Just bought a AMD Athlon 64 3800+, with 1 gig of DDR 400 ram.
Thats all the specs you need(well the DVD burner and HD are non essential info)
I plan on buying a graphics card for £70-£80
All I want to play is CS:Source WOW, MOH Breakthough, COD United Offensive, and Quake 3
Maybe overkill but better than my old 2.68 Celeron, with 768 of 133mhz ram and a Radeon 9550 256mb!
Oh and I need a PCI Express card, I would of been happy with my old one but its AGP sigh.
7600gs
check for reviews on all the different manufacturers as there can be a slight difference between them
erm, hmmm, is that the highest you can go?
For that price your proberbly best of with a Nvidia 7600 series or a ATI X1600 series card.
EDIT: Grr apoc, beat me to it!
muahahahahaa
if you can push a bit higher, the best mid range card is 7600gt
I would get the 7600gt, not that much more than the gs but a lot faster and at least has GDDR3 memory.
7600gt - £74.99+VAT
7600gs - £61.99+VAT
Where can I get the 7600gt for that price? at a push I could do £80, or £90 if I eat basics for a few days.
Cheapest I have seen them online is £100
Quote from: ryouga on Sep 19, 2006, 23:07:23
Where can I get the 7600gt for that price? at a push I could do £80, or £90 if I eat basics for a few days.
Cheapest I have seen them online is £100
BFG 3DFuzion GeForce 7600 GT 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-025-BG)
Price: £74.99 (£88.11 Including VAT at 17.5%) (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/7600_Series.html)
;) The store had them on a offer a few weeks ago but they've kept the offer price on the website :)
I was thinking of getting one to keep me going until the geforce 8xxx(dx10) series is released ;D
when is DX10 released? is it still Vista only?
dx10 = no point until vista = could be delayed = if they do come out no point in dx10 capabilities = dx10 will only work with vista = vista might be delayed = you kinda get the point :P
When vista is first released watch it crumble and burn....it will be a hackers heaven!
muahahahahaaaaa :crazy:
OpenGL for the win tbh! :P
Not sure about vista being any good, but I would guess hackers will try. Seems like microsoft's version of Mac OSX tbh ::)
I might be getting vista beta tomorrow. I know someone who has it so will probably just copy it to DVD to save me using 2.2gb of download on my connection :o
Right loads of good news!
I bought a 7600Gt 256mb, a gig more ram(so I now have 2 gig) and a second DVD burner for my PC.
So now I have a good build!
And more good news! my old Tiscali marker is off my phone line, so today I ordered IDnet(I paid the fee of £47 worth it to be rid of Tiscali!)
My new graphics card, dvdburner and ram were posted today, so by this time next week I will be very happy!
wow thats gonna be quite a setup to contend with :P
we need to get more people in our temporary server (87.117.227.113:27015) any ideas and wanna meet up there sometime?
wots ur xfire addy