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Posted by parakeet on Sat Jan 8th at 2:01pm 2005

Im looking for the range for 50-70 $$ and i would like to know whats the average , whats a deal ,& whats a ripoff in this price area for the USA.
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Posted by Myrk- on Sat Jan 8th at 2:08pm 2005

Nothing decent in that price range. Save up another $30 then your talking better stuff. [addsig]



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Posted by Kage_Prototype on Sat Jan 8th at 2:08pm 2005

You're not going to get much with that amount.
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Posted by parakeet on Sat Jan 8th at 2:12pm 2005

hmm ive got more... and i might be willing to spend more
right now i have 130 dollars saved in meh little wallet, but i would like to spend around 45$-60 or more on warhammer
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Posted by parakeet on Sat Jan 8th at 2:55pm 2005

My current video card is an Nvidia Geoforce 2 MX/MX 400 64 mg Memory
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Posted by Spartan on Sat Jan 8th at 3:29pm 2005

I just recently bough a 256mb AGP Geforce FX5200 for $125. Its a good card so far. I recommend you have atleast 512mb of ram though if you want use the card to its full power. [addsig]



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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Jan 8th at 3:31pm 2005

i think the better question is, where do you live geographically. not your local address please.

then assuming you live in the US we can point you to sites like pricewatch

with this website, you can look up your own video card without the need of embarrassing yourself (like i did today with my PC specs).

you can get a 9600 xt for under 150 now at pricewatch.

as for the site, i have bought several hundred dollars worth of things from there. does that mean they are reliable? i dunno, the site only list vendors, but so far i have been fine.

there is a place there somewhere, where you can get a user report on each vendor, check them via other users.

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Posted by Andrei on Sat Jan 8th at 3:35pm 2005

Whatever you buy, make sure NVIDIA isn't written on it or you'll have a hard time with the drivers. [addsig]



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Posted by Quaver on Sat Jan 8th at 3:36pm 2005

I was just about to start a new tread with the same title, so instead of doing that whats the best grafix card i can get for ?350, im looking at getting the radeon x800 or is there somin better for cheaper? [addsig]



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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Jan 8th at 3:40pm 2005

? quoting Quaver
I was just about to start a new tread with the same title, so instead of doing that whats the best grafix card i can get for ?350, im looking at getting the radeon x800 or is there somin better for the same price?

price? i dunno, but PCG rated the 800xt better at HL2 than the 6800 pro or maybe gt.

i dunno about prices though.

the money conversions always throw me off, so you may need to research those two cards.

i can go get the magazine if its important, and please excuse the typo's if i named the cards incorrectly. however the 800 and the 6800 are correct designations.

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Posted by ReNo on Sat Jan 8th at 3:41pm 2005

I think the 6800GT is the card I would get just now, but they will probably be dropping in price in the not too distant future so I'm gonna wait it out. ATI cards might just have the lead when it comes HL2, but in most other games it seems nVidia are a tad better in the current generation. Check out benchmarks like at Tom's Hardware to find whats best for the games you play in your price range...

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20041004/index.html
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Posted by Dark|Killer on Sat Jan 8th at 4:01pm 2005

Hey yo guyz....Im wondering, i have a stupid old radeon 9700 Pro, AGP, which i hate , and im thinking of buying a new one, but which will i use???:

  • Radeon X 800 ( xt or ???)
  • Radeon X 850 (xt or ???)

I want to use it mainly for games and stuff...

so any one have a good suggestion??

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Posted by Quaver on Sat Jan 8th at 4:03pm 2005

thanks for that link, where would you recommend me buy in the uk, just so i can compare the prices of the cards because PCG recommeneds www.aria.co.uk but most of the cards on there are out of stock? [addsig]



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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Jan 8th at 4:12pm 2005

? quoting Quaver
thanks for that link, where would you recommend me buy in the uk, just so i can compare the prices of the cards because PCG recommeneds www.aria.co.uk but most of the cards on there are out of stock?

i do not have any European links, sorry.

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Posted by ReNo on Sat Jan 8th at 4:59pm 2005

Overclockers are pretty good for graphics cards...

http://www.overclockers.co.uk
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Posted by Myrk- on Sat Jan 8th at 5:39pm 2005

Warhammer is so overpriced nowadays, about 10 years ago it was like 1/4 price and you got so much stuff and way better modelling. It went down hill ages ago, occasionally I'll paint a cool figure, but just to keep my skills up to speed. [addsig]



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Posted by parakeet on Sat Jan 8th at 6:05pm 2005

yeah = / i still love to play though... Anyways my dad's bringing over a spare radeon 1000 something whoops i dont think thats it = P oh well its supossedly better than this nvidia one = /
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Posted by BlisTer on Sat Jan 8th at 7:00pm 2005

? quote:I think the 6800GT is the card I would get just now, but they will
probably be dropping in price in the not too distant future so I'm
gonna wait it out. ATI cards might just have the lead when it comes
HL2, but in most other games it seems nVidia are a tad better in the
current generation. Check out benchmarks like at Tom's Hardware to find
whats best for the games you play in your price range...

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20041004/index.html


heh we seem to be in the same case, coming from a Ti4200 going to a 6800GT. you also go through numerous review sites and then go for the one that seems to have the best quality/price ratio?
Anyway, when do you think the price is gonna drop? weeks, months?
It has droppped 20 euros over the last few months, now being at 430euros over here. (ps i only buy in shops, not online) [addsig]



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Posted by SaintGreg on Sun Jan 9th at 4:21am 2005

I would get a GeForce 6600 GT. For 190-200 dollars you get a card that is better than most cards in higher price ranges. Plus it offers support for shader model 3.0. Other than that many if not most 9800 pro's being made now are actually reflashed xt's. So if you got a 9800 pro, there is a good chance you could reflash it back to an xt, and you'd get xt performance at pro price. Even if not a 9800 pro is still a very good card.




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Posted by omegaslayer on Sun Jan 9th at 6:32am 2005

? quote:
Hey yo guyz....Im wondering, i have a stupid old radeon 9700 Pro, AGP, which i hate , and im thinking of buying a new one, but which will i use???:

  • Radeon X 800 ( xt or ???)
  • Radeon X 850 (xt or ???)

I want to use it mainly for games and stuff...

so any one have a good suggestion??



Comming from experience with the X800 XT, its great for HL2 I can run it at high (aa 4 af 4, all others high) settings and get 100fps average. The x850 doesnt have much over the x800, except in price, really get the 6800GT, its a slightly better card that is build to last (If you dont mind having your PCI card slot taken up underneth the AGP). Wait for the price to drop, or wait till next summer for the next generation cards to come out

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