Good evening all,
I just need a quick spot of advice. A couple of months ago my HD 4850 1gb card died on me, so I had to slap my old X1950 back in the system. Unfortunately it doesn't let me do the things I bought the 4850 for (mainly games of the GTAIV requirements).
My system is ageing now and does need replacing, but money being tight I can't really stretch to that. So I'm hoping to get a cheap second hand card to get me back to "good enough" for a few months. Obviously I could just go get another 4850, they're selling for about 30quid on ebay uk. But thought I'd ask what people suggest.
The rest of my system is no doubt going to be the limiting factor (no point buying a card that outstrips the cpu by too much), it is:
Core 2 Duo e6750 @ 2.66ghz
2 gb ddr2 ram
abit ip35 mobo
485w psu
Since I'm only keeping it going for a while I don't want to spend a huge amount, no more than £40 or so. Which rules out brand new cards that are comparable even to my five year old x1950.
For gaming, is the gfx ram more important than the speed. So for the same price as a 1gb 4850 I could get a 512mb 4870. It's so long since I did the research for buying that card (christmas 2008!) I can't remember the differences.
The tricky addendum, I'd also love to run Skyrim, even on pretty basic settings (@1680x1050). I know it needs 3gb of ram so I could up that, and the graphics card I had is above min spec. I'm sure the cpu will be the main hole in the premise, but I'd appreciate thoughts on whether you think it'd be doable.
Thanks for any suggestions people can give,
Cheers,
Si
I just need a quick spot of advice. A couple of months ago my HD 4850 1gb card died on me, so I had to slap my old X1950 back in the system. Unfortunately it doesn't let me do the things I bought the 4850 for (mainly games of the GTAIV requirements).
My system is ageing now and does need replacing, but money being tight I can't really stretch to that. So I'm hoping to get a cheap second hand card to get me back to "good enough" for a few months. Obviously I could just go get another 4850, they're selling for about 30quid on ebay uk. But thought I'd ask what people suggest.
The rest of my system is no doubt going to be the limiting factor (no point buying a card that outstrips the cpu by too much), it is:
Core 2 Duo e6750 @ 2.66ghz
2 gb ddr2 ram
abit ip35 mobo
485w psu
Since I'm only keeping it going for a while I don't want to spend a huge amount, no more than £40 or so. Which rules out brand new cards that are comparable even to my five year old x1950.
For gaming, is the gfx ram more important than the speed. So for the same price as a 1gb 4850 I could get a 512mb 4870. It's so long since I did the research for buying that card (christmas 2008!) I can't remember the differences.
The tricky addendum, I'd also love to run Skyrim, even on pretty basic settings (@1680x1050). I know it needs 3gb of ram so I could up that, and the graphics card I had is above min spec. I'm sure the cpu will be the main hole in the premise, but I'd appreciate thoughts on whether you think it'd be doable.
Thanks for any suggestions people can give,
Cheers,
Si