My friend is looking for a new video card to play some of the more modern games but he can only spend around $40. What is the best PCI card that money can buy for 40 bucks?
you need at least 100 i would say, get maybe a 6600GT or something, something mid-tier ya know?
a ATI Radeon 9200 will not do jack ****, i had an ATI Radeon 9800 PRO, 64 mb ram, and i had to run WoW on the LOWEST settings across the board to even be able to play. i upgraded to a 7600GS 512mb ($171 including overnight shipping and rush processing, thank you newegg) and now i can run on all highest, but downgrading would have made it worse
tell your friend to save his **** money and get a card that will actually help instead of wasting his $40
and no you dont need a crossfire board to use one... if a card is crossfire enabled... that just means its able to be hooked up to another card, just like (Nvidia's SLI) except its (ATI crossfire)... to use 2 ATI cards together in crossfire requires a Crossfire compatable motherboard with 2 PCI-E slots. If you dont use 2 of them together, then you dont need a crosffire motherboard.