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I hate it when I think i've got myself hold of a right bargain, then someone comes and pee's on my bonfire, by pointing out that they've found it cheaper somewhere else.
From what i've read, that's not a bad little card at all though, i've seen them selling for £65-£70 in some places and I bet some mugs would probably be daft enough to pay that, instead of doing a bit of searching to find it at a good price.
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I hate it when I think i've got myself hold of a right bargain, then someone comes and pee's on my bonfire, by pointing out that they've found it cheaper somewhere else.
From what i've read, that's not a bad little card at all though, i've seen them selling for £65-£70 in some places and I bet some mugs would probably be daft enough to pay that, instead of doing a bit of searching to find it at a good price.
whats the difference between AGP and PCI?
is it easy to put in ur computer and install it?
i need a new graphics card desperatly, will the one on the link on ebay be good enough to run world of warcraft and the sims 2 smoothly?
AGP and PCI are the 2 different card slots you got ion your motherboard (i think) The graphics card will run both of those games smoothly but its not all down to graphics cards, you may need more ram or processing speed. I upgraded my gfx card lately and I can run wow very smoothly indeed now and the graphics card isn't as good as the one on ebay :O
PCI-E is minimally better than AGP. The 4 pipelines that the graphics card linked in this thread stops me from buying it. Graphics cards nowadays are even using up to 32 pipelines ;/
You should try overclocking your 6200. People have gotten them upto or close to vanilla 6600 speeds.
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Originally Posted by Emotionless
PCI-E is minimally better than AGP. The 4 pipelines that the graphics card linked in this thread stops me from buying it. Graphics cards nowadays are even using up to 32 pipelines ;/
If you can tell me what Graphics card is using 32 pixel pipelines I'd be happy Don't even bother about Quadro cards (I don't know the specs of them, but nobody's going to get a professional card like that)
The 7800GTX 'only' comes with 24 pipelines, and the X1800XT comes with 16 (They planned for 32, it didn't happen).
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Originally Posted by zaammk
Not much diff between PCI-E and AGP, PCI-E is a little bit faster. All that really matters when buying is which one your motherboard has.
It has twice the bandwidth of the AGP bus. So, technically cards could be quite a bit faster...but most modern cards barely make the most of the 8x bandwidth of an AGP slot, nevermind the 16 of the PCI-E bus. When newer cards come out that are more efficient with bandwidth comsumption, you'll see a difference (but that could be a bit of time before you see this happen)
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