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Pigeon_Killer

Pigeon_Killer

Pigeon_Killer

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My 8800GTX, which I've had since just after launch, decided to give up the ghost this morning so I'm in the market for a new card.

I don't really take any interest in PC technology until I need to upgrade or am forced in to it so my knowledge of graphics cards is about 3/4 years out of date.

Current spec:
Q6600 @ 3.2GHz
4GB RAM
Corsair HX520

I know my CPU will probably bottleneck anything half decent but I'm looking to spend around £100-150. Thanks :)
 
It's a really quiet card compared to the other Fermi ones out there due to it's improved design, and Gigabyte's custom cooling will allow it to stay quieter.
 
Thanks Orcvader :)

Given my current spec and the fact I game at 1680x1050 can I expect to get a good few years out of the card? Never had a problem lowering graphics settings to get by but I'd like to think it wouldn't be a purchase that would need replacing in the next year.
 
Yeah very hard to beat that card for price and value/performance for money. With a bit of an OC it will just about bump heads with the 6870.
 
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Will have a play around with it once I've got it but my luck with graphics cards in the last few years isn't great so I probably won't OC it by much.

OCUK 8800GTX - Died of natural causes
OCUK 7800GTX - KIA
HIS ATI 9800 - Died of natural causes
HIS ATI 9800 - Died of natural causes
HIS ATI 9800 - KIA

:o
 
I haven't but I think I'm just unlucky tbh. The 8800 has lasted nearly 4 years, the 7800 was killed testing my dad's new Corsair PSU which turned out to be faulty and the HIS cards, two of which died while at Uni, just seemed to be poor although the first one died after the temperature shot up and I reseated the heatsink :o
 
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Apart from multiple dead graphics cards I've only had one stick of memory go bad in 18 years so I'm not too unlucky :o

My dad in less time has had two dead motherboards, 2 dead CPUs, one dead graphics card, one dead DVD drive and one dead hard drive although the Corsair PSU was at fault for all but one motherboard and CPU.
 
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when you say your Q6600 will bottleneck a new graphics card, how will that happen?

i have a Q6600 clocked at 3.0 and will be looking for a new graphics card soon....
 
I have 2 8800 gtx's in sli one died last week so stripped off cooler and baked in oven at 190 for ten minutes rebuilt and working again, give it a go !
 
there is no way a q6600 will bottleneck modern cards at high resolutions. the bottlenecks are always the cards in modern games and if you like to play your games at high resolution with high quality settings.
i have a q6600 and an i7 and they both perform identically with a pair of 6870 on metro 2033.
 
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