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£200 to upgrade from an 8800 GTS

Klytus

Klytus

Klytus

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Quick question. My GTS has given up the ghost and I am well out of touch with whats happening in the world of graphics cards. Please could you give me a quick pointer towards what is currently the best I could get for £200. I would prefer cooler and less power hungry if possible. I'm hoping to order it today.
Thanks in advance
 
Marine-RX179 said:
What CPU are you using? A dated dual-core system would bottleneck most modern cards at low-mid range or above.
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Yeah it is pretty old - Q6600 @ 3.4 and 4gb ddr2 but as I need a new card now I figure get a decent one then upgrade the rest of the system as and when.
 
delbuenno said:
Yeah it is pretty old - Q6600 @ 3.4 and 4gb ddr2 but as I need a new card now I figure get a decent one then upgrade the rest of the system as and when.
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Shouldn't be too bad unless you were playing games like mmos or Starcraft II or open world games...most FPS/action games on single player are more linear and is more demanding on graphic side than CPU side. I had a Q6600 overclocked to 3.6GHz, and it was only really letting me down on mmos that I played (and even with frame rate dips in source games like Left4Dead2, and Crysis 1 because of the game only using 2 cores).

So whether the CPU would be a little or a lot of bottleneck is depending on the games you play. Most modern FPS would generally use 4 cores or more.
 
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delbuenno said:
Yeah it is pretty old - Q6600 @ 3.4 and 4gb ddr2 but as I need a new card now I figure get a decent one then upgrade the rest of the system as and when.
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That system should be fine, if it does bottleneck it wouldn't be that noticeable in most situations I don't think. Going by other people's setups and experiences that I have encountered on here.
 
8800gt crysis warhead,3 fps:eek::eek:

those figures for the 7950 are probably on old drivers,be sure to install the latest beta drivers to improve things by a huge margin
 
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