david barkham

Hello all, need some advice on what graphics card to buy for no more than
£80. I want to be able to run Counter-Strike Source at a decent frame rate
and have some of the settings turned up at least. Your input would be
greatly appreciated.

uzi

What's your system spec? CPU, RAM etc...?

jimbob

You can have my mx440 for £79.99

Well worth it. ^^

trunky

An ATI 9600 should be within your price range, steer clear of the SE
version, strive for a pro or xt version. Certainly the 9600 I have used
produced 70fps @ 1024 res with most of the bells and whistles on.

T

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dustjunky

You can have my mx440 for £79.99

Well worth it. ^^

LOL

Seriously though if you want to play CS:S and HL2 with a good framerate AND see
all the fluffy things (and what's the point if you don't, people claiming they
can play HL2 well on an old DirectX 7 card are just fooling themselves, HL2
looks like HL1 on a non DX9 card) then you should really spend more than £80

However if you want to scrape the bottom of the spec barrel and just about
squeeze a diamond out of a turd then head on over to

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatal...00_Series.html

the second one down a 9800 pro for £80 but if you are planning to stick it into
a 600Mhz P3 with 128MB RAM running win 98 then don't bother, CS:S is CPU
intensive and really anything less then a 2GHz P4 or AMD equivalent with 512MB
RAM just won't be able to drive any card well enough to get playable FPS in a 24
man firefight.

lowekey

The most outragouesly Expensive one you can buy/steal/make/find

moondog

Wow looked at those cards on newegg.com


The day i can can buy one of theose cards is the day I win the
lottery!!!


$500 for a video card is insane!!!


Must be nice to be rich!

Moondog