Recommend A Decent Graphics Card?

Vic Vinegar

Hi, we're looking to get a graphics card for our pc, nothing major! the only gaming it sees is the Sims 2 & Age Of Empires and the like (my girlfriend mostly, I game on consoles only) what's a good, not too expensive option to run said games on high settings?

Here's what we have now:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 2.2GHz Socket AM2 1MB
Corsair TWIN2X 6400 DDR2 - 3gig
Gigabyte GA-MA69VM-S2, AMD 690V+SB600
Some 600 watt psu!

We're just using the onboard graphics chip at the mo!

TerrorFirmer

Something like this if you want the option of being able to play more recent, intensive games at some stage, otherwise, something like this is more then capable of playing those games at high settings. Of course, the latter will play anything currently out, but not advisable for someone looking for a respectable gaming experience with the latest titles.

Vic Vinegar

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Something like this if you want the option of being able to play more recent, intensive games at some stage, otherwise, something like this is more then capable of playing those games at high settings.

If the 2nd option is up to running those games on high then that'll do, she only really plays one or two games on the pc herself cos she has a 360 as well that she uses for most games.

Cheers man, quick advice as always!

TerrorFirmer

Similar card on Dabs - has it's own 512mb ddr2 as opposed to 256mb ddr2 w/rest made up with hypermemory - think their postage might be considerably cheaper that offsets the slightly increased price in comparison to Komplett.

Vic Vinegar

Cheers man, a guy on boards is selling this...http://hi-techreviews.com/reviews_2006/HISX1900GT/P1.htm

Any thoughts? are the ones you recommended better?

TerrorFirmer

Yes would outperform either card mentioned above.

Vic Vinegar

Cool, he wants €60 for it, I'll try and haggle a bit! how much is it worth about? (2nd hand)

TerrorFirmer

As the IceQ model it worth a bit more then a regular 1900GT, so I'd say you'd be looking at 50-60 euro value at least.

Vic Vinegar

Nice one man.