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Best card for £300
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ok thanks a lot for your help i know people can be a pain asking what to get. so will go with the x2 then and place my order soon unless any one screams noooo and finds a better card for the money
any way thanks to every one that helped
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the 2600 was better than the 8600gt, and they were jsut cut down versions of thier older bros.....also have you seen the crysis comparisons
ok i foudn them before, can rememeber what i searched, but i cant find again. ill put them up later when i find them
no need to go anal on the while subject
i bought the 8800gt i beleive its £165 now and works perfect on my monitor at 1680x1050, Crysis plays perfectly on High and some settings with optimized very highs.
if you want a bit more horsepower, then the GTS is the better buy.
I would say ditch 4gb of your ram and buy a 512mb gts card or X2 and upgrade your monitor to a 24".
With more and more HD content about it makes more sense to be able to watch it in its proper resolution. Good choice on mobo. I thought my old p5h-deluxe was good. This is not only cheaper but overclocks much more.
With more and more HD content about it makes more sense to be able to watch it in its proper resolution. Good choice on mobo. I thought my old p5h-deluxe was good. This is not only cheaper but overclocks much more.
I certainly would not be buying a Q6600 now with Yorkfield so close.
8 GIG of Ram is not needed.
As for the GFX a X2 although nice will be beaten in a matter of weeks ny NV so I would
hang on for just another few weeks before spending all that money and having and out
of date system within weeks.
8 GIG of Ram is not needed.
As for the GFX a X2 although nice will be beaten in a matter of weeks ny NV so I would
hang on for just another few weeks before spending all that money and having and out
of date system within weeks.
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The Q6600 will still be quite good, the lower end Yorkfields wont overclock that much due to low multipliers anyway and they will probably cost fairly more than that. He said that he needs the RAM for video editing as well.
And the GX2 by nVIDIA is not quaranteed to beat the X2, Crossfire scaling is better than SLi.
And the GX2 by nVIDIA is not quaranteed to beat the X2, Crossfire scaling is better than SLi.
I know users who have the 8800s and the ati - both cards at the same time and have personally testified the ati has better image quality- 8800s still have nice image quality.
Both good cards though but no way was he talking out of his ass.
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Seriously what is it with nvidia fans and this "omg the heat" rhetoric?? Last i checked the fans dump the heat outside the case, secondly the most heat ive seen my x2 produce is 86c. Hardly a call to man the fire extinguishers..and do remember we're talking TWO gpu's outputing barely anymore heat than the g92.
I find ati's colours to be more vibrant, when i went from my ultra to the 2900 for a week or so in team fortress 2 i found it very bright for a while compared to the ultras colour settings.
Yeah, he is " talking out of his ass " image quality is the same now, there is nothing in it, prove otherwise, its the same old story, ATI games performance sucks so they claim better IQ, guess what, it ain't true now, you know users, ye big deal.
Yeah, there is a thing called the control panel where you can adjust color settings among other things.
@ Gerard
No need to go on the defensive, we all make mistakes when purchasing hardware from time to time.
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Yeah, he is " talking out of his ass " image quality is the same now, there is nothing in it, prove otherwise, its the same old story, ATI games performance sucks so they claim better IQ, guess what, it ain't true now, you know users, ye big deal.
@ Gerard
No need to go on the defensive, we all make mistakes when purchasing hardware from time to time.
God you're an amazing bore. Should just have "nvdia pr\spin dept" stamped on your forehead.
TBH I'm getting tried of this low multi stuff with yorkfield.
Q9450 just £215 @ 3.6ghz will beat a Q6600 @ 4ghz and as you state video
editing the new SS4 instructions set with yorkfield will see
huge gains in multimedia apps.
This has been proven and there is more than enough info on the net.
Not mentioning more cache etc...
I didn't ditch my 3.8ghz Q6600 for fun.I want a faster chip with the Q9450 especially when rendering video.
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they are 45nm process with a 6 or 12mb cashe. they will whoop the kentsfields even with lower clocks. also, they will have a smaller TDP, and therefore create less heat, and theoretically clock further.
Oh and to the nvidia PR fanboy.........
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if you just want to run crysis all pretty then the 3870xt runs it better than an 8800gts
3870x2 is your only option for under £300.
You won't get good performance, but it will run (walk) faster than everything except 2* 8800GT or better in SLI, which costs over your budget.
Wouldn't it make sense to invest in a graphics card that can accelerate HD video rather than plunging loads of cash into a new CPU? Seems you can get CPU usage into almost single digits like that.
Oh, yeah... Raven, did you buy some nVidia shares or something? I swear every graphics card thread I see, you verbally pleasure the green side. What gives?
Oh, yeah... Raven, did you buy some nVidia shares or something? I swear every graphics card thread I see, you verbally pleasure the green side. What gives?