ADVICE - new graphics card

[robsthebest]

hey im looking to get a new PCI-E graphics card , im looking to spend about £70 ish,
am currently running
vista premium 32 bit
amd phenom 9500 2.2 quad
ocz 2 x 2 gb mem

im looking for one with dual output as am wanting to run dual monitors, is there anything anyone can suggest, i was looking at :

http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Graphics+Cards/PCI-E/nVIDIA+GeForce+8+Series/nVidia+GeForce+8600GT+1024MB+DDR2+PCI-E+?productId=29836

i want something that is going run games pretty well and be good all rounder

[marsey99]

http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/Other+products/ATI+Radeon+HD+3850+256MB+-+PCI-E2.0+?productId=29975

is about the best card in that price range, but tbh i would try and save for a 3870 (http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Graphics+Cards/PCI-E/ATI+Radeon+3000+Series/ATI+Radeon+HD+3870+512MB+PCI-E+?productId=29782)or 8800gt (http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/Other+products/nVidia+GeForce+8800GT+512MB+PCI-E+?productId=29148) if you can as both are miles better for gaming and will last a bit longer before you need to upgrade.


with graphics cards you really do get what you pay for m8.


you might want to get a 64bit windows too if you want to use all that ram.

[Mul.]

Or bare minimum, the 512mb version of the Radeon HD 3850.
http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/Other+products/ATI+Radeon+HD+3850+512MB+PCI-E2.0+?productId=29977

It's actually very close to the HD 3870 in terms of performance and that's probably the max I'd pay for a 3800 given the price of the 8800GT at present.

The 8600GT 1GB that's been selected is far from an all rounder I'm afraid. 32 stream processors, 1GB of crippled DDR2 memory and a 128bit memory interface is definitely no good particularly at £66. Any of marsey's or my suggestions will do a far better job.