£300ish card?

[godinman]

Okay so i'm currently running a 256mb 5550 nvidia card ( or something like that) as this is what i had lying around. Im looking for an upgrade, my motherboard had pci 16x or whatever its called.

What would you guys recommend? I dont mind raising the price a bit if it'd make a big difference.

Cheers

 

[Princey]

OcUK Geforce 8800GTX

 

[Teaf]

Guess it depends on the rest of your system, I'd probably say you're close to 8800 GTX ranges. What's the rest of the system like? In particular the CPU, and PSU.

 

[godinman]

Thanks Princey, shall take a look. I've got a 700watt psu and a e660 2.4 dual core processor. (Should've waited a couple of weeks and got a faster one cheaper). What ya think?

 

[Teaf]

Definetly the 8800 GTX if you can squeeze out the extra £30. Otherwise a 640M 8800 GTS if you can't.

 

[godinman]

That i can do, thanks a lot guys

 

[Princey]

Your systems fine for a 8800GTX, the step up from a Geforce FX 5500 will be stupidly large! Enjoy it mate.

 

[godinman]

Excellent Will do. Thanks!

 

[CmdNeo]

Okay so i'm currently running a 256mb 5550 nvidia card ( or something like that) as this is what i had lying around. Im looking for an upgrade, my motherboard had pci 16x or whatever its called.

What would you guys recommend? I dont mind raising the price a bit if it'd make a big difference.

Cheers

Hi there, i saw an 8800 GTX on the members market going for £300inc, he only used the graphics card for ~5 mins give or take, although the purchase was not made from OCUK it is an awesome deal.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17742820

 

[psychas]

pffff 2900xt 1 gig gddr4 better for future + cheaper

 

[Princey]

We'll see

 

[SS-89]

pffff 2900xt 1 gig gddr4 better for future + cheaper

Nope its the same price and albeit it can reach ultra performance but thats only when heavily overclocked...same applies to gtx though.