Best Graphics For £100

[angelus214]

yes its a small amount of money given todays graphics requirements. However for £100 what would you guys say is the best graphics card that will work WELL with X3

[Galaxy613]

Prepare to be moved over to off-topic. All computer tech questions go over there. Also theres tons of other computer upgrade threads there you should take a look at!

[Al]

Look in the off-topic board for suggestions in the numerous threads that are on this subject already.

Al

[X-Morgan]

Try and go for one of the 6800 LE Editions, they can be unlocked (if you are VERY lucky) and unlock all 12 pipes and that should give you nice GFX in X3, some guy in the US managed to unlock all 16 pipes on the LE.....lucky git

[Cycrow]

Try and go for one of the 6800 LE Editions, they can be unlocked (if you are VERY lucky) and unlock all 12 pipes and that should give you nice GFX in X3, some guy in the US managed to unlock all 16 pipes on the LE.....lucky git

not just in the us, alot of ppl have managed to unlock them to 16 pipelines, especially the newer batchs

the leadteks have one of the best succes rates for doing this

but even as standard, the 6800LE are still pretty good gfx cards, and should be fine for x3

[X-Morgan]

Yeah the Leadteks have a very good sucess rate, about 85% me thinks, but with my GeForce 2 MX400 do you think I can play X3?

[Galaxy613]

But isn't the 6800LE more then 100pounds? Thats more money then he wants to spend if you read his post.

[donotdespisethesnake]

There's loads of cards going on ebay, people like me floggin their old SLI kit I have 6800 Ultra and 2 6600GT to go...I reckon a 6800/6600 GT would be pretty good for X3.

[Cycrow]

But isn't the 6800LE more then 100pounds? Thats more money then he wants to spend if you read his post.

nope the leadtek one is £80 from overclockers.co.uk

[Captain Kremen]

Watch out for the Gforce Nvidia 6800XT card that is about to be released it is aimed at the budget gamers market and should be better tha a 6600gt in that it has more pipes and is 256bit rather than 128 bit processing - they should be out for about £120 shop around though & go for a good make as they tend to put faster memory & better heatsinks on

[Mopy]

Watch out for the Gforce Nvidia 6800XT card that is about to be released it is aimed at the budget gamers market and should be better tha a 6600gt in that it has more pipes and is 256bit rather than 128 bit processing - they should be out for about £120 shop around though & go for a good make as they tend to put faster memory & better heatsinks on

Where did you hear 6600GT's are 128 bit?

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/spec ... NOV-GF66GT

That's mine right there, and it's most deffinately 256 bit.

[muppetts]

The FX 5700 256mb is mid ranged, has pixel shading support (x3) and comes in at 100 quid.

[The_Abyss]

It is also grossly underpowered in today's market unfortunately.

[Captain Kremen]

Watch out for the Gforce Nvidia 6800XT card that is about to be released it is aimed at the budget gamers market and should be better tha a 6600gt in that it has more pipes and is 256bit rather than 128 bit processing - they should be out for about £120 shop around though & go for a good make as they tend to put faster memory & better heatsinks on

Where did you hear 6600GT's are 128 bit?

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/spec ... NOV-GF66GT

That's mine right there, and it's most deffinately 256 bit.

I cant understand that unless there are a mixture of chips on different manufactures cards I thought it was based on the Nvidia NV43 chipset

as stated on toms hardware - not like that site to be wrong + I bought a 6800GT last month after seeing how it outperformed the 6600GT

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphi ... index.html

[CBJ]

The FX 5700 256mb is mid ranged, has pixel shading support (x3) and comes in at 100 quid.

The 6600GT is a much better card for only a few pounds/dollars/euros more. Also in this range are the X800GT and the X800GTO, both of which are also considerably better than the 5700.

