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Plastic melted, whats a comparable card?

chipperhead

chipperhead

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A friends computer stopped working, I opened it up and was greeted with the fan hanging out of the gfx card after it seems the plastic holding it in has melted, picture below.

It's a 3 year old pc and has X700se, I've been looking around to see what a comparable card to it would be but am struggling, I realise it is a shockingly poor card, do you think around a £35 card would be equal to this or even an upgrade?

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... ROFL.

Ideally I would be looking for a second hand 7800/7900 or X1800/1900/1950 series card for that price, as new cards in that price bracket are cack (8500 GT, 3470, etc).
 
LoadsaMoney said:
Wouldn't the 3450 be a massive upgrade though from the old x700se.
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Maybe a bit, I wouldn't say 'massive' though.

2400 XT, 2400 Pro and 6600 GT, in which the 6600 GT beats both of them in overall FPS.

The 6600 GT seems to beat the X700LE by a sizeable margin to a relatively small margin in the benchmarks in this article:

http://www.legionhardware.com/document.php?id=483&p=7

So the 3450 should perform inbetween the 2400 Pro and XT cards, which in turn performs worse than the 6600 GT, which beats the 700LE. This means that while the potential for a speed boost is certainly there, it's never going to be a massive difference.

I say, since you have the money, you might as well go for an older, faster product than a newer, much slower product.

Edit: Oh right, the se. Hmm, not sure how that affects this post...

I stand by getting a second hand 7800/7900 or X1800/X1900, etc. though as they will be much faster than any of those other cards.
 
How about a OcUK GeForce 8500 GT 512MB DDR2 £31.99 (£37.59 inc VAT)

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...GT 512MB DDR2 HDTV/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail

The OcUK NVIDIA® GeForce® 8500 GT graphics card offers the features of the GeForce 8 Series architecture for an incredible value. Essential for accelerating the Microsoft® Windows Vista™ experience, the OcUK NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT is designed to enhance the Windows Vista Aero™ graphical 3D interface, allow you to play the latest Microsoft DirectX® 9 and DirectX 10 games, and enjoy the ultimate HD movie experience with PureVideo™ HD technology.

- GeForce 8500 GT core running at 450MHz
- 512MB DDR2 Memory running at 800MHz
- 128-Bit Memory interface
- Shader Model 4.0
- Memory Bandwidth: 12.8GB/s
- Designed For Extreme HD Gaming
- Nvidia Pure Video Technology
- Dedicated Video processors free the GPU Shaders to run 3D applications
- Dual dual-link DVI supports two 2560 x 1600 resolution displays
- HDCP Enabled!!
- SLI ready – Upto 2x the performance of a single GPU
- True High Dynamic Range Rendering Support – Based on Open EXR technology
- World's first unified architecture supporting Microsoft® DirectX® 10
- Built for Microsoft® Windows® Vista™
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X800XT's go around that price and are the most powerfull out of 6600GT/7600GT etc.. but dont support SM3.0 so best bet is look around for something like a 7600GT or X1950Pro.
 
Mr Footlong said:
Lol it does make you wonder how long it took between the fan seizing up/dieing and the card actually packing in!
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He said he heard some funny noise around 3-4 months ago so probably then, it does beg the question though why did it happen? I've vacced the case and components and there was some major dust in there so maybe just that which caused it to overheat.
 
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