What cheap graphics cards can you recommend?

Something decent, but budget-friendly?

What cheap graphics cards can you recommend?
Nvidia 9000 series coming out later this month





well its supposed to be


its also "supposed" to be twice as fast as the leading graphics card at the moment





cant wait... budget card i would say Nvidia 8800gts gaming one


or Nvidia 8600 if your tight but i would have to say keep to the Nvidia 8800 or higher if you want top of the range
Reply:how much do you have to spend? and do you want play high end games? its all well and good spending £250 + but if you're not gonna use it then whats the point. need more details really.
Reply:hi mate


budget cards are normally sub £100 cards and got that theres a massive selction to choose from


i personally like the nvidia geforce 7 series cards such as the Inno3D GeForce 7600GS 256MB PCI-Express graphics card from http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/Sear... is a brilllliant card for its low price and it also has some good specs including a 400mhz core clock and 256mb of gddr memory running at 667mhz


theres a better model of this chip in the shape of the XFX GeForce 7600GT 256Mb XXX edition PCI-Express graphics card from http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/Sear... has a more powerful 562mhz core clock and a 800mhz effective memory speed,this is probally the best mid range nvidia gaming card


as for ati radeon cards theres also a few very good cards to choose from,i personally recommend the radeon X1950PRO 256Mb PCI-Express graphics card from http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/Sear... is a awesome card with some amazing specifications


it has a core clock of 580mhz and 256mb of gddr3 ram running at 1400mhz,however what makes this better than the others is the pixel pipelines,these are rendering units which help the card produce the 3d effects we all see in games,the geforce 7600gs and gt have 12 pixel pipelines,but the radeon X1950PRO blows them both into submission with a awesome 36 pixel pipelines


finally the other ati recommendation si the amazing Sapphire 2600XT 256Mb PCI-Experss graphics card from http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/Sear... is one of the new breed of direct x 10 graphic cards and if you have a vista enabled p.c then this is your card


and the specifications are amazing too,with a core clock of 800mhz and 256mb of gddr3 memory running at 1400mhz this makes for some awesome gaming


were the above three cards use pixel pipelines this card use the new "stream processes" which are basically graphic processing units capable of pretty well anything including vertex,shading and all kinds of rendering


this card uses a decent 120 stream processes and considering the nvidia 8800gtx uses just 8 more stream processes and costs £300 more this makes this card a excellent buy


all these cards are extremely good and very good gaming cards,and all are well below the £100 budget,however if you give me a specific type of game you prefer to play i will try to find you a ideal card


i hope this helps however any problems let me know


good luck mate !
Reply:If you can spare about $250, then the 8800GT. Its faster and cheaper than the 8800GTS. The only thing better now is the 8800 GTX until the 9xxx series comes out. Its even better than ATI's flagship X2900XT





http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/10/29/g...
Reply:Depends on your PC if its was built in the last 2 years then its should have a PCI Express x16 slot if its older like mine then you'll need a AGP x8 graphics card





PCI Express x16 Card:





The Brand New XFX GeForce 8600GT - 256MB DDR3 ( £74.82 )





AGP 8x Card:





ATI Radeon X1650 Pro - 512MB GDDR3 ( £41.70 )