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Need a new card ASAP

Petey_243

Petey_243

Petey_243

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I need a new graphics cards ASAP my old one finally played its last game, Now i need a new GPU that is ATI that has a budget of £150 - £200 If possible i would like it to be closer to the £150 Mark.

But the card must beable to handle games like BF3 and ARMA 2 CO
 
Hi,

What is your cpu spec and res?

A 7850 is the way to go. They offer good out of the box performance, and usually overclock very well indeed.
 
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arc@css said:
Hi,

What is your cpu spec and res?

A 7850 is the way to go. They offer good out of the box performance, and usually overclock very well indeed.
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+1 kinda useless tellin is for a new gpu and offering top notch and not providing info all we know he might have a c2d in his system
 
king2104 said:
+1 kinda useless tellin is for a new gpu and offering top notch and not providing info all we know he might have a c2d in his system
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Yes...Core2Duo won't be good enough to play BF3 and Arma 2. If it was the E8xxx, while overclocking the nuts off it would help, but it still won't keep up with the more modern cards.
 
arc@css said:
Hi,

What is your cpu spec and res?

A 7850 is the way to go. They offer good out of the box performance, and usually overclock very well indeed.
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psychodil said:
Get a 7850, preferably a decent cooled one on special offer like the iceQ one.
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+1

Petey_243 said:
Q6600 @ 2.4ghz
Stock Dell XPS 630I Motherboard
Kingston DDR2 - 800MHz 8GB
Stock 750W PSU
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Research overclocking your CPU to get the full benefit of the 7850 bud. Also, I worry about the term "stock" on your PSU. Generally it is a given that any PSU that is not a named brand (corsair/xfx/ocz) are of poor quality and can lead to problems on gaming systems.
 
psychodil said:
Don't know if he will be able to over clock on that dell motherboard :mad:
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Not unless there's a 3rd party bios for it, but that could go horribly wrong.

In an ideal world he'd rebuild the lot, but there's no reason he can't upgrade the card now and then move it into a new build when he can afford it. The Q6600 at stock won't get the most out of it, but it'll still be enough for most games.
 
Devrij said:
Not unless there's a 3rd party bios for it, but that could go horribly wrong.

In an ideal world he'd rebuild the lot, but there's no reason he can't upgrade the card now and then move it into a new build when he can afford it. The Q6600 at stock won't get the most out of it, but it'll still be enough for most games.
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My old Q6600 overclocked to 3.6GHz would bottleneck even my 5850 horribly in games that use less than 4 cores...so a stock clock Q6600...well...
 
i currently got 1 ATI 3870HD left my other one died on me, I would love to build a decent machine but as the world is now money is tight ( Unless i win the Lottery lol ) I wanted a new card that i could transfer once i have enough for a new build. So im stuck to have to work with what i got. As you all know replacing the CPU will just give me problems as i would need to replace the motherboard, then the RAM which all cost £££.

I may replace my PSU 1st before the card, i have a 750 Watt MAX model DT50E but i cant find the dimension so i can replace it hopefully stopping my kernel power issue once a month
 
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