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Hot Topics Hanging on L4Y Closing Down anyone here Crackdown 3's geomod Roll-Call. Who's still... R.I.P Sir Lots-A-Pot Server maps? Red Faction for Mac Who's still here? Run Event December 27th!   Online Goodness There are 0 users and 2 guests online     Levels-4-You : Lounge : Gfx Card - Cheap for work or new for me [Forum Rules]   Back to Forum Thread List cyrus5   Posted 27th Jun 2006 5:31pm [CP] Director L4Y Member Post 206 / 241 hey guys, want some advice, the gfx card at works sucks, I need to get one that is capable of running 2 monitors properly. I'm thinking of just buying something cheap off ebay. i.e. ~ £30-40. However.... At home I have an fx5900xt, its not a bad card, but its finding some new titles a bit heavy going. What I was considering, was rather than buying a cheap one for work, should I spend a little more and upgrade to something like a 6600gt, 6800, or equivalent ATI for home and move my current card to the office. Would an upgrade to a 6600gt 128 or 256mb be worth it? i.e.http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=103000451443&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT Both PC's are AGP, so should I just buy a really cheap card for work and put off spending more and upgrade motherboard and get a pci-e card at a later date when I would have more to spend? Whaddayathink? Only the dead have seen the end of war - Plato I think it would be a good idea. - Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilisation. cyrus5.co.uk!     Garner    Posted 27th Jun 2006 6:05pm Post 2233 / 4125 I upgraded my home PC to a 6800 6-8 months back, being still tied to AGP at the time I couldn't get much better. The only game its struggling in is Ghost Recon 3.. and even then its not really having much of a problem... its just in the 10-30fps range so perfectly playable still. The idea is to get a new PC early/middle next year once Vista and the new DX10 graphics cards are out. This PC is perfectly capable of running Vista (its running Beta 2 quite happily right now) but it'll be 3 years old this December and thats time for a new PC My advice is get something that'll keep you going for the time being and upgrade the mobo properly in 8-12 months time. Buying a new setup now only months before the big leap up to DirectX 10 would be a little silly if you ask me "Science is this extraordinary transnational, transcultural, trans-everything language which is the only way to discover Truth and its regrettable that billions are still stuck in the Middle Ages believing the crap propagated by Popes and priests..." - Peter Atkins    Modified Jun 27th, 06:05pm by Garner

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