Butters! Posted August 21, 2009 Share Posted August 21, 2009 I have a £40 (About $66) budget, and I need to get a new (gaming if that makes a differance?) graphics card because the one I have is quite frankly...crap. So whats the best Graphics card I can get for £40, and is it worth buying it to replace a NVIDIA Gefore 7050 / NVIDIA nForce 610i? My brother has a NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS, (They are worth about £18 or $30 at the cheapest from Amazon) and I would like to get one that's better than his (because he'll get mad ) Here are my current PC Specs, because it would be better if I didn't have to buy any other new equiptment, so I want to know first hand: Packard Bell, Windows Vista Home Premium Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40 GHz 3.00 GB RAM 32-Bit Operating System Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTA Don Posted August 21, 2009 Share Posted August 21, 2009 ATI: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/169034 NVIDIA: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/165582 Did some digging on eBuyer, those are the best two cards I could find for your budget. You could check around on other sites, overclockers etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damjan Posted August 22, 2009 Share Posted August 22, 2009 My opinion, get the 4650.Cheap and better than the 9500. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TM™ Posted August 22, 2009 Share Posted August 22, 2009 9500GT is a decent card (I have it on my PC), ain't the best card you get, but then again, you can only play games (e.g. Crysis, Far Cry 2) at around medium/high settings (Some my be very high). From what I heard though it's not really a gaming graphics card, you'd be better off getting your hands on a 9600GT, at least it will make a better difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butters! Posted August 22, 2009 Author Share Posted August 22, 2009 I think I'll probably get the ATI. What kind of specs do you think I'll be able to run new games at on it? @GTA Don thanks for finding those Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damjan Posted August 22, 2009 Share Posted August 22, 2009 Medium and high, never low.(except IV that is, you will run it on low, same with the 9500) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butters! Posted August 22, 2009 Author Share Posted August 22, 2009 OK, I think I'll be getting myself one. (Also why IV on low? Luckily I have it on Xbox) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TM™ Posted August 22, 2009 Share Posted August 22, 2009 Well to answer that question, it entirely depends on if your card supports the game. Secondly, think of it like this, if the game is graphically intense, then you know yourself it's not going to max it out, probably on low/medium settings. If you're lucky, some at high or very high. I have the 9500GT (512MB) and I get around 20-25 FPS when playing Far Cry 2 (Only on DX9, If it's DX10 it lags really bad). Crysis gets around 15-25 FPS if I've set everything on High Settings. If I put the Shader Quality and Particles effect to medium settings, it gives me a performance boost (30 FPS and around 25 FPS when in fights). GTA4, well I dunno, haven't tested it, but from what I seen, it doesn't seem to good to handle IV. The ATi card seems equivalent to the nVidia card, but like Steam said, go for ATi, cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butters! Posted August 22, 2009 Author Share Posted August 22, 2009 (edited) Well thats OK then because the games I play on my PC are mainly Far Cry 2, Oblivion and The Sims 3, and I'm sure that they'll all run on it. Edited August 22, 2009 by Butters! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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