Best Video Card For 300NZD And Best HD

[Billy_Slater]

Hey,

I Was Wondering What Is The Best Video Card That I can Get For Around 300 Dollars?

http://www.elive.co.nz/pci-pcie-video-cards.php

Will It Play BF2 Smoothly Idc If It Has To be In Low Im Used To That Anyway.

I Want A Fast Hard Drive Idc What Gig It Is I Dont Use Much, Just Not A Real Expensive One:

http://www.elive.co.nz/sata-hard-drives.php

Thanks

[Predators28]

Re: Best Video Card For 300NZD And Best HD

What are you PC specs?

[BPCrusher01]

Re: Best Video Card For 300NZD And Best HD

The Hitachi GST drives are good. Also newer Seagate Barracudas.

Look at this chart.

http://www23.tomshardware.com/storage.html

[Billy_Slater]

Re: Best Video Card For 300NZD And Best HD

Idk Hwo To Find Out About All INfo But

1gb Ram
Seagate 80gb HD
ATI RADEN 9600

[Stormy{CAN}]

Re: Best Video Card For 300NZD And Best HD

How about none of the above.

1. 1gb Ram
2. Seagate 80gb HD
3. ATI RADEN 9600

1. More ram is always a good thing and for BF2 1GB is the minimum. Assuming your current ram is PC2100/2700/3200, buying more now is for the most part a waste of money as PC2100/2700/3200 (DDR) is slowly being phased out in favor of DDR2 (and the recently released DDR3).

2. Unless your current hard drive is a 5400 rpm model (doubtful), then you will see minimal (very minimal) gains from a new hard drive.

3. If memory servers the 9600 only came in AGP, and you linked to PCI and PCI-E cards. The only time you would ever buy a PCI video card is if the motherboard doesn't have either an AGP os PCI-E slot, or even to use as a secondary card (helpful in SLI configs to run dual monitors).

Taking all of the above into consideration your best bet would be to save up and ewither build or buy a new computer.

[megawhompertoo]

Re: Best Video Card For 300NZD And Best HD

Hey,

I Was Wondering What Is The Best Video Card That I can Get For Around 300 Dollars?

http://www.elive.co.nz/pci-pcie-video-cards.php

Will It Play BF2 Smoothly Idc If It Has To be In Low Im Used To That Anyway.

I Want A Fast Hard Drive Idc What Gig It Is I Dont Use Much, Just Not A Real Expensive One:

http://www.elive.co.nz/sata-hard-drives.php

Thanks

You Capitalized The First Letter Of Every Word In Your Post, And Now My Eyes Bleed. :) kidding...but anyway if you want to upgrade instead of build new (i wouldn't, but i'm not you):

7600gs might be a good start

http://www.elive.co.nz/view_product.php?product=dv0119&search=agp&search_category=

Seagate 80gb

http://www.elive.co.nz/seagate-ST380815AS-80gb-sata-p0666.php

like stormy said ^ you've most likely got an agp. to add to that, you need to be sure you've got a SATA port before you buy a SATA drive. There are MANY socket 478 chipsets that pre-date or just don't have SATA ports.

[Eagle101]

Re: Best Video Card For 300NZD And Best HD

might as well get a 2600XT or save a little more and get an 8800GTS 320 or 640MB

[Stormy{CAN}]

Re: Best Video Card For 300NZD And Best HD

might as well get a 2600XT or save a little more and get an 8800GTS 320 or 640MB

You wouldn't happen to know where to get either of those in AGP would you?

[.Gunfire]

Re: Best Video Card For 300NZD And Best HD

nvidia failz get a nice x1900 or 1950