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£150 upgrade - 6850 or 260 1gb

Kazz said:
Also bought one of them earlier today and spookily enough I have a 520w Corsair as well. Yeah it has 2x leads supplied with the PSU. Now to actually find it...
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oh god im pretty sure i dont have the old psu box around here, doesnt the card come with the extra connectors?

cheers

edit: just opened up case and its fine i do have 2 connectors lol, i had an image in my head of my 9800gtx only requiring one when i installed it but it didnt :p.

Will i need to uninstall any drivers or does it use the same ones?
 
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The MSI 460 HAWK is a nice card, I've had one since launch day. Like most 460's they clock pretty well. At the current price, they are an insane steal! Just wish I had the patience to wait before buying mine.

If it was me. I would uninstall current drivers, shut machine down, remove old card, install new card, power up PC and indtall latest drivers (assuming W7 doesn't do that for you).
 
mikeo said:
The MSI 460 HAWK is a nice card, I've had one since launch day. Like most 460's they clock pretty well. At the current price, they are an insane steal! Just wish I had the patience to wait before buying mine.

If it was me. I would uninstall current drivers, shut machine down, remove old card, install new card, power up PC and indtall latest drivers (assuming W7 doesn't do that for you).
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I've ordered an MSI 460 Hawk - looks good and people say it runs nice and quiet too which is important for me.

Probably not much of an upgrade compared to my 4870x2 but I wanted something that ran a bit quieter and didn't chew so much power.

I was going to wait for the new Ati cards to come out but I don't think they'll be all that quiet myself, and I figure I can upgrade again in a year or two if the need presents itself :)
 
scorpion100 said:
hey guys sorry not trying to hijack the post but are the 460 good with AMd x6 ..I heared it is better to get an ATI to work well with AMD rather than nvidia?
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No, it doesn't matter. I have wondered if AMD decided to ditch ATI branding and call it AMD as well so that people with AMD system would be misled into thinking AMD/ATI card would work better than Nvidia's card. Things to consider is whether the motherboard support Crossfire or SLI, if it does neither, then it's all down to personal preference...and AMD or Intel system don't matter at all.

Check if your motherboard support Crossfire, and if it does, it might be worth getting a 6850 instead of GTX460 1GB.
 
How much is that hawk gtx460? 155? Should have stretched that 10 quid for a gtx470 tbh if you don't mind the noise. It overclocks well even on stock cooler and once oced the performance is close to a gtx480. Still, nice purchase. Enjoy :)
 
thing is this was 165 with postage and everything and i just couldnt go any higher (the 270 would have been 175 with postage, im poor! :p)

Coming today, Whats the programme called that uninstalls drivers?

thanks
 
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