If you had £130 today what card would you buy

[Roeg1]

My xfx8800Gtx gave up the ghost last couple of days pretty disapointed really was only brought last march at £225 from ocuk i was kinda badgered into it buy the guy in the shop also i heard xfx was poor but he said no your be fine and its dead already.

I changed the cooler on it to a thermalright as the stock one was very poor imo which worked fine since April now i get corruption red little lines all down the screen, only way i can boot the pc without it locking up is to un-install the display driver, changing the cooler Its now void the warranty asnt it ?

I need a graphics card today my bank account is empty but i've manged to scrap togther £130 pound so if it was your cash what would you buy ?

 

[Roeg1]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-004-OE&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=927

Yer I just saw this and am leaning towards that, I would go for a 4890 but the only one I can afford is the power color one which looks a bit cheap from stuff i've read online the pcd is reference but everything else is cheap, the cooler also sounds like an hoover, after changing this cooler and buggering up my warranty I doubt id ever do that or listen to an ocuk sales guy ever again.

Im going over at lunch time so does everyone recommend the 260 then ?

 

[Roeg1]

Are the drivers now stable and good for the 4890 ? i remmeber when the 4870 came out there was lots of issues and the average fps- lowest was very poor compared to the 260 yes on max fps it beat the 260 hands down, but average and lowest there was some very odd dips.

 

[Roeg1]

If you still have the original 8800GTX cooler, it should still be under warranty.

In the mean time, I'd personally for a GTX 260 with a decent warranty and fan. Yes the 4890 is faster but Powercolor isn't a great make and you only get a 1 year warranty.

A lot of people in this thread have just ignored what you said in your 2nd post, obviously you want a quiet card, so that Palit, which also comes with a 2 year warranty might be a better purchase.

Thanks mate at last a decent reply, yes it does seem a lot of people on here just ignore what the op says and just shouts some form of reply without backing it up.

Ill have to have a look at refitting this cooler then to the gtx as its here next to me may be missing a few screws but ill see what I can dig up. thank you for the time you have taken to give me a better reply that just shouting 4890

 

[Roeg1]

Well I went went with the 260, more than happy very nice upgrade from an 8800 GTX much better IQ, people who say its noisey really cant have owned an 8800 GTX to me its silent my corsair hx 620 is easily louder than it.

Fan asnt span up past 40% yet and after playing Empire total Wars for about 5 hours last night it was still under 70 degrees.

Left 4 dead can now be maxed at 1920x1200 with much better solid fps same as empire total wars everything on ultra and it seemed very good, no major slow down anywhere.

My only gripe is where the hell was my free game and my glasses ? Its advertised to come with both the game and 3d glasses but nothing in the box or anything ? pretty poor ocuk advertise free stuff it seems when ever I actually buy it the free games and goodies are never in sight as this isn't the first time this as happened

 

[Roeg1]

They sometimes indeed forget it, you need to contact them and they will usually send it after a while.

Thank you, ill send a web note. All is forgiven it was a Saturday afternoon and im more than happy with my purchase. I can live without the game until they can get one out.