Re: Graphics card advice please

bRiAN wrote:
Paul wrote:
Tell us how many dollars you have to spend, so we can suggest something
appropriate. If you say you have $50, then that won't be "high end".
If you mention a dollar figure, we can suggest a card, and what "end"
it occupies.

If you think you're going to be sucked into "Vista and DX10" at some
point in the near future, that can play a part in the decision too.
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I can see myself getting vista one day but it's long off.... I would say I'm looking to spend about $200 (whatever the exchange rate is for the US dollar to UK £)

There are some suggestions here. If you could find some of the older
78xx or 79xx cards, there'd be some more cards to fill in the gaps.
But that isn't likely to happen.

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=31&threadid=2096830

Sapphire Technology Radeon X1950 PRO 512MB GDDR3 PCIE Dual DVI 580/700 £97.58 inc vat
http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?Quicklinx=4D6N

XFX GeForce 8800GTS 320MB DDR3 Dual DVI PCIE (due soon) £179.84 inc vat
http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?Quicklinx=4FFB

Walk the charts, to see where they sit versus their price.
http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics_2007.html?modelx=33&model1=858&model2=725&chart=284

Paul

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