What is best for me?

[Conjon]

Well, Im a big gamer looking for better gameplay.
I'm buying a new graphics card as the one I own now is poor.
But I was wondering if you could help me get the best for my money.
My budget is around 60-70 Pounds, and I need to buy an AGP card as I do not have PCI-E slots on my motherboard.
I was thinking of buying the 7300GT AGP, which is around 60 pounds, unless you could recommended another one? Any help would be appreciated.

 

[wolfram]

The 7300GT is a good one. What is your current video card?

 

[Conjon]

My current gfx card is Radeon 9250, and it's crap.

 

[wolfram]

The 7300GT should beat easily the 9250, however, it's not an incredibly fast card.

If you could spend a little more, check out the 7600GT. It's a very good, mid-range 3D card, but if you can't afford it, the 7300 card should be good enough.

Just make sure it has GDDR3 memory, not GDDR2.

 

[MetalX]

Actually, some 7300GT's can hit 580/1600 (the GDDR3 models). If they had 12pp instead of 8, they would be faster than a 7600GT. They are just a small margin behind when they are overclocked that high.

 

[Conjon]

No, I can't afford the 7600GT/GS since it doubled in price.

Oh and the one im looking at is DDR2, what's the difference?
With a budget of 65 Pounds and no PCI-E slots, I'm kind of limited so I think i'll still be going for the 7300GT DDR2 card :S

 

[wolfram]

DDR2 RAM is slower and runs hotter. But still you won't notice too much difference.

The 7300GT should be good enough for u.

Regards :wave:

 

[Conjon]

Ok thanks for all the help.

 

[Bluemouse]

Actually, Ive seen 7600 GT's go for around 120 canadian dollars, which is 60 pounds or so. I actually managed to get two 7600 Gt's for $50 each (Canadian), but that was a one-time thing lol. Look around at the smaller, more outlet computer stores and I am sure you can find a 7600GT for that price.

Edit: Never saw that you didn't have PCI-e slots I have no idea about agp cards, sorry :S

 

[wolfram]

The 7600GT AGP is usually more expensive, he can't afford it...

 

[MetalX]

Yea, I agree. If you can find one, a ATi 9800PRO is a good (if old) card. It has around the same clock speeds as the 7300GT and the same number of pipelines, but it is a 256-bit memory bus so it has double the memory bandwidth per MHz of memory speed as the 7300GT which is a 128-bit card.