Replace nVidia 8800 GTS - Recommendations

[cmndr_andi]

I would suggest paying the bit extra an getting the ASUS 5770 Cucore. It does cost £16 more, but it does come with an upgraded cooler, a BIOS that allows for much better overclocking and a 3 year warranty.

As you are replacing a dead card i'm sure you can appreciate the value of a longer warranty period. Make sure you do press on with the RMA with BFG - it may take some time as they are withdrawing from the graphics card market, but you are guaranteed to eventually get a working card that has performance equal or better to your old card.

 

[jigger]

If you look around you can pick up hd5770 for a little over a 100.

 

[Scania]

I was about to go for a 5770 at around £113 when I spotted my GTX 260 (192) in B-Grade for £100 otherwise, a 5770 would have been my choice.

 

[cmndr_andi]

Have you bought it yet? If not, I suggest forgetting it. If you have bought it then I would recommend cancelling the order.

The GTX 260 (192 core) is based on the older 65nm process GT200 and is thus hotter and less overclockable than the newer GT200b chip used in the later GTX 260 (216 core) cards. As well as the larger process, the 216 obviously has 12.5% more stream processors resulting in greater performance in GPU heavy games. Considering the 5770 is on-par with a GTX 260 (216) then the 5770 will be a bit faster than the 192 core.

Also, there is no guarantee on what kind of warranty you will get with your £100 investment. As you have already experienced one card die on you, I would expect you would want a solid warranty so you can get a replacement should anything go wrong.

 

[iamTakeo]

I'd suggest looking for a 2nd hand 4890, I think it's got more grunt than 5770, but no DX11.

 

[Scania]

Have you bought it yet? If not, I suggest forgetting it. If you have bought it then I would recommend cancelling the order.

The GTX 260 (192 core) is based on the older 65nm process GT200 and is thus hotter and less overclockable than the newer GT200b chip used in the later GTX 260 (216 core) cards. As well as the larger process, the 216 obviously has 12.5% more stream processors resulting in greater performance in GPU heavy games. Considering the 5770 is on-par with a GTX 260 (216) then the 5770 will be a bit faster than the 192 core.

Also, there is no guarantee on what kind of warranty you will get with your £100 investment. As you have already experienced one card die on you, I would expect you would want a solid warranty so you can get a replacement should anything go wrong.

Bought a few months back now and more than happw with it mate, it has a 2 year warranty and is more than upto the games I run on it.

I have a friend with a GTX 260 216 core, and from what I've seen of his rig next to mine, theres nothing to get worried about performance difference.

GTX 260's go for considerably less than £100 second hand, and that was what I was pointing out to the OP, at second hand prices, imo, they are worth a punt.