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Lur =GCHQ=
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Post subject: ATI - SAPPHIRE RADEON 9250  Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 9:42 pm |
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basically...i cant afford to get a decent computer at the moment, when i can i plan on building one from pretty much scratch...at the moment, ive got this ok pc 2.4Ghz intel celeron, 480MB ram...decent hard drive, the only problem with it at the moment is it has onboard graphics  im looking to buy a mid priced graphics card to help it out...break into the real games world hopefully. i went on ebay and found the one in the name of the thread ( http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SAPPHIRE-RADEON-9 ... dZViewItem)
but is it any good is the question?? if not can you reccomend any better
*PCI* cards for around 40 squid??
Last edited by Lur =GCHQ= on Fri Apr 20, 2007 5:32 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 12:01 am |
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10 views and yet no advise... 
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 1:12 am |
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you wont find much about for £40 I'm afraid :\
an extra tenner or so would help out a bit =P
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 9:31 am |
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Yea dude I had that card going for awhile and it's pretty lame, only runs upto direct x 8, but I guess since you only play Runescape and stuff thats not such a problem  ..
If you wanna play other games like CnC 3 / CSS etc get a direct x 9 card at least, so..I dunno, 9600 series radeon or a 6600 series nvdia should cut it.
This perhaps, cheaper and better, http://murl.se/23938
Or you could experiment and get something random like this http://murl.se/23939 _________________ 
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 11:09 am |
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If you don't have an AGP slot or PCI-e slot, the 9250 is probably the best PCI card you're going to be able to get, that or the Geforce FX 5500 256MB.
They should both play CSS but not BF2/BF2142.
Or buy a new motherboard/PC.  _________________ 
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 2:10 pm |
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well you see...heres the problem, im 15..soo obviously no income for me, im 16 in may...ill start getting EMA from school in august and ill probably grab a summer job somewhere...soo for the moment its just the family pc i have to use...luckily its just me and my mum. i opened it up last night and had a look...all it has is 2 PCI slots...soo its gonna hafta be a PCI card for now..and also the only reason im really wanting it is soo that i can play gunz on a bit higher rez and that (got it set to optomize) and start playing CSS. soo if i can get something that will play CSS im sorted.
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 2:44 pm |
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Well yea the 9250 works ok on CSS..I managed to kill some people with it I think, FPS is around 15-30 though depending on how good your CPU is.
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 3:48 pm |
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what about the one natt said, the geforce?? would that be better than the 9250 having double the memory and that yeh??
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 4:47 pm |
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 4:53 pm |
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does it have an agp slot on it?
quick edit..... i read in a post you said only pci slots..you sure?
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 5:07 pm |
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I would have thought your ram would be as big an issue as anything... _________________ 
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Lur =GCHQ=
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 5:13 pm |
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natt, how the heck did you find them?? i was sitting on google for ages trying all combinations of searches...almost everytime just being shown PCI-E cards...both of em look great, but which one would you guys reccomend from the 2?? im guessing the 6200 (purely becuse its more expensive) but do you think the 9250 would run CSS without any problems?? if the 9250 will run CSS then ill go for that one...obviously as its the cheaper option...ill wait and see what you lot say on the 2 though.
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 5:15 pm |
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just use the sites parametric searches, they're a hell of a lot better than google
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 5:30 pm |
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ok..its narrowed down to 2 cards now....
ATI - GECUBE RADEON 9250 256MB....£43
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PNY GeForce 6200 256MB....£53
do some wee sorta poll thing...all of you say the one you'd buy
and ill get the most popular one or something like that
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 5:33 pm |
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heeh....there we go..ive just added a poll...cmon guys, help me out and
take part in it.
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