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Best compatable upgrade card for around £100

edgarina

edgarina

edgarina

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Hi,

I have an OC system with an overclocked Q6600, 650w power, 2X2GB DDR2, Abit IP35 XE Intel P35 (socket 775) Mobo, Antec 900 case.

Current card is a 9800 GT (512MB)

I realsie the MOBO is very old. Whats the best upgrade card for around or under £100 that will work with the system and improve performance.

Will the ancient Mobo be a bottleneck and reduce performance with much of an upgrade?
 
Hi there,

May I ask what make and model number 650W PSU you are using?

As for running a modern graphics card - your IP35 only has a x16 PCI-E v1.1 graphics card slot (modern ones are V2.0 or 2.1 and have double the bandwidth). However, for any graphics card you can get hold of for ~£100 this really won't hold you back much (a few% FPS at the most).

As for which card to go for (assuming your PSU is up to it) - I would go for this one, or this one if you really need it to be under £100 (that said the ASUS card is a better deal since it comes with a nice custom cooler and a 3 year warranty - the OEM card just has the stock cooler and 1 year warranty).
 
Hi,

The PSU is a Corsair TX 650 ATX 2.2 SLi Compliant the cooling is Arctic cooling Freezer pro. The CPU is clocked to 3.2. Having read the similar thread a few below this one, 'looking to replace my 8800gtx' sorry missed that, are the replies differnet for my situation.
 
Ah, nice PSU - you should be able to handle pretty much any single-GPU card currently available.

The other thread does seem to a be pretty similar (Q6600, existing graphics card is basically the same speed) though his budget appears to be a bit higher "in the £100-£200 range, ideally closer to £100" as opposed to "around or under £100" in your case.

For this reason you will see suggestions for £135 cards like the excellent HD 6870 or £150 cards like the OEM GTX 470. These are all great cards and if you can stretch the budget a bit then they are worth going for - however if you want to stick closer to £100 then the two GTX 460 1GB cards I mentioned above are tough to beat. Another card to look out for is a new HD 5850 for £120 or less, these are technically EOL cards but they are often priced very well and pack a mean punch.
 
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smit101 said:
P35 is a decent chipset and you've got a good overclock on the Q6600 so i'd say any later gen card would compliment your system, if £100 is max budget then a GTX460 would probably be the one to go for.

Ock'ers currently have Nvidia refurb deals on with full years warranty.

http://overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-164-OK

or if you don't like the idea of a refurb.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-236-AS&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1830
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or you could take my GTX 460 as im upgrading soon.
its from an alienware so not sure what clock speed they are. cant seem to find much info since dell screwed them.
 
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