Help with card choice

[bulric]

Hey guys, I'm sure you get this all the time, but I'd reall appreciate the help.

I'm looking to buy a new graphics card and there's so much choice I don't know which one to buy, I have a budget of around £200, so can you suggest the best card for me.

I have:

A pentium D processor

2 Gigs of ram

400W power supply

Would any of these need upgrading for a new card to play top end games?

Cheers

[realitybytes]

Asus GeForce EN8800 GT TOP 512MB GDDR3 comes in about £200 flat

else

EVGA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB SSC GDDR3 comes in closer to £230

[Luigi]

not sure what brand psu you have, but that might need upgrading also.

[bulric]

Isn't Asus GeForce EN8800 GT TOP 512MB GDDR3 just for vista? I'm running XP.

Cheers for replys by the way.

[realitybytes]

No there are XP drivers available, it is just the 8800 clocked at 700Mhz.

As above though a PSU might be needed.

[Hatman]

Could always go with a 3850 512MB and not need a new PSU. Would still offer top of the line gaming but for like half the price. Id expect a 8800GT to be seriously bottlenecked on your CPU too. A 3850 less so.

Could get a nice custom cooled version too.

[FarFarAway]

*almost* All cards will be bottlenecked but your still going to have a better performance with an 8800 GT

[ali_james]

Is your motherboard is pci-e compatible? If not you'll have to factor that into you budget

[Luigi]

also, whats the screen size/reso?

[SBB]

Judging by you have a Pentium D, i'd say your PSU isnt going to be up to much (even a high quality 400w I wouldn't really recommend to run a HD3850).

However, you can get a decent PSU and an ATI HD3850 and still be in budget