Cavey
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Registered: 11th Nov 02
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Basically need a new graphics card because Doom3 needs a friggin NASA computer to run it.
Any suggestions, looking at £100 max really.
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dave17
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Registered: 3rd Sep 02
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ul struggle to get a real good GFX card for £100 mate. i reccomend looking up Radeon 9800 PRO. its wot i got an it rocks 
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dave17
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Registered: 3rd Sep 02
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this looks alright mate:
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=55190
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Cavey
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Yeah, been looking at that one. Seems all right, having a quick scan on ebay.
What makes should i be looking for ? or should stay away from....
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dave17
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well basically u want either Radeon Or GeForce. but these are only the manufacturers of the actaul chip. I have a card made by Sapphire, but to be honest they dont vary that much as in to stay away from one if ur useing a popular site like ebuyer.com they wont have crap on there, beware on ebay tho, u could pick up some shite on there 
heres mine:
Conclusion
Obviously, the RADEON 9800 PRO 256MB and the GeForce FX 5900 Ultra are the most powerful accelerators for today. But the examination of some or other NVIDIA's manipulations in the tests might make the RADEON 9800 PRO a leader. The only thing that I don't understand is why to pay so much for unnecessary 128 MB since they give a very small margin.
I understand that it was discussed a lot in the Beyond3D, and ATI cried that the game developers hid the anisotropy too deeply... But still, it's very unpleasant to see such problems with trilinear filtering and only in this game.
As to the card itself, I must say that it noticeably heats up. When tested outside the PC case, the sink reached 70-75 degrees C after a 10-hour operation in 3D! Imagine how hot the insides would be! That is why if your PC case doesn't have ventilation, you can easily damage the card and some of the components inside the PC case!
In general, the Sapphire Atlantis RADEON 9800 PRO 256MB Ultimate Edition can offer you:
Very high speed in 3D graphics, it's almost a leader in 3D;
Finished technological solution with DX9 support;
No noise from the fan (however, you might need proper ventilation in the PC case, i.e. it might need installation of fans);
Pleasure from such an attractive appearance :-).
I payed about £180 from overclockers.co.uk
[Edited on 23-08-2004 by Dave17]
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Richie
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Registered: 3rd Dec 02
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DRIBBLE
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PaulW
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EWWWW Ebuyer 
hmmm there are some good ones but there not great
Radeon 9600XT can be got for under £100 now, but there being phased out for the cheaper 9550 cards. Little slower than the 9600 equivelant,m but quite overclockable 
Personally I wouldnt bother with Nvidia at the mo, none of there cards are anything special & are raped in benchm,arks to similiar priced ATI cards!
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DAYZEE
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Radeon 9800 Pro 128Mb is the best bang for buck card at the moment without a doubt. Overclockers have a Sapphire one for £140, for the performance you'll get thats nothing.
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PaulW
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One thing too though if your going to pay the extra £60 (added VAT), you can soft-mod the 9800 PRO to a 9800XT, by flashing the XT bios to the card.
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dave17
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quote:
Originally posted by Richie
DRIBBLE
that is shite, they charge u so much extra for that cheap plastic tat of a cooling system!!
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Cybermonkey
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if you want the dogs danglies now, forget ATi, its gonna take them years to catch up to the new Geforce 6800's.
http://www.nvidia.com/page/geforce6.html
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PaulW
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the X800's are already performing better than the nvidia 6800's 
only thing the 6800's have tho which ati dont is SLI when connected to a PCI Express slot
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Trotty
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Registered: 22nd Feb 01
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I'm sooo out of touch with all the malarkey these days
Is a GeForce FX 5800 128mb (I think?) any good?
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PaulW
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Registered: 26th Jan 03
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the FX cards are complete cack - overpriced & not very powerful.
My old Ti4200 can keep up with & beat a FX 5600 with ease, and my card is 3 years old!
ATi are good, for the same price as a 5800 you can get an ATi card which will be around 30%+ faster than the FX equivelant.
Don't go for Lite or SE tho, there not too good.
9800-PRO for about £140, then soft-mod it to an XT and you effectivly have a 9800-XT for half the cost
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Richie
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Registered: 3rd Dec 02
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quote:
Originally posted by Dave17
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Originally posted by Richie
DRIBBLE
that is shite, they charge u so much extra for that cheap plastic tat of a cooling system!!
Its actually about £30 deerer than an OEM card and the heatsink/fan combo works an absolute treat. Overclocks a dream.
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--Dave--
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i love my 9800 Pro. Does the business beautifully
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