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Reccomend a graphics card

Ejizz said:
You only get 900mb effective Vram, which will increasingly begin to strangle the card as newer games come out. The extra 100mb does make a difference.
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ok fair enough, how about the card i recently bought from a certain auction site for £130, perfect condition, running fine as we speak on 10.4 drivers (since 10.7 are broken), has 2Gb of VRAM (1Gb for each GPU) and still destroys the GTX 460 at everything barring crysis minimum frame-rates (but as said before, FERMI advantage). so from my point of view its £30 cheaper and quite a bit more powerful, plus doubles up as a heater in the winter! :D

about the GTX 460, heard the gigabyte ones are supposed to be good.
 
Gigabyte GTX 460 1Gb, heard they are good GTX 460, best ask one of the GTX 460 owners though to be honest. ;)
 
anuraj said:
the gigabytes are cheaper.but the cyclones look extremely nice. I can't decide
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could try rock, paper, scissors? that always worked for me in the past. or does your case have a window? are you really bothered about how swish the Cyclone looks? if the answer is no then save yourself the cash and go for the gigabyte.
 
Gashman said:
could try rock, paper, scissors? that always worked for me in the past. or does your case have a window? are you really bothered about how swish the Cyclone looks? if the answer is no then save yourself the cash and go for the gigabyte.
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no. However, I'm goign to go with the cyclones because the difference is only a tenner and the cyclone seem to be better.
 
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If it's just 720p TV as monitor, then there's no point going higher than a 5770 or GTX460 768MB. Not just this, but the Athon II X2 245 2.9GHz will bottleneck a GTX460 1GB anyway, unless you will overclock the CPU.
 
Let me put it this way, I would only 'consider' the GTX460 1GB if I can overclock if I can overclock the Athlon II X245 from 2.9GHz to 3.8GHz...and even then, I'd probably just grab a GTX460 768MB.

If I'm not overclocking the CPU and leaving it at stock speed, I would get a 5770, as using any faster graphic card is not going to be much faster than the 5770 with the CPU bottlenecking...I 'might consider' the GTX460 768MB though.

Besides, for 720p the 5770 is more than capable. If for 1080p/1200p, then I would probably recommend the GTX460 768MB/1GB...but not until that CPU is overclocked to higher clock speed.
 
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