PC Graphics Cards

[DaveB]

The Video card in Mrs B's PC is dying, Looking for a replacement but I'm well behind on PC hardware these days. Any suggestions for a half decent video card for less than £100. Current card is an Nvidia 8500GT.

 

[Clippy]

I find PC Advsior's reviews pretty good.

What does the Mrs use the PC for?

 

[Fred Bloggs]

Thoroughly recommend one of these - Graphics card. Slightly over the budget but performs very well for the money IMO. Note that you may need to upgrade your PC power supply too, 1 - To get the right graphics card power supply connectors 2 - Modern graphics cards can take a lot of power to run. I upgraded to a 700Watt Corsair power supply when I installed this card. HTH.

 

[ee61re]

As Clippy said - what is the PC used for?

Also, does it have on-board graphics, as well as the dying card? If she doesn't play games, do 3D modelling, etc, it would probably be fine with the on-board.

 

[gingerjedi]

The Video card in Mrs B's PC is dying, Looking for a replacement but I'm well behind on PC hardware these days. Any suggestions for a half decent video card for less than £100. Current card is an Nvidia 8500GT.

Scan.co.uk: Leading supplier of GPU - NVIDIA

£30 will get you a card that cost £100+ 18 months ago, good enough for Crysis so plenty enough oomph for all but the very latest directx11 games.

 

[DaveB]

Thanks all,

The PC is used for general home computery stuff and playing a few games, but nothing cutting edge. Mostly MMO's that dont have huge demands for graphics power.

The link to Scan looks like it will provide the answer.

 

[xchaotic]

Don't know if it's not too late to recommend an Nvidia 460GTX 1GB.
Reason's:
1. it's Fermi done right - quiet fast and ultra modern (DX11 and all that), so it won't be obsolete for a while
2. Most modern games rely heavily on GPU so even your old PC will benefit from a beefy card like that
3. nVidia with it's CUDA architecture has more adoption in GPGPU computing space, so can fold proteins, encode videos (20x faster than on a CPU) and hopefully much more stuff very soon.

Currently that's the best bag for the buck and in the future you can just add another for a very scalable SLI setup.

 

[dinker]

I have a GTS250, under a £100 but plays Crysis at 1920x1200.

 

[suityou01]

The Video card in Mrs B's PC is dying, Looking for a replacement but I'm well behind on PC hardware these days. Any suggestions for a half decent video card for less than £100. Current card is an Nvidia 8500GT.

Bake it in the oven for 6.5 minutes at 190degC. Then allow to cool. Should work after that.




No I am not kidding.

 

[Scrag Meister]

Bake it in the oven for 6.5 minutes at 190degC. Then allow to cool. Should work after that.




No I am not kidding.

I did this with my 8800GTX and it worked fault free for about a week and then started failing again, I may try another bake at some point but am happily running a new GTX 470 at the moment.