With the addition of a nice new 24" monitor I feel my 2900 wont really cope with what I want it to do.. sooo I'm looking for something on a budget, I'm thinking of going for an 8800GTX/Ultra they seem to be selling around the 100ish mark from the bay. Can anyone tell me if any of the current new offerings can compete at that price/performance? So as I say budget is 100ish.
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A 2900 won't be great for a 24" monitor, mine is sat here unloved on the bench. It was in my second PC but I don't use that for gaming at the moment so that's running a 6600GT to save power and noise.
A single 8800GTS 512 / GTX / 9800 GTX will perform well for most games other than Crysis especially if you step the resolution down to 16x10 ... tbh I can't really tell which resolution I'm playing in unless I look closely at the screen. The 9800GTX is basicailly a 8800GTS 512 with a 4% clock speed boost and faster memory.
Thing is though, from a performance perspective one of the above won't be a huge leap from the 2900.
From a new perspective the 4850 is a good budget card and overclocks rather nicely if you get one with a non standard cooler or add a better cooler in otherwsie in your budget get the fastest 8800 you can.
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A single 8800GTS 512 / GTX / 9800 GTX will perform well for most games other than Crysis especially if you step the resolution down to 16x10 ... tbh I can't really tell which resolution I'm playing in unless I look closely at the screen. The 9800GTX is basicailly a 8800GTS 512 with a 4% clock speed boost and faster memory.
Thing is though, from a performance perspective one of the above won't be a huge leap from the 2900.
From a new perspective the 4850 is a good budget card and overclocks rather nicely if you get one with a non standard cooler or add a better cooler in otherwsie in your budget get the fastest 8800 you can.
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If you could push to £135, the 4850 would be much better as although the 8800 is a quick card still, it isn't new tech.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail
I've found a G92 512mb GTS for 130 quid, and the 4850 is similarly priced, but every bench I can find basically shows them around the same scores. I'm in two minds now, I'd rather the GTS for the drivers but I trust ATi.. help 
The GTS will overclock a little......
The 4850 will overclock quite a lot because it's the same core with all pipelines enabled as the 4870... just clocked a fair bit slower. The 4850 uses GDDR3 instead of GDDR5 so the won't be equal even with matching core clocks but it's quite close.
Comes down to personal choice but I'd have a look in the members marked if you want an 8800. The GTS and GTX trade for quite a bit cheaper than new prices....
For a 4850 ... you might as well get new
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The 4850 will overclock quite a lot because it's the same core with all pipelines enabled as the 4870... just clocked a fair bit slower. The 4850 uses GDDR3 instead of GDDR5 so the won't be equal even with matching core clocks but it's quite close.
Comes down to personal choice but I'd have a look in the members marked if you want an 8800. The GTS and GTX trade for quite a bit cheaper than new prices....
For a 4850 ... you might as well get new
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The 8800GTS would be new though, ah decisions decisions
Basically so far I'm leaning toward the GTS because the cooler looks to be better. :/ Am I right in thinking 9800 is still g92? so just re-badged 8800?
Ok after sifting through as much reviews as possible today, best I can find for money/performance is this http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail
I don't think I can do any better for £135.
I don't think I can do any better for £135.