GEEKS / TECHIES ASSEMBLE! - Graphics card

[YorkshirePud]

To me my cohorts!

right the time has come to give my desktop tower a present, and its going to be a graphics card, its been a while since i slid back the cover but i discovered a PCI Express x16 slot

now on to what i do with the computer, i dont play games on it any more, if i do they are ten years old or more, things like Jedi Knight and star wars sims, what i do tend to do is have quite a few graphic heavy things going at one time, not anything like photochop but enough to clutter the screen and give the poor Mobos GPU a headache.

im thinking of a minimum of 512mb of onboard memory, and less than £30

windows XP pc btw

suggestions and advice my cohorts

[DJ-Daz]

512mb GPU memory for less than £30?
That'll be a struggle.

ATI Radeon

Nvidia Gforce 210

Very basic graphics cards, depending on what you have now, you may be better sticking with what you got, increase system ram, and if it's shared memory - allocate more to the GPU

[redVENGEANCE]

or this:

http://www.dabs.com/products/zotac-gefo ... 4294944469

[YorkshirePud]

already have 1GB of ram installed, is a win xp home machine, i could put more ram in but ill enjoy looking for the card and installing, need to keep my IT skills busy while im out of work, might as well tart up the Pudding Computer

[InfiniteStates]

...what i do tend to do is have quite a few graphic heavy things going at one time, not anything like photochop but enough to clutter the screen and give the poor Mobos GPU a headache.

suggestions and advice my cohorts

Just have one porn film on at a time? :x

[YorkshirePud]

xtube ftw

na just normally quite a cluttered screen, a fellow techie i know might be sending me his GE Force based card soon