rough price for good tower

Benjidrummer · 07-28-2005, 03:00 PM

hello, im thinking of buying a new tower, ive already got a nice screen, keyboard etc, and ive seen loads on ebay, roughly how much in £'s would i be looking at for a tower that would run games such as stronghold 2, doom 3 etc, loads of them have 256mb integrated graphics, is this what i should stay clear of, because doesn't this mean its shared with the whole computer, and not very good, thanks

**apj101** · 07-28-2005, 03:06 PM

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loads of them have 256mb integrated graphics, is this what i should stay clear of, because doesn't this mean its shared with the whole computer, and not very good, thanks

yeah it will share the ram, and also the onboard graphics will probably be crap

**DCIScouts** · 07-28-2005, 03:31 PM

If you're planning on running Doom 3 and other games with those type of graphics and resource demands, you should get a fairly decent graphics card with AT LEAST 512MB of RAM and pretty much any processor should be fine for the games now, it's just a matter of how long it will be fine

. A good card for you to start with would be, from the ATI group, a Radeon 9600 or from the NVidia group a GeForce 6600. But those are to start with... Here's a link to a site that will give a better overview of the capabilities of a lot of the cards that are out there right now:
http://graphics.tomshardware.com/gra...705/index.html

**apj101** · 07-28-2005, 04:00 PM

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AT LEAST 512MB of RAM

Having a graphics card with 512mb is not that important, or are you saying that a 6800ultra is a bad card

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130196

Benjidrummer · 07-28-2005, 05:05 PM

so if i buy a tower off ebay, like this one

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...221029496&rd=1

and then i updated the graphics card to one like this

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...sPageName=WDVW

would that work?

beacuse the 512mb cards are really expensive

StasysPC · 07-28-2005, 07:43 PM

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beacuse the 512mb cards are really expensive

I think he meant a decent graphics card and 512 MB of SYSTEM RAM, not Graphics RAM

**Praetor** · 08-01-2005, 06:23 AM

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should get a fairly decent graphics card with AT LEAST 512MB of RAM

I know what you mean but it's important to clarify that's "a fairly decent graphics card" and "a machine with at least 512MB of RAM"

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from the ATI group, a Radeon 9600 or from the NVidia group a GeForce 6600

Well if the 6600 is in the picture, you should prolly scale ATI's out to 9800Pro (for price matching)

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Having a graphics card with 512mb is not that important, or are you saying that a 6800ultra is a bad card

Nah he just forgot a comma

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and then i updated the graphics card to one like this

You could ... but that videocard is crap ... it's just a slightly upclocked 5200

07-28-2005, 03:00 PM	#1 (permalink)
Benjidrummer Bronze Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 42	rough price for good tower hello, im thinking of buying a new tower, ive already got a nice screen, keyboard etc, and ive seen loads on ebay, roughly how much in £'s would i be looking at for a tower that would run games such as stronghold 2, doom 3 etc, loads of them have 256mb integrated graphics, is this what i should stay clear of, because doesn't this mean its shared with the whole computer, and not very good, thanks

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07-28-2005, 03:31 PM	#3 (permalink)
DCIScouts Super Moderator Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA Age: 25 Posts: 5,049	If you're planning on running Doom 3 and other games with those type of graphics and resource demands, you should get a fairly decent graphics card with AT LEAST 512MB of RAM and pretty much any processor should be fine for the games now, it's just a matter of how long it will be fine . A good card for you to start with would be, from the ATI group, a Radeon 9600 or from the NVidia group a GeForce 6600. But those are to start with... Here's a link to a site that will give a better overview of the capabilities of a lot of the cards that are out there right now: http://graphics.tomshardware.com/gra...705/index.html

07-28-2005, 05:05 PM	#5 (permalink)
Benjidrummer Bronze Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 42	so if i buy a tower off ebay, like this one http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...221029496&rd=1 and then i updated the graphics card to one like this http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...sPageName=WDVW would that work? beacuse the 512mb cards are really expensive