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Card advice please

mitch212k

mitch212k

mitch212k

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Hey

Fairly sure my faithful 88'GTS died yesterday. Monitor displays no signal but everything else appears to be working.
I need a new card obviously and I like to play BC2, currently at 1440x900 but with a view to getting a 24" monitor at 1080p or similar soon.
Don't really want to spend any more than £200, preferably less.
I've seen stuff about fermi, should I wait and get a used 5850 or similar, or get a fermi card? Though presumably they won't be cheap at release ...

cheers
 
For your current res and budget, the ATI 5770 is best value, however, If you are going to change monitor soon for a higher res model, then save a little extra for the 5850 :)
Your Not going to get a Fermi card for £200 or less LOL
 
Exact same situation here, my 8800GTS 640 died a couple of days ago (no output and for a day or so before it died it had some real pretty colours on the screen!). I've put an order on the Asus ATI Radeon HD 5850 although it isn't currently in stock I don't mind waiting since the price is pretty good (£224.99) and has a 3 year warranty
 
I wouldn't expect many judging by the tone of many posts since Fermi was released to public judgement (and in many cases summary execution).
 
mitch212k said:
Thought as much ^^.

Cheers for the advice guys .. are there likely to be a few 5850's on the mm when fermi is released? If so I don't mind buying used for a bit less.
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Nope, theres going to be far fewer available. People who were waiting for Fermi are now buying 5850 or 5870 instead.
 
mitch212k said:
And 5870's are not really worth the extra cash from what i gather? I'd be better off ocing (if necessary) a 5850?
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That would be correct.

All 5850s overclock very nicely anyway, generally they overclock to the same speeds as 5870s.
 
Ben-Irvine93 said:
Yep, he speaks the truth. Got my XFX 5850 running at the same clocks as 5870's with stock volts.
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I didn't phrase it very well, what I meant was that they have the potential to overclock just as well as the 5870s, but you'd obviously have to up the volts.
 
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