Mat Smith!! Posted July 22, 2009 Report Share Posted July 22, 2009 Is this graphics card shite? haha, because I've only just got my new pc and it came with this graphics card, and its not playing any of my games very well, which was perfectly fine on my old PC, no idea what card was in that one, anyone know any good cards, which would be best for cs:s, left for dead etc.I've tryed tuning all the settings on the card, so it plays preformance over quality but hasnt made a difference, and changed all the settings in game to lowest, still abit laggy even with 20-60 ping's, I've been told its my graphics card but could be anything else?Recommended: 2.4 GHz Processor, 512MB RAM, DirectX 9 level graphics card,Windows 2000/XPMine: Pentium® Dual-Core CPU E5200 @ 2.50GHz, 1.87GB of RAM,GeForce 7100 / NVIDIA nForce 630i, DirectX Version 9.0c, Windows XPCheers for any info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeroMatt Posted July 22, 2009 Report Share Posted July 22, 2009 Rubbish intergrated jobby is why. There should a PCI E slot on the board, you can buy a cheapish card and pop it in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mat Smith!! Posted July 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2009 Rubbish intergrated jobby is why. There should a PCI E slot on the board, you can buy a cheapish card and pop it in.Any recomendations? prices or websites?I thought it was an intergrated one, and thats why it was lacking but didnt really know, thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weirdoku Posted July 22, 2009 Report Share Posted July 22, 2009 Check out overclockers.co.ukI built my whole system with stuff brought from there, really good service. As for recommendations, there's quite a range of cards out there, what's your budget?For CS and L4D, you'll be fine geting something like a ati 4830/4850 (maybe even older 47xx ones) series or nvidias 8800/9600 series. You can find these quite cheap second hand on eBay too. But don't expect these to run recent games on full settings, you'll need to spend a bit more for that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muel Posted July 22, 2009 Report Share Posted July 22, 2009 If you're looking for super cheap mat, I'd go for one of these: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct....amp;subcat=1010ATI might be better budget cards though, never really looked into them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mat Smith!! Posted July 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2009 Take it graphics cards are pretty expencive for high range ones?I'll have a see, I'm not really into playing many recent games anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si-man Posted July 22, 2009 Report Share Posted July 22, 2009 My 8800gt plays crysis and all new games on high settings. They are bloody fast cards, mines the 1gb gainward jobby though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krisboats Posted July 22, 2009 Report Share Posted July 22, 2009 For CS and L4D, you'll be fine geting something like a ati 4830/4850 (maybe even older 47xx ones) series or nvidias 8800/9600 series. You can find these quite cheap second hand on eBay too. But don't expect these to run recent games on full settings, you'll need to spend a bit more for that An ATI 4850 will play pretty much any recent game fully maxed out, with one or two exceptions. 47** cards aren't older either, they were released after the 48** series so they're actually newer but less powerful.http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct....&subcat=938Will play practically anything you throw at it with full settings. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weirdoku Posted July 22, 2009 Report Share Posted July 22, 2009 (edited) My 8800gt plays crysis and all new games on high settings. They are bloody fast cards, mines the 1gb gainward jobby though.What fps do you get out of that 8800gt?Edit: @ kris, I never looked into atis much all these cards coming out with differnt numbers are just confusing, eg 47xx came out after 48xx like you said. I need to catch up! Edited July 22, 2009 by weirdoku Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krisboats Posted July 22, 2009 Report Share Posted July 22, 2009 What fps do you get out of that 8800gt?Edit: @ kris, I never looked into atis much all these cards coming out with differnt numbers are just confusing, eg 47xx came out after 48xx like you said. I need to catch up!It's not confusing, its a performance related scale. The bigger the number the better the card, release date is largely irrelevant especially within the same line of cards (ie same first number). Nvidia f**ked it all up with them introducing a whole new numbering scale. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mat Smith!! Posted July 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2009 An ATI 4850 will play pretty much any recent game fully maxed out, with one or two exceptions. 47** cards aren't older either, they were released after the 48** series so they're actually newer but less powerful.http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct....&subcat=938Will play practically anything you throw at it with full settings.That looks alright, might invest in one of them in a week . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si-man Posted July 22, 2009 Report Share Posted July 22, 2009 Yer, I hate the new nvidia cards. Its like a 280 is better than a 295 or something daft. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muel Posted July 22, 2009 Report Share Posted July 22, 2009 (edited) They got to 9800 though, going any higher than that would just sounds wierd.The GTX295 sounds better than the 10,295GT.EDIT: I assumed the 295 was the highest spec? Edited July 22, 2009 by Muel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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