Best card for £130+vat ?

[hyper_fusion]

Hi All, I want to up grade my graphics card from an Asus EAH4850 512mb. My budget is £130+vat, what would you guys buy?
My Pc spec is,

Asus M3A32-MVP Deluxe
AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 965 Black Edition "125W Edition" 3.40GHz
Asus EAH4850 512mb
OCZ 500w (OCZ500MXSP)
Kingston HyperX 2GB DDR2 pc2-8500 1066Mhz

Thanks in advance for replies.

 

[RavenXXX2]

Scrounge £15 and get this or this.

 

[hyper_fusion]

Cheers Raven, I did look at the HIS 6850, its rank 7 on the Benchmark website and I thought it seemed to cheep in respect of its rank?
Also I assume that using a NVidia on a ATI board has no implications?

 

[Skyrocket]

^^^ what he said.
130+VAT they are both 120+VAT job done

no implications amd / nvidia boards.

 

[RavenXXX2]

Personally I would go with the 460, more features ect, better cooler. No problems running Nvidia on a AMD mobo.

 

[hyper_fusion]

Thanks for the advice guys

 

[Nitram]

I should wait a few days , the cards are currently falling in price. You should get a much better deal by the end of the month with all the new models hitting the streets

 

[crackerbear]

I should wait a few days , the cards are currently falling in price. You should get a much better deal by the end of the month with all the new models hitting the streets

I can't really see the prices dropping that much from the new cards (presuming you mean the 69xx) coming into the market as they're in a completely different price bracket.

 

[TNA]

Personally I would go with the 460, more features ect, better cooler. No problems running Nvidia on a AMD mobo.

+ 1

Not that any of the features they provide you are likely to used or see the difference. But I believe in terms of performance the 460 1GB is a better buy than the 6850. I think the 460 would be better at folding if you are into that kind of thing

 

[MissChief]

TBH you can't really go wrong with either one. 3 Months ago I got the Giga when it launched and paid £190. it's a fantastic card and overclocks easily and is very quiet to boot.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

The HD6850 1GB does only require one PCI-E power connector unlike the GTX460 which requires two. Even when overclocked massively an HD6850 1GB will consume around the same power at load as a GTX460 running at stock clockspeeds:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4002/amd-radeon-hd-6850-overclocking-roundup-asus-xfx-msi/8