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Hi I don't play games so much. However, GTA4 is coming out on PC this year and I would like to play it with good visuals. I think my current gfx card is the bottle neck rather than my CPU? Or do you think my system is just too slow overall.. lol
I will also get into other games after I buy this next card...

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I would like to spend equal or less than £100

I don't mind nvidia or ati, I just want to pay the smallest amount for the best performer for my needs. Thanks!
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You can't get better performance for the money. You don't have a slow system at all, You just need to overclock your E6400 to 3Ghz (can be done quite easily)

Gainward ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB GDDR3
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...odid=GX-070-GW
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You can't get better performance for the money.

Gainward ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB GDDR3
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...odid=GX-070-GW
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assuming you're in the uk

http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/...224&CatId=2910

Bam. 10 more pounds and you're golden for a game like GTA4
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assuming you're in the uk

http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/...224&CatId=2910

Bam. 10 more pounds and you're golden for a game like GTA4
You know the 8800GT is alot slower then the Radeon 4850 right?
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If you want to use another NVIDIA card, a 8800gt or a 9600gt will do you fine aswell. Both coming in at about £100.

But otherwise i would grab the 4850.
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How about the 9800GT, there's £100 version of it
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...)%20-%20Retail

do you think this is better than the 4850?

thanks for posts^^ btw, I am from UK.
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8800gt is WAY slower than the 4850.

4850 will run any game maxed out 1680x1050 (excluding crysis)
but your cpu at stock clocks will bottleneck the card a alittle bit, you shoudl look into overclocking it a little
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Definately the 4850.
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