cheap video card, what do you think?

[glockjs]

http://shop4.outpost.com/product/3982928


dont really wanna spend all that much. lookin for a cheap solution. opinions?

[teegee420]

I'd get it, and I just might.

[glockjs]

well i gotta alot of room to improve since im running a 16mb diamond viper

this would be like trading in an 83 buick wagon for an 04 escalade.

there's also a pretty nice nvidia 5200 for $120 on the same page ad, im still debating on how cheap i actually wanna be though

[glockjs]

http://shop1.outpost.com/product/3982848


i was lookin through other card from frys, for $30 more you can get a 9600se.

[teegee420]

That one looks nice too. I'm not really sure how much of a difference between the two chips there is. For the extra money you should be getting DDR VRAM. Maybe that's not very realistic for under $100. If it were me, I'd get the cheapo one and save for a genuine ATI. But then again I'm not really into gaming.

[glockjs]

im not into gaming either. thats why i have no clue. just want a card that would make video look a little nicer, and able to play a game maybe once in awhile. for games i'll stick to my ps2. socom is still the shiznit.

[freestyler]

Weak card. Text is wavy if you look real close, and it's very hard to see my bios settings because it waves like crazy while my system boots.

I bought that Kaser temporarily while waiting on an RMA for my 9700 pro. Once my replacement card came back in the mail I returned it.

[teegee420]

I'm using the ATI Radeon 7500 chipset and it's fine for me. It's old technology but it suits me fine. I can play Madden, NBA Live and Tony Hawk to my satisfaction. The only game I wasn't pleased with as far as my GPU performance was the recent Prince Of Persia. The frame rate was terrible. I'm pretty sure you'd be happy with the $50 card. If you become a more serious PC gamer afterwards you'll probably end up spending much more than $100 on your next card.

[glockjs]

think i'll go back to wal mart and see if can get a 9200 aiw. i saw one last night and it was mis marked on clearance for 50 bucks, it was a 64mb 9000 that was on clearance. of course i get to the register and it comes up 150 bucks. now its wal mart, im more than sure if i bitched and moaned to a manager how it was marked on clearance on the shelf as this and that i would get it. i was feelin nice last night. but i want a video card now damnit.

[flaninacupboard]

don't get a 9600se, they're worse than a 9200.

in this country if it has a price on it/next to it they HAVE to sell at that price. never forget, PC world sold an old lame PC for £400, i watched them put a brand new machine there (must have been worth £2500 at the time) still with a £400 price tag above it. next guy in the shop bought it for £400, and there was nothing they could do.

[offline]

flaninacupboard said: in this country if it has a price on it/next to it they HAVE to sell at that price

Pretty much the same the world over - it's called "invitation to treat"
and it forms an instant valid contract if accepted by the buyer. This
is echoed in international law but, of course, some cultures attempt a different policy.

[Cobra]

if it has a price on it/next to it they HAVE to sell at that price

I find that a lot of staff will fight about this, and since I worked in a supermarket they fought more commonly over mistaken buy on get one free offers.

I used to have it checked and if it was in the slightest bit misleading, the customer got the benefit regardless of how much management whined. I'd expect the same treatment myself.

In response to the original question, I have had a lot of success with the GeForce MX series. They give a lot of bang for your buck. The MX4000 is a 128MB card, too.

Cobra

[flaninacupboard]

yeah, im pretty pleased with my geforce4, similar performance to the vanilla 5700, and nowhere near as expensive!!

[spiderman2k1]

I go to www.pricewatch.com and get e cheep ATI AIW

[glockjs]

ok so this is the one i picked up per recomended by the rep. i have not opened it yet, lookin for some opinions. oh yeah and he said pretty confidently the kaser was a piece of shit

http://shop4.outpost.com/product/3964968


now he told me that there is no difference between nvidia's basic 5200 and 4000. i have no clue if thats true.

this is the card i was gonna get and was talked out of

http://shop4.outpost.com/product/3924378

he told me that the 440 was over priced and old technology.

im clueless, it's been years since ive actually payed attention to video cards.

this is basically the list i have to choose from, pretty much in the anything under $90 price range for me.

http://shop4.outpost.com/category/Outpost/PCtab/Video+Cards/Shop+by+Video+Memory/128MB

heeeeellllppp

[thor300]

The link you posted in the first post, very bad, it takes quite strong nerves to say SE and 3D in the same sentence for radeon cards. SE is really not good for 3D. For me, 3D is no problem so i have 9200SE, i find games to best on the Xbox, PC is a tool and not a game

[glockjs]

im the same way...my ps2 is all the gaming i need. but the thing thats got me on that 440 card is

DVD-and HDTV-ready MPEG-2 decoding up to 1920x1080i ATSC format

[flaninacupboard]

i don't even know what the 4000 is.....

this gives you an idea of how graphics cards stack up against each other.

http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/20031229/vga-charts-03.html#unreal_tournament_2003

Grab a second hand geforce4 Ti, or radeon 9500.

[glockjs]

thanks flaninacupboard, that helps. from what i see, if the 4000 is pretty much the same as the 5200 im not gonna worry about it too much. they look all about the same in my price range. im not gonna stress about it any more. just gonna throw this one in and see what it does.

[glockjs]

ok so i changed my mind again. im worse than a woman.

http://shop4.outpost.com/product/3628405

this is my final final choice. for $35 more it has a fan and beats the one i got by 10-20 fps easy. its an ultra and also has the dv i out(im thinkin for the future) thanks for all the input people.

[teegee420]

ok so i changed my mind again. im worse than a woman.

http://shop4.outpost.com/product/3628405

this is my final final choice. for $35 more it has a fan and beats the one i got by 10-20 fps easy. its an ultra and also has the dv i out(im thinkin for the future) thanks for all the input people.

Christ, why don't you buy a few pairs of shoes while you're at it. :P

[glockjs]

that skirt would look cute with my outfit too!

im such a whore

[flaninacupboard]

ahaha, nice one.

The 5200U is a much better card, for some reason only the U's seem worth touching. mind you don't get boned though, some companies over here were calling their products ULTRA!!!! when the actual chips were vanilla

i still stand by my suggestion though, check out http://search-completed.ebay.com/ti4400_W0QQfromZR10QQsbrftogZ1QQsofocusZsoQQsoitemstatusZ2

although don't know if that will work. basically it's completed items from ebay.com called ti4400. they go for ~$55, and if you look on toms graph again you'll see they whoop the 5200U, and even just beat the 5700!

Or if you want to spend a few more $ http://search-completed.ebay.com/9700_Desktop-PC-Components_W0QQcatrefZC12QQfromZR10QQ...soitemstatusZ2 is completed radeon 9700 pros, ~$130 but faster than FX5900 and faster than radeon 9800!