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"Best Graphics card?"

What's the best 'budget' graphics card?

(ie. -£100.)

Are the ATI RADEON 9600's good? Especially for FPS's, like Return to Castle Wolfenstien... Nothing amazing, but good for online gaming anyway.

Or are nVidia the best?

You usncrew and take the old one out and slot the new one in, you'll need to push it a little to get it firmly in, but you shouldn't need to push excessively. Then you screw in the card where there's the little screw shaped hole. It'll be obvious once you have a look inside.

Bob_The_Moose wrote:
> You usncrew and take the old one out and slot the new one in, you'll
> need to push it a little to get it firmly in, but you shouldn't need
> to push excessively. Then you screw in the card where there's the
> little screw shaped hole. It'll be obvious once you have a look
> inside.

Good good XD.

Mmm... Buying it tomorow which means I should have it by the weekend...

Hahahaha... Ph34r me and my h1gh fr4m3r4te on SoF II Gold... Mwahahahahahahaha, the world is mine.

Sorry for l33t but I felt it appropriate.

What have you got in there at the moment? Sorry if you've already said but I haven't been following.

Hahahaha... The quality of Dell.

They gave me an...

Intel(R) 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics Controller


Quality eh?

No comment.

Lol...

Damn DELL and they're cheap ass pricing that goes down every day...

It was like.. £800 with an LCD screen and they didn't give me an LCD screen. Evil buggers. It's now £600.

But I guess I got a whole load of upgrades (2x memory - 120GB) (2x RAM - 256 MB) etc... And I printer. Which scans and copies.

So I don't feel hard done.

Anyone who owns a PC should know how to upgrade the machine.

I mean, even if you buy the damn thing from some box-shifter like PC World (or any of those horrible places) you should at least take the side off and have a look whats going on.

It really isn't rocket science. If this was the case, people like the above mentioned PCworld wouldn't be able to charge like £20 to fit a stick of RAM.

If a few wires and PCB board scares you too much - then f**koff and buy a console.

I have a ATI 9200 se low profile and it runs most new games on full
settings!, so the 9600 or 9600 xt will be ok.

Notorious Biggles wrote:
> Messy wrote:
> Thanks spike, you just saved me £20...
>
> And do all computers have AGP slots? Mines relatively new...
> But has an onboard graphics card. From DELL, so it should have an
> AGP
> x8 slot right?
>
> What was it again? A Dell Dimension 2400? Because if so, I would have
> a wee look inside the case before you buy the card as there is no
> mention of an AGP slot on the Dimension 2400 specs on the Dell
> website. But there is for other models, which is a bit worrying.
>
> To know what to look for
> [URL]http://www2.abit.com.tw/page/uk/motherboard/motherboard_detail.php?pMODEL_NAME=NF7-S&fMTYPE=Socket+A[/URL]
> and then click on the picture of a motherboard.
>
> Now then, see to the left of the fan there is a brown slot? That is
> an AGP slot. The five white ones are PCI ones. You should check that
> your PC has one of the brown ones. If not, you would have to consider
> getting a PCI graphics card, which isn't as good as AGP.


F*** WHY DIDN'T I SEE THIS???

F***!!! I just installed the RAM, and it works... Yay. But, unfortunately, I had already decided to order the Connect 3D 9600 XT for an all inclusive (VAT + P&P) £120. But, f*** me, I now understand what AGP means. And what PCI means. And what my PC doesn't have.

And why I have a huge problem, since I just got a message saying "Thank you, your order has now been shipped."

And now I don't know what to do.

F***.