Onboard Graphics

Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 5:13 am

I've been looking to buy a Ready Built System to save some hassle and I've found this:

http://www.pcworld.co.uk:80/martprd/store/pcw_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0325643736.1125316176@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccjaddfiffddfkcflgceggdhhmdgml.0&page=Product&sku=423701&category_oid=-15245&fm=0&sm=0&tm=undefined

on PC world, it features onboard ATI Radeon Xpress 200 IGP Graphics and was wondering if this would be good enough for any games I've never bought a mothherboard with onboard graphics.

Thanks

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 4:49 pm

from what i know a x200 is a rather low in the scale card, a x600 or x700 would be ok for newish games, fine for older games but you need a x800 or higher for the games that are considered top of the range, you should consider building your own systtem or getting sum 1 to build for you, it works out a hell of a lot cheaper, if you keep things simple, and opt to pay poor money for your system and quality money for ram and graphics, then you should be fine. from the spec you are thinking of buying only the graphics would let you down............
pc world are a little on the high side.........look into an own spec custom build of a similar spec but up the graphics spec a bit and see how prices compare.........., if you got most o the stuff, like hard disks, cd rom, dvd writer etc, better to just upgrade than shell out that kinda dosh, research a while before comitting to a ready built system, you can get more for ur cash if you shop around.......
good luck......
ds

Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 11:02 pm

Gotta agree with dav, If after all said you do decide to go for this "rig" with, any luck there will be an agp slot, so as when time and money permit, you can add an "external" gfx card. The said company don't give a lot away with there ads, do they. I think they tend to play on people's nievety. Sad

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 10:08 am

harvey_mistry wrote:

I've been looking to buy a Ready Built System to save some hassle and I've found this:

http://www.pcworld.co.uk:80/martprd/store/pcw_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0325643736.1125316176@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccjaddfiffddfkcflgceggdhhmdgml.0&page=Product&sku=423701&category_oid=-15245&fm=0&sm=0&tm=undefined

on PC world, it features onboard ATI Radeon Xpress 200 IGP Graphics and was wondering if this would be good enough for any games I've never bought a mothherboard with onboard graphics.

Thanks

If you want to play games steer clear of onboard graphics full stop.

Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 9:54 am

onboard-graphics sucks...go buy a secondhand graphic on ebay or so. still better than onboard

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Free IPOD?

Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 9:21 pm

x800xl or 6800 for agp graphics. 7800gt for pci-e graphics