What would be the best budget card for CoD

[wannabetheace]

I'm looking for a good budget card to play CoD.
I have a Core 2 quad 3Ghz cpu and 4G ram. But no graph onboard 1G shared and when I start CoD it just force shut down almost crashing my machine.

what if I say GeForce GTS 450 D5 1G?

any other smart recommendation within price range?


Thanks

[Thee_oddball]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-447-_-Product

on sale for $104

[Heliocon]

Originally Posted by wannabetheace

I'm looking for a good budget card to play CoD.
I have a Core 2 quad 3Ghz cpu and 4G ram. But no graph onboard 1G shared and when I start CoD it just force shut down almost crashing my machine.

what if I say GeForce GTS 450 D5 1G?

any other smart recommendation within price range?


Thanks

460 I think is better choice.

Well for $300 (AUD ) you can get a 2GB 560ti , this is 1/4 of the price you would have paid for an 8800GTX back in the day. And it is 2x faster.

[danjama]

While we're on the subject of GPU's (hope you don't mind wannabe), what sort of card would trump my 8800GTS for under £80gbp? I'm beginning a build now, will be using 8800 temporarily.

Pref ATi.

[jimbop]

I'd try to find a used 470/480 from someone upgrading to 5xx.

[Troll2k]

Spec comparison.

Ati: http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/131

Nvidia: http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/132

[Oldschool61]

Originally Posted by machoo

Well for $300 (AUD ) you can get a 2GB 560ti , this is 1/4 of the price you would have paid for an 8800GTX back in the day. And it is 2x faster.

Uh he said budget card. Likely a gts 450 will be decent but I would wait till all patching and optimization is finished. What is your budget for the card?

[Ze-Jamz]

5770 is a good card though go for the Sapphire range as it has better cooling and fan..very very clockable and can handle increased volts easily..in fact it comes in the top 3 of cards available to best handle those 2 things

it is however £120ish so if your willing to put another £70 your get a card thats twice as powerful and beats the HD6950 hands down GTX 560TI twin FrozR..forget about the whole 2gig/1gig thing..its doesnt always matter..

ive recently read a magazine that benchmarked 20 GFX cards on 3 different resolutions on 3 diff games..

ARMA2
Call Of Duty
Battlefield2

GTX560Ti came in top 3 of all cards listed and had 20% increase over the 6950 and its only £190

that would be my card if i was to upgrade now

Product Specification

Memory: 1024 MB GDDR5
Core Clock: 880 MHz
Shader Clock: 1760 MHz
Memory Clock: 4200 MHz
Memory Interface: 256 bit
Processor Streams: 384
DirectX 11 Support
NVIDIA SLI Support
NVIDIA CUDA Technology
NVIDIA PhysX Ready
NVIDIA PureVideo HD
NVIDIA 3D Vision
Overclocked Performance
MSI Twin Frozr II Thermal Design
MSI Afterburner Overclocking Utility
Military Class II Components
MSI Solid Capacitor Graphics Card

[wannabetheace]

Originally Posted by Oldschool61

Uh he said budget card. Likely a gts 450 will be decent but I would wait till all patching and optimization is finished. What is your budget for the card?

It would be around 100$ or slightly above. I'll upgrade it when I have enough money maybe 1 year later.