You probably get this all the time, but im shopping for a new graphics card. at the moment i have an ati 9600xt which is rubiish XD.
I have a VIA P4VM800 mobo with an AGP 8X Slot. im looking to spend around £100 on this and i am a serious gamer, so i need something capable of playing pretty much anything on full. i prefer ATI and i was told the X850 was the best for AGP but i dont think it is. does anyone know what i should get?

2GB RAM
3.0GHz P4 HT CPU
XP
Radeon 9600XT

The best for AGP8X is the Geforce 7800GS, but I'm sure it won't cost £100 lol

For that budget, the best card would be a X800GTO, a 7600GS or maybe a 7600GT, but I'm afraid that a good, high-performing card won't cost £100.

Regards :wave:

How much is £100? I dont remember the exchange into USD :haha:


Well yeah what Wolf said is that the 7800 is probably the best card befor switching to a PCI-E card ( which you dont have because you have AGP )

So it's up to you, Personaly I would just upgrade my mobo, RAM and Processor and get a 7900GT or 8800 so I can get some nice graphics + good resolution

The 7800GS would probably cost around £200 or so. The best choice for £100 would be the X850XT PE. However, make sure ur PSU is able to handle the new card, since it is a sucker for power so a 300W supply just won't cut it .

A 400W PSU is able to power a X850XT PE. I have one, and it works very well with my FSP PSU.

Ahh, but you also have an incredible amount of Amperage on it (psu) as well ! I doubt my Generic 450Watt would hold up to the X850XT PE (it only has 18A/12V Rail).

Oh no... not enough for it. My PSU costed me around $40. Cheap, and pretty damn good

Oh dont worry about the PSU, i have an Ennermax 480W PSU. that includes the cables for the graphics card. ok so around £100 is about $170 - $200? i want the best for £100 possible. So what do you think?

Oh and what make and everything do you recommend?

Which is better?
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?bfg-76gs5&P=1
or
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?sap-x16p5&P=1
or
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?sap-1650pa&P=1

For $184 US dollars, you can get a 7600GT:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814150200

But I don't know if you can find it in the UK

wow jeeze wolfram that card looks sweet, 1.4ghz memory clock!!
Is this the 1? there are other like it also if you could please look here>>

http://froogle.google.co.uk/froogle?q=GeForce 7600GT agp&btnG=Search&hl=en&show=dd

wolfram is right on the 7800GS. high oc ability (oc'd from manufacturer already) but you can go higher. Yah, its a $200+ card, but it hangs with a lot of the newer stuff out there.

Hmm.... What the hell does Body Flex have to do with a graphics card?


Anyways, If you plan on going to the OCing side of gaming then get SLI 7800s or 7900s ( depending on your price range ) since they both have great clock speeds that you can rise even higher

Stupid advertisers have been here since before I signed up. I don't know why they do this but it's stupid to .

That's spam. I have reported the post

BTW justinone, this is the card:
http://www.eclipsecomputers.com/product.aspx?code=GCX-AN76GT256&af=50

Regards :wave:

Nice videocard Wolf, and Yeah Cfitzarl all advertisers that post on random sites are just being stupid

I would second the 7600GT. It's a powerful mid-high end card and can run most games on full detail at 1024x768 very easily.

Very nice! thnks guys looks like i will buy this card then. thanks again for your help.!

Yeah, I just got the 7600GT on my AM2 system ( just to try it out ) and it plays Battlefield 2142 / FEAR on high-medium so it's great for the price

It wasnt a AGP card but PCI-e