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Graphics Card!
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Kamran
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29. May 2004 @ 11:18 |
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My Budget is £50 I am in the UK and I want to buy a Graphics Card which one should i go for. No more than £50
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Praetor
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29. May 2004 @ 16:26 |
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For the benifit of the rest of us who arent on that side of the pond, can you, for future reference, post either CAD or USD as well?
To answer your question you should be able to get a GF4TI or a Radeon9200SE for that kinda price range.
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Kamran
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29. May 2004 @ 16:57 |
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Sorry, well have you got any links to uk sites?
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Praetor
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29. May 2004 @ 17:13 |
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Nope I'm on 'this' side of the pond but from what my European friends say, things are bloody expensive there! (especially with the Value-Subtracted-Tax)
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Wuggish
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31. May 2004 @ 03:29 |
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i recently purchased a radeon 9200(se) and i live in the uk. i bought a 9200 for around £35 of dabs.com but later found it cheaper on another website, www.komplett.co.uk
hope this helps
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Kamran
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31. May 2004 @ 13:42 |
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Praetor
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31. May 2004 @ 13:45 |
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If im not mistaken thats a heavily downclocked version of their 9600 but that should be the only difference. Im an nvidia guy so this isnt my area of expertise.
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Kamran
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31. May 2004 @ 13:51 |
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is it better than fx 5200 and cud i overclock it back to normal?
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Praetor
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31. May 2004 @ 14:26 |
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I already answered that question:
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Dont get an FX5200 ... thats POS (think of it as the FX version of the GF4MX add DirectX9 and subtract performance).
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Wuggish
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31. May 2004 @ 14:53 |
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i think the card is good, but sayin that i hve never had a better card. But i got the ati radeon 9200(SE) which is 64bit and for a extra £10 you can get the standard 9200 which is the 128bit. i dont know anything about how much better this would make the performance .
hope this helps
does anyone know about 128 an 64 bit?
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Praetor
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31. May 2004 @ 14:56 |
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Whoa.... ALL STATIONS: FULL STOP...... Radeon9600SE is 64bit???? I read this somewhere else before but i thought it would be a typo ..... someone please confirm? In an era of 256bit GPUs and 128/256-bit memory, to hear 64bit (which is pre GeForce256 btw -- thats almost 10 years ago) is shocking.
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Kamran
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31. May 2004 @ 15:07 |
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Wuggish
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31. May 2004 @ 15:08 |
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the radeon 9200(SE) is 64bit yea it says on their website, maybe thats why its so cheap
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Wuggish
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31. May 2004 @ 15:10 |
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fill me in about "bit" and what its about
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Praetor
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31. May 2004 @ 15:38 |
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Ok its not as bad as I thought (or hoped :P) ... sure a 64bit memory interface is kinda poopy and two generations old (the NV17+ to my knowledge have been 128bit with very few ultra-budget cards as exceptions and only with the NV17, nothing after that) but unless you really plan to play video games all the time at ultrainsane settings (which the GPU cant handle anyways) or do mass math calculations then it shouldnt be too big a deal and i "guess" it's kinda worth the price if you're of the type of user to "play video games occasionally"
BTW what does the "SE" moniker mean? "Stupidly limited Edition"?
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Kamran
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31. May 2004 @ 18:26 |
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praetor do you think i could overclock that card? will i notice a big difference between that and my onboard graphics
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Praetor
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31. May 2004 @ 18:58 |
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praetor do you think I could overclock that card? will I notice a big difference between that and my onboard graphics
Depends on the onboard graphics but it is a safe assumption to say yes you will notice a big difference -- assuming you do play games... if you want a business machine then it wont matter
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Wuggish
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1. June 2004 @ 03:27 |
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i dunno wat SE stands for, could be special edition, slow edition, super edition, sh!t edition???
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cozza1987
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1. June 2004 @ 04:38 |
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In most cases you will notice the difference from Onboard to AGP Graphics Card.
Due to Onboard Graphics 'share' your RAM in your computer. Therefore takes longer to access the RAM.
If you do change your Graphics card, remember to go into the CMOS and turn it off, then you will gain your RAM back. eg if you have 512mb Installed RAM and ur onboard graphics was using 32mb, your computer actually only had 480mb
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Praetor
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1. June 2004 @ 06:31 |
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Due to Onboard Graphics 'share' your RAM in your computer. Therefore takes longer to access the RAM
Not sure if this applies to the onboard Radeons and GeForces .... i thought they also had some form of onboard video memory too? (not sure, might have been notebooks im thinking about)
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cozza1987
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1. June 2004 @ 06:36 |
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I know the crap like the SiS and crap ones like that share the ram but not to sure about the Radeons and GeForces.
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Praetor
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1. June 2004 @ 07:41 |
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SiS dont make video chip do they? I thought they just make North/South bridges and add a video chip by Intel, Ati, or nvidia or something.
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cozza1987
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1. June 2004 @ 08:10 |
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SiS Chipsets.....
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Praetor
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1. June 2004 @ 08:28 |
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Yes I know SiS make chipsets (not so great ones either) but they dont make the video compoenent of that (and thus wouldnt have a 'say' as to the type and quantity of memory on them). As far as I know they just make the North- and Southbridge and slap in a 3rd party video chip.
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cozza1987
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1. June 2004 @ 08:51 |
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Yea SiS usually use a Intel Video Chip.
What i am saying is most Onboard Video Graphics USUALLY have Shared Memory. Some of the nForce etc maybe have their own onboard memory, im not sure with that.
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