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Need help finding a good video card for a cheap price

I have a crappy video card (SiS Xabre) and i need a better one. This is mainly to play unreal tournament 2004. But i have only a $80 to spend. What would you recoomend? Used video card is not out of the question.(Please provide web site name if possible)
 
I would say pick up a Geforce 4 TI 4200 or so from ebay. (www.ebay.com lol) RUns about 50-60 bucks
And definately look in the FS/Trade forum here on anandtech. 5700 LE 256 mb/256 bit are also around 80 (maybe even less).
 
Originally posted by: TacoNapsack
and how good would this run on unreal tourney

Alot will also depend on what the rest of your system looks like, i.e. CPU, mobo, memory, etc.
 
Originally posted by: Computer MAn
Originally posted by: Melchior
I would say pick up a Geforce 4 TI 4200 or so from ebay. (www.ebay.com lol) RUns about 50-60 bucks
And definately look in the FS/Trade forum here on anandtech. 5700 LE 256 mb/256 bit are also around 80 (maybe even less).


Please provide link because i can only find it for 120 bucks?
 
Here
Is an E-bay Buy it now of the Ti4200 new for about $68 shipped. You can get them for about $55 shipped if you do an auction. Go to ebay and search on Ti4200. I got 23 matches when I searched a few minutes ago.
 
Originally posted by: TacoNapsack
Is there any noticable diff between 64 bit and 128 bit. b/c i could get a 64 bit if it works well on unreal 2k4

If you're asking about a 64-bit card like the 9600SE, it performs MUCH worse than the 128-bit 9600 or 9600Pro. See the benchmarks I linked to above.
 
I have no problems using 5200. 5500 are good for ut. There is a guy selling a retail 5500 for 60 shipped. 128mb though, no difference with 256.
 
Originally posted by: TacoNapsack
Originally posted by: Computer MAn
Originally posted by: Melchior
I would say pick up a Geforce 4 TI 4200 or so from ebay. (www.ebay.com lol) RUns about 50-60 bucks
And definately look in the FS/Trade forum here on anandtech. 5700 LE 256 mb/256 bit are also around 80 (maybe even less).


Please provide link because i can only find it for 120 bucks?

Ti4200 free shippng
 
i had a fx5200 128 pci legacy running as recently as three weeks ago. i'm sure the agp is even better. i had no probs running ut2004, hl2, madden05, and doom3 on it. give AT FS/FT a try. great buys there.
 
man, I just bought a gf4 for $45 of the FS/FT forum, go check it out! There are a couple ti4400 128 meg going for 55-60 and those would run all over any fx card for the games you are talking about.
 
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