Hey guys, A friend of mine is looking to buy a new graphics card, he needs a PCI-e, with a budget of about £100, i know he wants an nVidia, but i am out of the loop at the moment so i thought i'd ask you guys Thanks!
youll be able to get a 7600gs for that, and maybe a 7600gt.. id say jsut go for that. get a 7600gt unless you can get a used 7900gt or 7900gs
Hey, I told him this and he gave me this link, whats the deal with the "512mb", seems wierd to me to be that cheap? Linky: http://www.aria.co.uk/ProductInfoComm.asp?ID=22353 Cheers
Its cheap because they put 512mbs on a card that can't take advantage of it. It's a marketing tactic to get people to pay a lot for a card that doesn't offer much performance advantage over a cheaper version of it with half the ram. The 7600GT 256 would easily outperform that because it has better memory(GDDR3 over GDDR2) and a better GPU core. The amount of memory isn't as important as the type(DDR, GDDR2, GDDR3, GDDR4) and the interface(64, 128, or 256-bit).
If he could stretch a little more he could get a 7900gs for under £120. They are excellent value. I'm getting at the end of the month!
by the way can anyone assist in explaining what is PCI-e-card???, i noticed that a lot of model with 1x, 16x .........???x, so which one is the best or good performance? and AGP card is them being outdated???? or? sorry....coz i out of the IT world so quite so time.........no broadband..... tyhanks
PCI, Peripheral Component Interconnect, the 1x 2x 4x 8x 16x you see is the bandwidth, or speed data is trandfered at. Each lane on the PCI slot has 4 Pins, so 1x has one lane, 2x has 2 lanes and so on till 16x. PCI transferes 100MB/s per pin. So as you can imagine, 16x is the fastest, so 16x is the best performance your gonna get. AGP (accelerated Graphics Port) cards are not as fast, as they have less pins (AGPx8)
In practice you won't see anywhere near saturation of a 16x PCI-e/8x AGP slot with a single card system. Don't fret.
hi, then how about SLi?? two card together in a MOBO, what that? so i need two monitor or haha, jus asking, then is AGP outdated??? so if i wan to buy new MOBO, look of PCI-e???
SLI is the use of 2 IDENTICLE cards in PCI-E x16 slots, the motherboard must support SLI for this to work. Essentially the 2 cards help take the strain off each other in high settings situations. You do not need to have two monitors. however you cun run two monitors together to increse the desktop space, even on a single card, but youll find it hard to find games that run at those kind of resolutions. and it will be piss anoying anyway because guess where the crosshair is. AGP is not really outdated, it is used mostly in SFF PC's, it is a cheaper solution if you want to run todays games at average settings. But if you want a new mobo then PCIx16 slots are really a must, if you want SLI you have to make sure its an SLI mobo, there are some cheap ones out there.
Hi, I'm the guy who was looking for the graphics card! Thanks for all the suggestions guys but can you put some links up to some sites selling them please. My budget isn't exactly £100 but its around £100 meaning il be able to stretch a little bit. Thanks! Dan
