Buggered Graphics Card - advice on new one please!
Buggered Graphics Card - advice on new one please!
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oi_oi_savaloy

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2,315 posts

290 months

Monday 14th August 2006
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All this heat in the last month has done for my graphics card (an All-in-wonder ATI Radeon 9800 128m, 2 yrs old) so now need some help and advice on a new one please!

Typical applications are;

Wife: surfing the web, mucking about with photos, general spreadsheet and word processing.

Me: Regular online player (counter Strike at the moment) plus games aplenty plus everything the wife does.

Basically can I get away with buying another 128mb card or do I need to step up to a 256? I'm on a budget of about £60 quid. Really can't go higher due to current circumstances (we're trying to prepare for Kid number 1!).

I'd prefer one with a fan too please rather than heatsink.

Any advice gratefully recieved.

thepassenger

6,962 posts

265 months

Monday 14th August 2006
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It'll be impossible to find something that does everything the All-in-Wonder does for £60 I think (TV-in, etc).
But for straight graphics output a quick poke around my local OEM shows:
www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?NOV-GF6225

Should be good enough for blatting around counter strike and most games... and it's under budget as well.

pjskel

10,842 posts

257 months

Monday 14th August 2006
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Gainward 7300GT from Pixmania for £65 delivered.