Sub-$250 graphics cards

By Justin Robinson
17:07 Feb 18, 2009 | 5 Comments
Tags: video | cards | budget | gaming

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Products Tested

GIGABYTE HD4650 1GB
55%

Sapphire HD4650
80%

HIS 4670 IceQ
85%

Sapphire 4830
89%

Sapphire 4550
65%

Zotac 9400GT ZONE Edition
72%

Zotac 9500GT Zone Edition
83%

EVGA 9500GT
55%

Elitegroup 8800GT
94%

Foxconn 9600GT
92%

Gigabyte 9800GT
91%

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5 Comments

cleadge Feb 18, 2009 6:31 PM	i think thar is a typo in the first chart "3dMark06 points per dollar - [b]lower[/b] is better."
azn_warez Feb 18, 2009 9:05 PM	I thought the HD4850 can be had for $240 right?
heydude Feb 19, 2009 11:36 AM	No mention of power requirements??? The ati 4670 does not even need any external power connector and pulls those frame rates, pretty impressive. And the card can run on a crappy psu. Not to mention its stellar power reduction in windows, it drops to 165mhz gpu clock and 250mhz mem clock in windows dropping power requirements for a trully green card that can game as well. Well if I spent that much time on reviewing these cards I think I would have mentioned that. Not to mention that the his version comes with a brilliant cooler that exhuasts the heat out the back of the case.
TheFrunj Feb 20, 2009 11:06 AM	Hi heydude, While we'd have certainly liked to have included power measurements for the budget-skewed angle, we actually didn't think of it at the time. However there is a handy thread on the forums that does list the power draw of those cards: http://forums.atomicmpc.com.au/index.php?showtopic=264 makes mental note to get power meter for next budget roundup -JR
heydude Feb 20, 2009 12:57 PM	Thanks TheFrunj, I mentioned it because we always hear of how power efficient cpu's are, but in something like graphics that reasoning generally goes out the window for some strange reason. Must be frame rates, lol. Cheers.

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