X1650Pro 65 Euro at Maplins

TerrorFirmer · 15-10-2007 11:28am #1

Perfect for the person who plays older games like Half Life 2 at high settings/newer games at lower settings. 512mb Version.

Cheapest one on Komplett is 66 exc delivery chargers so you can save a tenner or so and be able to walk into the store.

po0k · 15-10-2007 11:34am

link?

briman1983 · 15-10-2007 11:36am

It's in Maplions

Clover · 15-10-2007 1:24pm

picked this card from dads so i could get the orange box and play tf2 abit early , cost me €84though

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still it's a good little card for my old system and the orange box games all play well on it.

HungryJoey · 15-10-2007 1:28pm

Is this a PCI-e card ? Looking for something cheap to go into my Q6600 until some of the beafier new cards come out. I'm in no rush

Hj

TerrorFirmer · 15-10-2007 1:37pm

Yeah it's pci-e.

dubmick · 15-10-2007 1:50pm

would it be worth upgrading to one of these from a x1300 pro?

TerrorFirmer · 15-10-2007 2:11pm

Yes. Though its not a huge difference. Still a lower end card but great at titles like Team Fortress 2 and Half Life 2, etc, definitely a good upgrade over an x1300 for those. Just not so good for say, Bioshock and Unreal Tournament 3 and you'd still be confined to lower settings.

HungryJoey · 15-10-2007 2:47pm

I know this is a little off topic, but In PcWorld blanchardstown I picked up a Zalman CNPS8000 and it scanned in for €24.99 which is a good price for A Zalman heatpipe heatsink. It was displayed as €49.99. If anyones after a decent CPU cooler its a good one and good price.

http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews/zalman80009500/

I posted that there, didn't think it deserved its own thread

Hj

TJM · 15-10-2007 3:52pm

Thread hijack: Any suggestions for a reasonably priced card capable of handling Bioshock at medium settings? (In a p4 3.4 w/ 2gig ram).

po0k · 15-10-2007 4:02pm

reasonably-priced = 150euros tbh
1950Pro AGP.

TerrorFirmer · 15-10-2007 7:03pm

TJM wrote: »

Thread hijack: Any suggestions for a reasonably priced card capable of handling Bioshock at medium settings? (In a p4 3.4 w/ 2gig ram).

Assuming you're pci-e, x1950gt 98 euro on komplett

HungryJoey · 16-10-2007 8:01pm

Another hi-jack

Seen an ATi X1800XL 512MB PCI-e card for €89 in peats today. Thought it was an ok price for a cheap card in a local shop. Will play most games plesently well. Well worth the extra 20 euro over an X1650 if you want to play games. As mentioned also the X1950 is a nice little card on komplett for some affordable PCI-e card.

Hj

TerrorFirmer · 16-10-2007 8:06pm

You sure it was an X1800XL for 89? Its a good price, and not wholly surprisingly considering how cheap X1950GT's and the like are now, but for Peats that seems suspiciously cheap. It is a good card even now....

craichoe · 16-10-2007 8:22pm

Jaysus, i'm way behind ..

My last card was a 3dfx Voodoo 3500

After that i realised i wasnt really into games.

had a NEC PowerVR too .. remember the old S3 Trio 64 V+

Even a Cirrus Logic 2400 with a VESA interface !

Snake Plisken · 17-10-2007 5:47pm

Would this card be a decent step up from my current Radeon X800GTO2?

Thanks

TerrorFirmer · 17-10-2007 11:04pm

No, not really. They're good budget cards but are not performance parts. The only difference is that they do support shader model 3, so games that wouldn't run on the X800 would run on the X1650Pro, like Airborne, Bioshock, UE3, etc.

MOH · 18-10-2007 10:59am

Snake Plisken wrote: »

Would this card be a decent step up from my current Radeon X800GTO2?

Thanks

I find this quite useful for comparing relative value of gfx cards

Snake Plisken · 21-10-2007 10:44pm

MOH wrote: »

I find this quite useful for comparing relative value of gfx cards

Thanks for that according to the TH list its only on the list above my current card, but what if I bought two and crossfired them? or is the improvement only minimal?

TerrorFirmer · 21-10-2007 10:47pm

Yeah it's a new family supporting newer features but as a performance card the X1650Pro is poor. It wouldn't really even be an 'upgrade' apart from allowing you to run new games that require SM3. Crossfire would be a waste, seeing as for 130 euro (the price of two) you could get an X1950Pro which would lay waste to an X1650Pro crossfire setup. You can even get an X1950GT for 98 euro from Komplett. edit: Not to mention what HJ said above about X1800XL. If that is the right price then that's a clear winner for any potential budget gamers and it would be a kick ass upgrade from an X800.

The only value lying in this card is someone upgrading from a really old card, needs a stop gap, wants a cheap card they can walk in and buy to basically run a desktop, etc.

X1650Pro 65 Euro at Maplins

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