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11th June, 2005, 10:04 AM
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 Need more advice Hi all, In my quest to find a relatively good but cheap graphics card, i need a bit more advice. I was told that a good card was a GeForce 4 Ti4600. I have searched on ebay for weeks and i can't find any cheap enough for me (it's just plain sad i can't afford cards tha cheap). I am still looking for a card though, here's the ideal spec i'm after: 128Mb RAM (Ideally but 64Mb minimum) 250Mhz 3D Core speed AGP 4X (for compatibility with current mobo, can not accept 8x) At least 1 VGA output (others are optional but not required) Made by Nvidia (preferably but not essential) OpenGL 1.3 compatible Direct X 8.x compatible Hardware 3D T&L I am really desperate to get this sorted out now as it's really annoying me having to put up with an outdated voodoo 3 that is quite useless ATM (I'm getting 'Code 10 - The device cannot start' in device manager, started after i repaired XP about a week ago). Anyway, as you can see from my spec above, it's kinda a gaming card i'm after for playing games like Halo, Enemy Territory, Condition Zero, maybe even half-life 2 or doom 3. It doesn't want to be too expensive as like i've said many times before, i'm on a shoestring budget, ideally, the cheapest one that matches the spec i stated above. So any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Scott.
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11th June, 2005, 02:16 PM
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| It's best to start with your max budget and work from that, HL2 will scaleback to pretty much any DX7 card, so if you don't mind it not being pretty, a GF3 would be alright, they go very cheaply on ebay as they lag behind in 3D and are nothing special in 2D Any way here are my picks of cheap cards on ebay ending soon http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...205249308&rd=1 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...206023355&rd=1 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...205287686&rd=1 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...205287795&rd=1 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...204513097&rd=1 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...206425243&rd=1 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...205287658&rd=1 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...sPageName=WDVW
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11th June, 2005, 02:47 PM
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| hmmm, only 2 in ther that i might be able to afford soon. I'm just after an idea of what cards to look for so i know what to search for when i get a bit more money. Thanks, Scott.
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11th June, 2005, 03:48 PM
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| How much money are we talking though? I'm guessing the GF3 and Radeon8500 were the 2?
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