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Yo yo yo,
Im starting to get more interested in PC games and would like to play
mor but the bad thing is that I have a Dell Dimension 2400 and it comes with an Intergrated 64MB Graphics card and i have been told that I can only buy a PCI card or something...
Could you recommend me a good one that would play games such as Half Life 2, Doom 3 etc for a roughly cheap price.

Cheers
Infinite

haha...
yeh the SR one is also the best i could find

smv wrote:
> He needs a PCI card, not AGP. Choice is somewhat limited by that.

It's a shame some members don't read the posts properly :P

I can't find any that are better than the one SR sell.

cookie monster wrote:
> If you buy a card that chip has recommended you will be disappointed.
> You can probably get an nVidia 6800 something for a little over
> £140, that will be a better investment, i don't think ATI do an
> AGP X700 but you might want to see what the options there are.

He needs a PCI card, not AGP. Choice is somewhat limited by that.

Infinite wrote:
> Cheers for the help Chippxero,
> yeh i think im going to start saving to buy the one from SR.
> it looks decent for a PCI card.
>
> Cheers
> Infinite

If you buy a card that chip has recommended you will be disappointed. You can probably get an nVidia 6800 something for a little over £140, that will be a better investment, i don't think ATI do an AGP X700 but you might want to see what the options there are.

Cheers for the help Chippxero,
yeh i think im going to start saving to buy the one from SR.
it looks decent for a PCI card.

Cheers
Infinite

Meh.

I had the same Dell PC... Threw it out, spent 400 on a decent rig and I was much happier. 256 RAM, 2.6/2.8 Prescott... Get a new mobo, 2x 512 of PC3200 RAM, and possibly a new processor and hard-drive - DELL HDD's generally brake as soon as you try to move them...

Just some game on the Mac. As I said, you'll laugh at it. But it's still technically competent for modern-ish games.

See i only have a Geforce ti4600 X4 AGP 128mb card and i can run everything very well and i got that card about 2 years ago if not a bit longer.

Which game?

Actually, the Radeon 9200 w/ 32MB is capable of running a well detailed 3D game with no dropped frame rate.

I won't name the game because, you know, you'll laugh.

cookie monster wrote:
> Yep, i'd go with those if you want to play minesweeper, possibly
> freecell.

How helpful of you :P

Suggest a better PCI card at least so he doesn't get something naff.