Considering an upgrade

Billzz

Billzz

Billzz

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Hi all

I'm considering an upgrade from my poor (1.3250 VID) clocking Q6600 and old faithful 8800GT to an E8600 (E0) and Sapphire HD4870. This upgrade will cost about £380 - which is OK as I'll be selling the Q6600 and 8800GT. I'm going for the E8600 as its a guaranteed E0 and after my lousy experience with the Q6600 would like something that is pretty much guaranteed to clock well.

I mostly game with the occasional Photoshop - do you think this will be money well spent? Will I be future proof for at least a couple of years? Bit nervous as i've never had an ATI/AMD card before ... but i've heard such good things about these cards, seems like a wise purchase. Are these cards noisy or hot running?

This will all be sitting on an Asus Maximus Formula mobo by the way with 4gb DDR2 and a Tunic Tower.

Cheers guys, any thoughts appreciated. :)
 
my 4870 is quiet if you leave the fan on stock settings...but damn it gets hot. The BACK of the card was situated next to a creative x-fi and it was causing the x-fi to overheat and fail. The cooler is quiet but u really need to turn it up. Especially if you flash the card to either asus top or diamond xoc bios ;)

There are downfalls with 45nm chips though...they are so easy to damage with too much voltage and the obvious you will only have two cores instead of 4. Some new games (such as crysis warhead) are actually starting to make a bit of use of these extra cores now...so im not sure id invest in a dual core at this point in time especially with the new i7s just around the corner.
 
The BACK of the card was situated next to a creative x-fi and it was causing the x-fi to overheat and fail
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Scorching :eek: Die X-Fi DIE.

Cheers guys, any thoughts appreciated
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What kind of game performance you after? 8800 Gt is still pretty good tbh, make sure you need it first!
 
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