New GFX card

[blue]

Not knowing whats hot, new or not, Im asking you guys

Would like to renew my card, but I don't want to spend like insane amount of money on one, so I was thinking if its possible at all to get a new(ish) card for about 100 USD/70 Euro? Or is that just TO naive and optimistic?

If so.. how much(little) would I have to spend on one, that runs QW fine? (on higher settings or at least not Low like I got the game running on now)

Heeelp

If any got a used 8800 (GS/GTX/BLABLA or whatever it might be ) they want to sell, please let me know

[]UBC[xacuit]

Hi Blue,well i was running a HIS radeon HD2600 pro 512mb card,which was very good at first&only cost me like £30.I started having problem's(black wall's,ground&sky)so i bought a Sapphire HD4870 1gb DDR5 card which cost £150.00.I am still having the problems but not as bad.So i am in the prosses off upgrading my motherboard&processor.
Ever seen the film Mad Max?In the garage at the beach part,there is a sign that say's"Speed is just a question off money,how fast do you won't to go" ;D.Well i feel this equates to the same thing in your graphic's card"How fast do you won't to be" .There are alot off card's out there,from cheap&ok to expensive&fast.What i done was to get the best,most upto date card i could for the money i could afford.I have always gone for ATI card's(even when i had an AGP slot).I find that ATI against Nividia you can get a better card for less money.Looking at clock speed's&on board memory capability.
Here is a link to a HD 4870 ATI.

www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?HIS-48701

Compare that against to the nearest Nividia card&i think you will be surprised.I havn't found a Nividia card with DDR5 memory there all still DDR3.
Long post but hope it help's make your mindup

[moosea]

I got a broken nvidia 8600gts for sale!!

[abercrab]

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www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-geforce-price,2323.html

[]UBC[ Igor]

Jul 9, 2009 20:00:25 GMT ]UBC[xacuit said:

I started having problem's(black wall's,ground&sky)so i bought a Sapphire HD4870 1gb DDR5 card which cost £150.00.I am still having the problems but not as bad.So i am in the prosses off upgrading my motherboard&processor.

Have you think about the RAM memory on your motherboard? Mine was dying and I had many of this black wall and sky. With new one, everything came back to normal.

I deduce that the dead memory couldn't load properly some of the textures

About the gfx card, I also buy a 4870 from sapphire, the performance are very good for the price, but it warm a lot and it's a bit noisy. A strong power supply is also recommanded.