Just want to no from you computor buffs i have a compaq presario pc 3gh processor 1gb ram and a Ati Radeon 9200 graphics card now i play quite a lot of games on my pc so i want to upgrade cos the game i just broght won't run on the old card.Willing to spend upto

I'd spend abit more and go for something like this...

Lots faster than the radeon 9550, only £30 more as well and from my experience better with games...

I usually buy MSI graphics cards but this time last year I bought one of these Inno3d cards.. other than having to hoover it out I've had no bother with it at all

I don't want to start a flame war over nvidia vs ati... just going on my past experience with ati cards, drivers and games, i'm sure someone will be along and claim the exact same thing for nvidia cards...

7600 is a lot lot faster than a 9800 so i'd say good buy

Chris, also make sure you're getting the right type of interface for the card. From your PC specs, it could be either AGP or PCI-e and they're not compatible

I'd also go for an nvidia 7600 as others have said. a decent but still cheap card

If you are on AGP you choices are much more limited, but something like an NVidia 6800 would be pretty cheap these days and still much much faster than a 9200.

I think ATI did a pretty powerful AGP card too , but i can't for the life of me rember what it was. The 9800 AGP isn't worth paying any serious money for due to the lack of DX9 support.

Well with Chris saying he's got a radeon 9200 I've assumed he's got an AGP slot... what with the 9200 being a fairly old card.. Still worth checking inside your machine first..

The url I posted for the 7600GS is an AGP card btw

I got a Geforce 7600GS AGP card the other week for my Home Theatre PC, very good performance and based on a very recent chipset.

So can you tell me is this a AGP card that i have removed from the brown slot in the pc:confused: .And i write to believe the 7600 is a lot bigger than the 9200 i am using at the moment .

Looks like agp to me...

Looks like agp to me...

I agree.

I agree.

Wow I got it right... i was pretty wasted when I posted that

I only knew as it looks the same as my motherboard which is AGP.

Nvidia will probably give you more bangs for bucks on the Budget you have Chris.

ATi's are great cards, fantastic image quality but you need to be at the higher end of the range to enjoy it all. A GeForce 7600 will take most things you throw at it and will be more capable with games running with openGL (anything based around the quake engine's - COD, MOH, Q1/2/3/4, Brothers in Arms) Battlefield2 is tweaked for Nvidia's as well. If you play a lot of games based around Valve's half life engine then the ATi cards tend to be nosing ahead as they always seem to perform better on pure directX based games.

Currently got 2 x 7950's with 1GB Ram each is niiiice .... I liiike!!!