[Mopy]

Watch out for the Gforce Nvidia 6800XT card that is about to be released it is aimed at the budget gamers market and should be better tha a 6600gt in that it has more pipes and is 256bit rather than 128 bit processing - they should be out for about £120 shop around though & go for a good make as they tend to put faster memory & better heatsinks on

Where did you hear 6600GT's are 128 bit?

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/spec ... NOV-GF66GT

That's mine right there, and it's most deffinately 256 bit.

I cant understand that unless there are a mixture of chips on different manufactures cards I thought it was based on the Nvidia NV43 chipset

as stated on toms hardware - not like that site to be wrong + I bought a 6800GT last month after seeing how it outperformed the 6600GT

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphi ... index.html

Greets,

Looks like you could be right. It's amazing though how many contradictions there are. Searching on Google, there's lots of reviews and other stores that state they're using a 256bit version. There's others that say there is no 256bit version too. Strange indeed.

Still rather have a 6800GT though. Wasn't a buy one get one free by any chance?

[muppetts]

The FX 5700 256mb is mid ranged, has pixel shading support (x3) and comes in at 100 quid.

The 6600GT is a much better card for only a few pounds/dollars/euros more. Also in this range are the X800GT and the X800GTO, both of which are also considerably better than the 5700.

To date I have not found a game (RTW, Silent Hunter III, HL2, X2, battlefield 2, Guild Wars) that has displayed any significant slow down with the extras on. I can only state that in my experience this is a stable card that performs well. I have seen now it can be picked up for 80 US dollars (about 45 Quid).

[Cycrow]

Watch out for the Gforce Nvidia 6800XT card that is about to be released it is aimed at the budget gamers market and should be better tha a 6600gt in that it has more pipes and is 256bit rather than 128 bit processing - they should be out for about £120 shop around though & go for a good make as they tend to put faster memory & better heatsinks on

Where did you hear 6600GT's are 128 bit?

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/spec ... NOV-GF66GT

That's mine right there, and it's most deffinately 256 bit.

I cant understand that unless there are a mixture of chips on different manufactures cards I thought it was based on the Nvidia NV43 chipset

as stated on toms hardware - not like that site to be wrong + I bought a 6800GT last month after seeing how it outperformed the 6600GT

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphi ... index.html

Its the memory bandwidth that is 128it on the 6600 cards
the novatech site states the graphics core as 256bit, which is differnet

[Captain Kremen]

Watch out for the Gforce Nvidia 6800XT card that is about to be released it is aimed at the budget gamers market and should be better tha a 6600gt in that it has more pipes and is 256bit rather than 128 bit processing - they should be out for about £120 shop around though & go for a good make as they tend to put faster memory & better heatsinks on

Where did you hear 6600GT's are 128 bit?

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/spec ... NOV-GF66GT

That's mine right there, and it's most deffinately 256 bit.

I cant understand that unless there are a mixture of chips on different manufactures cards I thought it was based on the Nvidia NV43 chipset

as stated on toms hardware - not like that site to be wrong + I bought a 6800GT last month after seeing how it outperformed the 6600GT

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphi ... index.html

Its the memory bandwidth that is 128it on the 6600 cards
the novatech site states the graphics core as 256bit, which is differnet

Nice one Cycrow
I didnt spot that I think your right
Sites also embarassingly get the 256bit and 256Mb mixed up
either way the 6600GT is a good card but there is a heck of an increase with the 6800GT have the AGP version and it beats my friends duel 6600GT PCI-e cards hands down on most benchmarks & Game demos

Not sure what the 6800XT is going to be yet - bobably a hybrid but hopefully around the £100

[Guest]

I have noticed over the last couple of days an increase in threads about graphics cards and computer upgrades in preparation for X3. Some of these are being locked as they are considered duplication. That's OK as maybe the posters of the later threads should have used search, but that is not the most friendly tool to use.

So I suggest maybe that a thread about graphics cards and computer upgrades re X3 is stickied so that people can see it straight away. This may stop what will become a deluge of threads as the release date gets nearer, as people will obviously want to get the best they can out of X3 when it is here.