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8800GTX is dead - looking replacement advice

DaveC118

DaveC118

DaveC118

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My 8800GTX graphics card gave up on me last night exactly on its 3 year warranty, i am looking for recommendations for a replacement for about £200 (may go higher). I have always had nVidia cards, but open to others as long as they are not a pain in the ass to get working read a few horror stories on the Radion cards but i am sure nVidi have there issues too.

Need to get this ordered today so i can get it tomorrow and get my pc back up and working.


Basic details
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Intel CoreT 2 Quad Q6600 Quad Core Processor (2.4GHz)
ASUS P5N32-E SLI nForce 680i (C55XE) Motherboard
GeForce 8800GTX 768MB
550W Power Supply
Windows 7 32bit
 
Radeon 5850 is a great single card solution, and a sweet upgrade from an 8800GTX. Thats what I did when my 8800GTX fried, and its faster, cooler, and even uses less power than the 8800GTX. Your CPU may limit you a little in some games, but with the eye candy dialed up and a sensible high resolution (1920x1200) the majority of games will be bordering on both cpu and gpu limitations.

Its the best solution thats close to your target budget in my opinion.
 
Trunks9486 said:
Radeon 5850, but overclock your CPU. At stock it might be limiting you a bit.
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He doesn't need to, a single GPU isn't enough to make CPU matter. As long as you have a Core2Quad or higher (which he has), you'll see next to no performance gains all the way up to i7.

To the OP, keep your CPU at stock...it'll last longer too!
 
Shagger said:
He doesn't need to, a single GPU isn't enough to make CPU matter. As long as you have a Core2Quad or higher (which he has), you'll see next to no performance gains all the way up to i7.

To the OP, keep your CPU at stock...it'll last longer too!
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Don't listen to this, the q6600 is a stellar little cpu made specially so that the likes of you and me can clock the nuts off of them.

Anybody that leaves the Q66 at stock by choice is a fool of epic proportions. As for no gains from clocking, well… that’s also rubbish and if it were true every Q66 owner would have them at stock.
 
Just been looking at the 5770 it gets great reviews and its £100 cheaper than the 5850. Is the gain the 5850 gives significantly noticeable for the extra £100?
 
VinceB1 said:
Don't listen to this, the q6600 is a stellar little cpu made specially so that the likes of you and me can clock the nuts off of them.

Anybody that leaves the Q66 at stock by choice is a fool of epic proportions. As for no gains from clocking, well… that’s also rubbish and if it were true every Q66 owner would have them at stock.
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********, you'll see next to no performance gains at all just using a single GPU with such a CPU.

Some fools blow the whole "you need to overclock your CPU" out of proportion.
 
The 5770 is a good card but the 5850 is better by a fair margin, it's down to you as to what value you'd put on the gains. At the moment they are a little costly (exchange rate and all that). Shop around you may find some cheaper but it is probably the card to go for seeing as you don't have the crossfire option.

Personally i'd overclock your cpu, you don't need to go crazy, 3.0ghz will see good improvements anything up above that i doubt you'd notice with the single card or unless you're doing something else other than gaming.
 
Call me crazy but I agree with Shagger 'to a point' the op poster is certainly not going to be limited that much just because he's running @ 2.4ghz, across the board say if he manages to over-clock the CPU to 3.4ghz unless he is playing a game that that is heavily cpu limited which there aren't many of your hardly going to notice a difference unless you have fraps running.

I'm not saying that he shouldn't over-clock the chip though, he definitely should, it's a free performance boost however little or big it is, but the jump in performance isn't going to be as amazing as people make out, the only game I've played where it makes a noticeable difference so far is GTXIV (I have a Q9550, need to update my sig).
 
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