cheapest PCI-E card w/....

[Fayd]

better performance than a radeon 9700?

i'm upgrading my computer for more silence and better proc... but i dont want to get a worse video card, lol.

 

[lopri]

7600 GT maybe? Not the cheapest but cheap enough. Certainly cheaper than what you paid for a Radeon 9700 back then. 😉

 

[eplebnista]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814121071

 

[dandragonrage]

7600GT would be a good choice. Don't touch 8500*. 8600GTS would be good enough (but still not good in the absolute sense) but the 8x00 series eats too much power so I wouldn't recommend it anyway.

 

[MarcVenice]

The 8x00 lower-midrange series underperform compared to the dx9 cards out there for the same price. Unless your looking for HDMI capabilities and such, it's not recommended to buy a low/midrange dx10 card.

7600gt, not sure if it comes passively cooled, I know the 7600gs does though, doesn't run to hot, and is of course very quiet. It also should come fairly cheap, and still perform decently-ish in games, don't expect to be running stalker or something like that on high, at resolutions past 1024*786 😛

 

[f4phantom2500]

well um, pretty much any card is gonna be better than a radeon 9700, especially the non pro version. i know the 6600gt is a tad faster than a 9800xt, and i think i read the 7300gt's are about on par with the 6600gt. in any case, pretty much any geforce 7 series or radeon x1k series card will at least match a radeon 9700.

 

[hans007]

9700 is barely faster than a x700 pro. so i suppose by that logic a 6600gt or something would be faster and really cheap

 

[Tates]

Originally posted by: hans007
9700 is barely faster than a x700 pro. so i suppose by that logic a 6600gt or something would be faster and really cheap

QFT...just picked up an XFX 6600GT PCIe locally for my daughters rig...$30..that's cheap

 

[hans007]

Originally posted by: Tates

Originally posted by: hans007
9700 is barely faster than a x700 pro. so i suppose by that logic a 6600gt or something would be faster and really cheap

QFT...just picked up an XFX 6600GT PCIe locally for my daughters rig...$30..that's cheap

i picked up 2 on ebay for $50 shipped... sadly by accident because i bid and forgot i did, and amazingly won... they'll be in fs/ft soon. haha

 

[Fayd]

i had forgotten about the 6600's.

i think that's what i'm gonna do.



like i said above, i'm not *too* interested in graphics performance, more for cheapness.

as far as cooling goes, i have a VF900 that has lost it's home, searching for a new one. so that'll do...assuming compatibility isnt a problem.

this rig doesnt do anything pretty much but bot in lineage 2. it's an ingame bot, running 2 instances minimum. that's it. the 9700 works just fine for it's purposes, but i want a new card capable of taking the video card fan i'm gonna give it. and it has to be PCI-E, cause i'm changing out the motherboard as well to whatever is cheapest and available at frys.