Darren
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I've got hold of an oldish P4 Dell pc which i am going to use for playing few games such as Fifa and also the odd hd film. I think the processor should be able to handle this but will obviously need an upgraded graphics card.
Can someone point me the direction of some suitable ones? I think it has PCI and PCI-E slots free.
Cheers
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deano87
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You may find the HDD needs an upgrade too if it's very old 
No idea about graphics cards, sorry.
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FruitBooTeR
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Can get Nvidia 8 and 9 series for decent prices now and they would be up to the job
Check on ebuyer, dabbs etc
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Daveskater
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You could get a GeForce 8800GT 512MB on ebuyer.com for a good price, I think I bought mine at just over £100.
You will probably need a new power supply, though, as normally manufactured PC's like Dell's etc will have a PSU just powerful enough to run it, to save money.
Any good graphics card has quite high power requirements these days. I can personally recommend the Corsair VX-550W to run the 8800GT 512MB.
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Darren
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seems i only have an agp slot.... would this be the best i can get?
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=224689
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Russ
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yeah probably
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_Allan_
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I'd agree, I'd go for the Sapphire one.
http://www.advancetec.co.uk/acatalog/Sapphire_ATI.html
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Daveskater
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quote:
Originally posted by Darren
seems i only have an agp slot.... would this be the best i can get?
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=224689
Yeah, that or a GeForce 7950GT are about as high as it gets for AGP. The 7950GT is really hard to get hold of though, last time I checked.
You can get the ATI card for £55 here: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/140585
Numberwang!
Originally posted by AlunJ
I like you Dave, you are a man of men
Originally Whatapp'd by Neo
Dave's maybe capable of a drive-by cuddle
Look at my pictures
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_Allan_
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He needs AGP Dave
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/152423 
[Edited on 13-12-2008 by _Allan_]
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Daveskater
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Whoops I thought I posted the AGP one 
Cheers
Numberwang!
Originally posted by AlunJ
I like you Dave, you are a man of men
Originally Whatapp'd by Neo
Dave's maybe capable of a drive-by cuddle
Look at my pictures
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