Cheap gaming graphics card

wonderfullife_2

shaggy wrote:

I'm after the 9800 Radeon All IN Wonder. No one seems to be stocking them brand new, and theyre going for silly prices on EBAY. DOes anyone know any good suppliers stocking the 128Mb version of these?

Loads of places selling them but what price do you want to pay?
Amazon
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index%3Delectronics-uk%26field-keywords%3Dradeon%209800%26results-process%3Ddefault%26dispatch%3Dsearch/ref%3Dpd%5Fsl%5Faw%5Ftops-2%5Felectronics-uk%5F7061182%5F1/026-1916843-8791642

Hope this helps

shaggy

wonderfullife wrote:

Loads of places selling them but what price do you want to pay?
Amazon
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index%3Delectronics-uk%26field-keywords%3Dradeon%209800%26results-process%3Ddefault%26dispatch%3Dsearch/ref%3Dpd%5Fsl%5Faw%5Ftops-2%5Felectronics-uk%5F7061182%5F1/026-1916843-8791642

Hope this helps

would prefer to pay less than the 90 quid theyre going for on average on ebay

ollyshaw

I agree with wolfman.

Get yourself a 6600gt, mine is great!

Olly

shaggy

ollyshaw wrote:

I agree with wolfman.

Get yourself a 6600gt, mine is great!

Olly

I already have a 6600 GT. Far too many problems with it as it hogs power like no body's business.

wolfman

shaggy wrote:

I already have a 6600 GT. Far too many problems with it as it hogs power like no body's business.

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Not sure if "hogs" is the right word. A graphics card will use up a lot of power, especially if it's one of the better ones. You just need to make sure you have a capable psu (one with at least 18-20A on the 12v rail).

Also there will be some slight variation depending upon which make of 6600GT you get. Maybe read around check reviews for each manufacturer.

A 9800 Pro will be a small step down from a 6600GT.

Toxteth_OGrady

Get a 9800 Pro and flash the BIOS to a 9800 XT. Buy an £80 card and upgrade it to a £120 card for nothing. The R350 gpu overclocks very well and will run as an XT on stock cooling.

:cool:

TOG

titewad_2

Is this a difficult thing to do and does it carry any risk of damage to any components? I am guessing it invalidates any warranty?

Toxteth_OGrady

Pretty straightforward providing you find the right bios. There is a slightly higher risk than running at stock speed. However quite often ATI uses the same gpu chip for a range of cards and bios mod the different capabilities. For example the X800 XT PE is the same chip and memory as the X800 Pro but the Pro has 4 of the available 16 pixel pipelines disabled in the bios and runs at slower clock speed.

One of my rigs has an X800Pro bios modded to be an X800XT PE and on another rig I have a 9800 Pro modded to an XT. The 9800 has been running fine for over a year on stock cooling and is fully stable on all graphics benchmarks and stress test plus games.

As for the warranty then I guess yes. But if the card has failed catastrophically there will be now way to tell. If the card degrades but still powers up just flash the bios back to the original before RMAing it.

:cool:

TOG