Graphics Best Card for the money?

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  1. ColdArmor

    ColdArmor What's a Dremel?

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    Games I will be playing are:
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    UT2k4

    I'm thinking of getting an FX5200? Try to keep it as cheap as possible. I don't nessesarly want to play them at highest settings. this is basically going to be a tamparary card for a fe months until I save up more money.
     
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  2. mime genocide

    mime genocide What's a Dremel?

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    id get the ultra ver.
     
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  3. jaguarking11

    jaguarking11 Peterbilt-strong

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    the ultra will cost. If you can get a 5700regular for cheep or in the very least find a 128bit 5200 as the 64bit one is totaly cripled.
     
    jaguarking11, 3 Sep 2004
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  4. tmod

    tmod What's a Dremel?

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    Honestly, if its only temporary, I'd look to get a used card, you could probably get one twice as powerful for the same price.
     
    tmod, 3 Sep 2004
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  5. fof gwada

    fof gwada What's a Dremel?

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    radeon 9800 pro
     
    fof gwada, 3 Sep 2004
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  6. jaguarking11

    jaguarking11 Peterbilt-strong

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    How about this?
    Yes its a g4ti 4200 but it will perform better than the 5200 and its about 80bux
    Or this one Yes its a 5200 but it is 128bit so it should give you better performance.
     
    jaguarking11, 3 Sep 2004
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  7. WILD9

    WILD9 Been here aaaaages

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    what about a radeon 9600 pro / xt, it shoul outperform most of the cards mentioned here except the 9800 pro
     
    WILD9, 3 Sep 2004
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  8. drinn

    drinn What's a Dremel?

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    Club 3D Radeon X300 256Mb DDR - I think that this card is good. (I have no experiences of it, but it sounds good) The prize of this card is ~150 EUR in Finland.

    I have now GeForce 4 Ti 4400 128Mb graphic card and I have 100 FPS in CS 1.6. Not tested in Doom3 or CS:S Beta.. UT2004 worked also well. This card cost 200 EUR about 2 years ago when I bought this..
     
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  9. TMM

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    Radeon 9550XT to tide you over untill you can afford something better
     
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  10. Tim S

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    X300 is native PCI-Express - it's ludicrously overpriced and slower than a Radeon 9600 XT.
     
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  11. ColdArmor

    ColdArmor What's a Dremel?

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    ColdArmor, 4 Sep 2004
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  12. Froggy

    Froggy What's a Dremel?

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    Ok what card do you have now? What expantion slots does your motherboard take?
     
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  13. ColdArmor

    ColdArmor What's a Dremel?

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    I am buildinga new computer, my mobo has PCI Slots open and an AGP 4x/8x slot.. the video card is the only thing I do not have atm.
     
    ColdArmor, 4 Sep 2004
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