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GTX 280 first impressions

:) I found it for £399.99 inc shipping from another well known etailer as you mentioned in another thread, it's pretty shocking how OcUK are so over-priced.

So tempted.. Could prob get 200-250 for my ultra on "well known auction site" I reckon...

Hmmm... :P
 
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Very nice :-) any chance you could try crysis at 1440 / 900 resolution..details on hi?, interested how playable it will be, in your own time of course *lol*
Thanks.
 
Round dodger, unless you looking to make a rapid exit i'd quickly remove your references to other UK retailers and any prices (except OCUK's) :) Mods are swift on here!

Matthew
 
according the benchies ive seen crysis should be running on very high, with about 40fps or something (correct me, ive seen it somewhere) quite possibly higher. thoughs its hard to judge. OP has got a fairly common pc (now) rather than some quad core extreme that costs £1000 or some such.

@Strife, im guessing you win a cookie for being the first one to get one on the ocuk forum :)
 
OK I'm back!

It's in and working! No DOA thank god :D

Comparision between GTX 280 and my old 8800GTX:

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Rebooting to install drivers then bench time
 
Yeah sometimes they are scougar but there has been a lot of price dropping on several threads so far lol!

Same length for the cards awesome :) I quite like the new style NVidia coolers that incase the cards, dont know why I just do
 
Strife212 said:
Sure that was first thing on the list ^^

Remember I am on Core 2 Duo at 3.2 so it wont be amazing. My current 8800GTX score is 10756 (stock GTX)
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Cool Ill be comparing like for like CPU's anyway mate.


Get to it!:D;)


P.S will be nice also to compare your new card directly with your old 8800 GTX
 
Strife212 said:
Sure that was first thing on the list ^^

Remember I am on Core 2 Duo at 3.2 so it wont be amazing. My current 8800GTX score is 10756 (stock GTX)
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Well, that's good, at least we've got a point of reference for YOUR setup old vs new. :)
 
rounddodger said:
:) I found it for £399.99 inc shipping from another well known etailer as you mentioned in another thread, it's pretty shocking how OcUK are so over-priced.

So tempted.. Could prob get 200-250 for my ultra on the bay I reckon...

Hmmm... :P
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I'm sorry but this has annoyed me a little, it's not that OcUK is over priced, it's just they don't have the budget cards for sale, i.e POV, Inno3D, Zotac etc, you can't compare the price of a POV card against the price of a BFG/EVGA card for example, not only are they different company's but BFG/EVGA offer you 10 years warranty and a better RMA process, try and buy a BFG, EVGA, ASUS card for £399.99 from another retailer, you cant do it, OcUK have just decided to stock the premium GTX 280's that's all, your not forced into buying them.
 
easyrider said:
Cool Ill be comparing like for like CPU's anyway mate.


Get to it!:D;)


P.S will be nice also to compare your new card directly with your old 8800 GTX
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Havent posted the link but my 9800GTX @ Stock coupled with my e6300 @ 3.2Ghz was around 12700 in 3D Mark 06 :) So will be nice to compare that also!
 
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