To all those looking for cheap graphic cards...

[Noni]

DO NOT BUY CARDS WITH 256mb! Unless its more powerful than a 6600GT.

There is no piont of it, I see so many threads with people sucked in, its like a gimmic.

Just because of the 256mb does NOT mean its better!!!

You will probably need the ram for high resolutions. Resultions the speeds of the card cannot support.

Also most of the cheap cards have "DDR", look out for thise when you are buying cards. Especially on cards like 6800gt 128mb and X800's. You want DDR3 or GDDR3. Its faster RAM!!!!

Basically, for good performance, the minimal cheap cards you can get is the-

6600GT (I reccomend this one)

or

9800 pro/ X800GT

Good luck with finding your cards people!

[$G-MONEY SMITH$]

Re: To all those looking for cheap graphic cards...

ok have fun showing me a person with a 6600gt that compares to my computer.

[neo265]

Re: To all those looking for cheap graphic cards...

Here we go again.....best computer in world etc etc.

What cooler do you use on your GT?

[$G-MONEY SMITH$]

Re: To all those looking for cheap graphic cards...

stock leadtek cooling but my case is like always at 73f it stays below 75 almost all the time.

[imported_deserteagle]

Re: To all those looking for cheap graphic cards...

lol try a nivad 1 gig graphics card with 4 kingston gig of ram lol 2.9 prossesor 160gig harddrive!!!!!! lol

[Gerle]

Re: To all those looking for cheap graphic cards...

stock leadtek cooling but my case is like always at 73f it stays below 75 almost all the time.

73F for the case, what, 75C for the card then?

[neo265]

Re: To all those looking for cheap graphic cards...

must be 75c for the GPU as 75F is very low. The Artic Cooling Silencser looks very good.

Ive just bought a 6800GT as I killed my 6800 Vanila but found the ram defaults to 900Mhz instead of 1000Mhz. After googling, I found that some unlucky XFX owners are stuck with that as default even though removing the HSF reveals the memory is standard 1000Mhz.

[$G-MONEY SMITH$]

Re: To all those looking for cheap graphic cards...

hell no! my card gets to 60c smetmes not 75 thats crazy its idles at 49-50 c i meant the case never gets hotter than 75f im getting a silencer for it to the 5 to do more cooling along with a artic silver 5.

[GroundDefence]

Re: To all those looking for cheap graphic cards...

ok have fun showing me a person with a 6600gt that compares to my computer.

AMD Fx-57 thing
6600GT
4GB's of ram
500GB SUPER FAST HDD
Water Cooling
600W PSU
(mind you I dont know **** about computers)

[$G-MONEY SMITH$]

Re: To all those looking for cheap graphic cards...

ok? i bet id still get better fps than that. 4 gigs isnt going to make your game get more fps. myabe so little you would never tell. and just cause it has a fx57 doesnt mean jack.

[PBAsydney]

Re: To all those looking for cheap graphic cards...

Cheapest card that can support BF2: Radeon X300, my card!

It will run it fine on medium settings 0x AA, 100% view distance on 1024x768.

And i have 512mb RAM, it will be quite good enough once i get another 512 stick.

[Snake101]

Re: To all those looking for cheap graphic cards...

ok? i bet id still get better fps than that. 4 gigs isnt going to make your game get more fps. myabe so little you would never tell. and just cause it has a fx57 doesnt mean jack.

Dude...shut up. There is no point in starting an argument over such a stupid thing... :laugh:

[$G-MONEY SMITH$]

Re: To all those looking for cheap graphic cards...

i wasnt arguing seems as you are trying to start some flammage maybe?

[Death Merchant]

Re: To all those looking for cheap graphic cards...

duno about a single 6600gt that could beat ur specs


but this almost certainly would

amd athlon x2 4800+ocd to fx-57 speeds
2gb ddr2 533 mhz
2x6600gt 256mb sli
74 gig raptor


all water cooled and with a good psu

[$G-MONEY SMITH$]

Re: To all those looking for cheap graphic cards...

yeah but not by much.