Hello all, my beautiful ATI 4870x2 has decided to start dying a death, I'm getting lockups, corruptions, nasty tears and artifacts occurring indicating it's overheating. Im not very good at pulling these things apart/applying thermal pastes or anything too technical, I'd rather just move on and get a replacement safe in the knowledge I got thousands of hours or pleasure for a few hundred quid.
I see there are loads of new models outboth ATI and Nvidia - I can spent up to about £350 but the question is what would you recommend for someone who plays WoW/Warhammer Online/Heroes of Newerth and the occasional game of MW2 or Starcraft2? My monitor doesnt support higher than 1680x1050, I have dual core cpu and 4gb ram running vista 32 and a 1000w PSU and I obviously dont want to overkill. I am not working at the moment so the less I spend the better but having said that don't want something that's obsolete in a year or so.
I was thinking 5870 perhaps or a GTX285. Ideally I would have been more than happy with another 4870x2 but they seem to be just as expensive as two years ago and I don't see OC carrying them anymore. I'm not really into fiddling about with voltages or overclocking so needs to be fairly straightforward. I don't mind what benchmarks I get so long as i'm hitting 60+ frames per sec in modern games.
Any thoughts greatly appreciated, especially recommendations as to what brand etc. Many thanks!
I see there are loads of new models outboth ATI and Nvidia - I can spent up to about £350 but the question is what would you recommend for someone who plays WoW/Warhammer Online/Heroes of Newerth and the occasional game of MW2 or Starcraft2? My monitor doesnt support higher than 1680x1050, I have dual core cpu and 4gb ram running vista 32 and a 1000w PSU and I obviously dont want to overkill. I am not working at the moment so the less I spend the better but having said that don't want something that's obsolete in a year or so.
I was thinking 5870 perhaps or a GTX285. Ideally I would have been more than happy with another 4870x2 but they seem to be just as expensive as two years ago and I don't see OC carrying them anymore. I'm not really into fiddling about with voltages or overclocking so needs to be fairly straightforward. I don't mind what benchmarks I get so long as i'm hitting 60+ frames per sec in modern games.
Any thoughts greatly appreciated, especially recommendations as to what brand etc. Many thanks!