9800 is only a better than your card at the moment really. But if your going for one try to get a 9800 pro it's about the same as a Geforce FX 5900 XT. But if i was you i'd try to go for a 256mb card if you can get one for the price.
B.A.S.I.C wrote:
> The monitor kept switching onto standby - no signal or something. I
> tried everything (5 different drivers, 3 different tech supports,
> about a dozen forums, different monitor, etc) but nothing worked.
My mate had a similar problem. What's happening is that your graphics card supports a very high refresh rate and games will often try and use this. However if the refresh rate is pushed beyond the limits of your monitor it will go into standby. You need to go into your motherboard bios settings and change a monitor or graphics card setting so that it wont go higher than your monitor refresh rate.
> The monitor kept switching onto standby - no signal or something. I
> tried everything (5 different drivers, 3 different tech supports,
> about a dozen forums, different monitor, etc) but nothing worked.
My mate had a similar problem. What's happening is that your graphics card supports a very high refresh rate and games will often try and use this. However if the refresh rate is pushed beyond the limits of your monitor it will go into standby. You need to go into your motherboard bios settings and change a monitor or graphics card setting so that it wont go higher than your monitor refresh rate.