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[BlackLegion]

my curent GFX card is a: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200, 125mb

Im saving for a:Nvidia XpertVision GF6200/TD 512M 64Bit AGP.

Its costs $169 australian, thats about 70 British Pound or sbout $129 USD

do you guys think its a good idea to upgrade to this?

To me it sounds and looks cool.

[BlackLegion]

any comments at all?

[Marcjs]

well i got a nivda 256meg geforce 4 6600 for 100

last time i checked all the 512meg GFX cards were about 400

they must have gone down in price fast

[BlackLegion]

well the shop i get my computer parts from have good good deals

[Calamity_Jones]

i've got a 5200 too... It works great for my needs, so the card you're getting must be pretty good, and at that price, it's ntot bad for a graphics card:P

as always though you should check the online shops like amazon and ebuyer etc

[BlackLegion]

i'll check those shops out but i find it unliky to be cheeper

by the way i never know of ebuyer befor. Do you mean ebay?

[Calamity_Jones]

nope, ebuyer, i've got lots of stuff from them, they're very good

ebuyer

although the prices look higher than the one you quoted

[Torn]

5200 is an AWFUL card. 6200 isn't particulary a very good card either. You can get an X700 (what boomer now has I believe) for the same price. Or you could go into the realms of the X800 and 6800, like what i'm looking at buying (replacing my shitty 9600).

[BlackLegion]

I cant realy aford a 6800 or x800 for that matter

any way my current gfx card dosent lag on any of my games exept farcry and only on high detail, one of the mane resones i want a new gfx card is so i can play battlefield 2 and have high detail on farcry.

tell my what are the x700's like? I thik one of my friends have one of them, he says they are good for textures but they are not that power full and he wants to upgraid to some thing els

EDIT: I dont have PCI express so i cant get that x700 (at least from the shop im using)

Edited by BlackLegion, 11 September 2005 - 11:29 PM.

[Torn]

YOu can get AGP X700s. They are the equivelent of an nvidia 6600 I would think, but if your friend says they arn't very powerful, then a 6200 can only be worse. However, if that's the limit of your budget, then go for it .

[Calamity_Jones]

if the 5200 is an awful card, and I can run most high detail games quite comfortably with mine, then an x700 must be fucking insane

[Torn]

The 6200 is worth half of what you are thinking of paying btw. Should be around 45 GBP.

[BlackLegion]

ASUS GF6200/TD 256MB AGP $131aus = 55.3465 GBP

GIGABYTE GF6200/TD 128Mb 64bit AGP $125aus = 52.8043 GBP

XpertVision GF6200/TD 256M 64bit AGP $99aus = 41.8210 GBP

**XpertVision GF6200/TD 512M 64Bit AGP** $169aus = 71.4012 GBP

the one in the ** ** is the one im planing to get and from the shop im geting if from is the only 512mb.

here is a link to the site's gfx page

[Torn]

Why the hell do you want a 512mb 6200. If you are gonna get a card with a lot of memory, atleast make it good.

[BlackLegion]

I dont have the money for you perseption of good.

[BlackLegion]

Leadtek 256M 6600/TD AGP $249 aus = 105.203 GBP

What about this card?

Edited by BlackLegion, 14 September 2005 - 09:33 AM.

[Torn]

I thought you didn't have the money. And yeah, it'll be fine.

[BlackLegion]

Nah, it will just take long for me to save up for it.

[Torn]

It's called getting a job.

[BlackLegion]

It's called, I dont want to because im a lazy prik