Topic: Which graphics card

[foxman318]

Looking for a good graphics card to handle games like Flt Sim 2004 which needs to redraw mucho fasto.

Any ideas.....

regards..........Fox

[Simon]

What are you looking to spend, Fox?  A good GeForce would cost about £80-£100, but a really good one might cost up to £300!  Personally, I have never spent more than about £60 on a graphics card (GeForce FX5600 8X 128Mb), and it does all I want it to do, but them I'm not really a big gamer.

[foxman318]

I might get away with £300.  I have been told that a card with FX at the end will give loads of coloure etc, but I should be looking for a card with more RAM ie 256 as this will speed up the redraw process.
BTW my card is a GeForce 4MX 440 SE (nVidia 64Mb AGP) Graphics Card.


Fox

[Sandra]

Theres a new type of card out now that I hadnt heard about until sunday this week called PCI Express.
From what I have read theyre better than AGP cards due to some new kind of new technology in how they work.
Ebuyer has a few for sale starting from around £85 plus vat.
I dont know if you need a certain FSB for them or if they work on any board as I only had a quick read about them.
If anyone knows anything about them can you fill us in with the details please  

[Sandra]

It looks like you need a special mobo with a PCI Express slot  
It sounds promising though as it runs at up to 60 x normal PCI bus speed or about 4x the fasted AGP card at the moment and presumably will only get better and faster as its developed  

[foxman318]

If I try for a new Mobo as well ......she who must be obeyed will do nasty things to me........