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Best BF2 AGP card for 250 euro

Vegeta

Hi all I think i melted my graphics card last night (playing guild wars of all things) so can you guys recomend any good graphics cards for BF2, have to be agp and round the 250 euro mark?? Tanks guys.........you see what i did there with no H in "thanks"....oh forget it

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AnCapaillMor

Worth the 30 yoyos extra. Kompletts agp selection is pretty bad.

Any of the ones here http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/6800_Series.html . never bought of overclockers.

Or

http://www.tekheads.co.uk/s/product?product=605232 Dealt with tekheads before seemed fine to deal with.

Vegeta

Thanks man they look pretty decent, would you suggest nvidia over ati for battlefield or is it 6 of one??

Ruffty^

When you autorun bf2 and the little menu comes up, doesn`t it have links to nvidia drivers site? That to me suggests EA prefere nvidia. Or maybe I`m blind and there are catalyst links too, not sure!

AnCapaillMor

Nvidia are EA's bitches or vice versa. Go nvidia i'd say.

spooky donkey

Yeah for EA stay to nvidia. Some games perfer ATI like the half life engin and Black and white 2. If i rember from the minium config though it runs on more low end ati cards than low end nvidia. My gforce 4 ti4600 wont run it but my crappy ATi card does, strange that.

SeantheMan

Yeah nVidia all the way.

I have a 6800 GT, and bought another 6800 GS for the other PC from Komplett who do great deals, and theyre in Ireland , so check them out deffo.

Tá an cheart ag anCapaillMor
I know its expensive, but if i were you id save an extra 30 quid and get the 6800 GS.
http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=317265&cks=PRL

The drastic,but best option for long term, would be a PCI-E motherboard and and a PCI-E Gfx card. As thats the future of Gfx cards, all the future ones will be developed with PCI-E in mind

Scruff

From what i've read teh 6800GS is the best AGP card at the moment.
Komplette(scandinavian), jes-computer (german) both set the thumbs up from boards people to buy off.

Vegeta

Yeah i'll prob get a 6800GS if my current graphics card can't be revived!! Goin buyin a zalman fan and trying that as it is a lot cheaper than the new graphics card option!!! Thanks guys

ambro25

Don't know if you picked up the Zahlmann idea from my reply to your post about your maybe-fried gfx card, but feel free to drop me a pm if you need a hand when you get that

Drapper

SeantheMan wrote:

Yeah nVidia all the way.

I have a 6800 GT, and bought another 6800 GS for the other PC from Komplett who do great deals, and theyre in Ireland , so check them out deffo.

Holland mate

Atlas_IRL

Does anyone know the difference between the GS and the GT...

just bought the GT but ppl have been sayin the gs is better...

there both quality either way but as Sean saidit would be better if u upgraded ur motherboard to pci-express because very few companies are making components with agp in mind...

Ponster

Well I guess that the GS is supposed to be better as it's the model that replaces the GT, though IMHO 'btter' is a very personal thing these days.

uberpixie

Ponster wrote:

Well I guess that the GS is supposed to be better as it's the model that replaces the GT, though IMHO 'btter' is a very personal thing these days.

The only reason the GS is replacing the GT is because it's cheaper to make than the GT.

The GS has 12 pipelines vs the GT, the only reason it can keep up with the GT at the moment is that the GS is clocked higher than the GT.

In the long run a GT will age better: it has more pipelines.

The GS will have a good year but after that will begin to fade quicker in performance than the GT due to having 4 pipelines less than the GT.

Have a look at a x850xt. It's the fastest card you can buy in agp for D3D games. Theres one for 200 sterling on overclockers.co.uk. An x800xl is also a dacent card and stacks up well against a 6800GT/GS.

ATI cards always seem to age very well. Look at the 9700 and 9800 series of cards. They can still hold their own at 1024 x 768.

A new 6600Gt is not much faster than a 9800 pro at that res.

Nvidia always seem to make the cards that are fast now, but in 6 months to a years time start to bleed performance in the later games.

Ati always seem to make cards that age really well. They don't start off at the fastest performance in the market but never seem to drop as much in performance in the later games as the nvidia stuff.

All in all ATI are always worth a look.

SeantheMan

By wednesday i'll have a 6800 GT in 1 pc and a 6800GS in my other.

Ill benchmark them on BF2, COD2 and Painkiller and tell ye which is the best

Ponster

This is always a useful site.

It compares the GT and GS in regards to BF2 (and other cards and other games)

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/games-2005_7.html