06-19-2006, 08:41 AM
and I need your opinions. I have a Dimension 3000 desktop from Dell with 2.8ghz, and 512mb of RAM, but I have a POS onboard video card by intel. It truly just plain sucks. So I'm gonna buy a new one.
I have to stay in the $0-$50 range, since I'm a bit low on cash. Doesn't matter, anything's better than what I have now . So I looked around (ok, I looked on newegg, maybe I'll look elsewhere later), and have found 4 that looked ok:
So I ask you... do any of you have any experience with these cards... these GPUs? Personally (just from the user reviews really), I like the eVGA Geforce FX5200, but I really have no clue what to look for. 128mb is as much memory as I'm gonna find for a PCI card at that price, so I picked those. If you think I should look at some 64mb or maybe even 32mb cards, let me know. Thanks guys!
I have to stay in the $0-$50 range, since I'm a bit low on cash. Doesn't matter, anything's better than what I have now . So I looked around (ok, I looked on newegg, maybe I'll look elsewhere later), and have found 4 that looked ok:
Code:
Name Mem. Core Price DirectX OpenGL Type GPU
+------------------------------------+-----+------+---------+-------+--------+-----+--------------+
|eVGA Geforce MX4000 |128mb|250MHz| $39 | 7.0 | 1.3 | DDR |Geforce MX4000|
+------------------------------------+-----+------+---------+-------+--------+-----+--------------+
|eVGA Geforce FX5200 |128mb|250MHz| $46 | 9.0 | 1.3 | DDR |Geforce FX5200|
+------------------------------------+-----+------+---------+-------+--------+-----+--------------+
|HIS Hightech Radeon 9250 |128mb|240MHz| $49 | 8.0 | 1.4 | DDR |Radeon 9250 |
+------------------------------------+-----+------+---------+-------+--------+-----+--------------+
|POWERCOLOR Radeon 9250 |128mb|240MHz| $50 | 8.0 | 1.3 | DDR |Radeon 9250 |
+------------------------------------+-----+------+---------+-------+--------+-----+--------------+
So I ask you... do any of you have any experience with these cards... these GPUs? Personally (just from the user reviews really), I like the eVGA Geforce FX5200, but I really have no clue what to look for. 128mb is as much memory as I'm gonna find for a PCI card at that price, so I picked those. If you think I should look at some 64mb or maybe even 32mb cards, let me know. Thanks guys!