Budget gaming card

drlight_2

What graphics card will be most compatible playing games

Connect3D Radeon 9550 SE 128MB DDR (OEM) £39.52

Inno3D NVIDIA GeForce 6200 256M £50.52

Hightech Radeon 9550SE 128MB DDR 64Bit AGPx8 TV-Out DVI-I £29.35

MY budget is about £50,
I have a geforce fx5200 ultra that I'm setting up in my nephews pc to play spiderman & bf2.


Pc spec is Athlon 1800xp, 512mb ram, hardware sound. 133 udma.

hendersonb

Never had any problems with the InnoVision Nvidia cards, we stock several of them and have had no problems with games not running due to incompatibility. After I had a radeon a few years back I will never buy another ATI card (once bitten, twice shy and all that). Never had a problem with any of the Nvidia cards i've used ever since.

Apart from that any ATI or Nvidia card should be very well supported by any game, they are the largest chipsets supported for games and driver updates are good on both manufacturers.

mr_fishbulb

Have a look at this one:
http://www.ebuyer.co.uk/customer/products/index.html?rb=15604256743&action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X3Jldmlld3M=&product_uid=89201

It's a 9600 bios but a 9550 chip so it can be overclocked tremendiously.

Mark_LJ

Both ATI and Nvidia have tremendous ranges to suit everyone - currently running 4 machines with a mixture of both and have no problems. ATI did have problems with some drivers a few years back but there are no problems with them now. You might look at Retek Direct . I've bought about 15 cards of them - only had a problem with one and their returns policy was excellent. Of particular value is the 9800se with the 256bit memory interface - some of these cards will 'softmod' using the Omega drivers (no skill is involved - just install the Omega ATI drivers and if a card is suitable to be softmodded it'll work). This means you'd be getting a 9800pro for £34.