Bargain GTX 580 Direct CU II,should I get it?

[starmanwarz]

I have been offered an ASUS GTX 580 Direct CU II for £300,the card is sealed and unused,should I get it?

I was after a card for BF3,but I was going to spend £240 probably for a 6950 Toxic but this offer came up and I don't know what to do.

The rest of my system is old and I don't plan on upgrading anything else atm,got money only for gfx card.

Do you think the card will be bottlenecked by my cpu?Is this a good deal?And something last,I have an Enermax Infinity 650w,is this going to be enough and does it have 6+8 pin connectors?

 

[Apem]

Thing to remember on that asus card is takes up 3 slots

 

[fowler002]

the q6600 will bottle neck the 580 but you'll still see quite a bit of an improvement over the 8800gtx, if you can try pushing the oc on the q6600 to 3.6ghz(have a loock in the overclocking section of the forums for help).

would normally say with 3-6 months till the next gen of cards are releaed to hold off getting a current gen card, but at that price difficult to say no.

650w will be enough, you should know if it has the required connectors or not

 

[mike gunnz]

PSU is more than adequate.

£300 is a lot of cash, but then if its brand new...

How sure are you that the seller will support you with returns in the event of it being faulty?

If I were you I'd err on the side of caution be sensible and get the 6950 from a retailer. That way you've got warranty and as you have limited cash why chance it?

 

[starmanwarz]

The card comes with a receipt and full warranty.I never intended to get such an expensive card and if my GPU handled BF3 well enough I would wait for next gen.However this looks like a good deal.Such a hard choice.

 

[Marine-RX179]

The card comes with a receipt and full warranty.

Are you sure about that? Warranty don't get transferred just by having the receipt of someone else buying the card. If you do RMA the card to the etailer that orignally sold the card, without prove that you purchased directly from them (you wouldn't have any prove, as you didn't buy from them), the chances are the replacement card will be sent to the person that bought the card from them instead of to you...

 

[mikeo]

Decent price. Though as already commented, warranty "could" be an issue.