Replacement for faulty GPU.

Pighardia

Pighardia

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So, my HD5850 was faulty. I RMA'd it on tuesday and got an email today saying that the refund is being processed.
What would you get as a replacement?

don't really want to go over £150. i was thinking either another 5850 or gtx460.
i am also in the position where i have no gpu for the moment, so i would like to get one as soon as, otherwise i would wait 'til next week and go to £180 maybe.
i am half way through the first Crysis and want to finish before DA2 and Crysis 2 come out.

AMD set up, but motherboard does not support 'full' crossfire.

cheers.:)
 
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This is the one i sent back.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-103-MS

I originally wanted to go ati because i could eventually go crossfire if i ever needed to(not likely but nice to have the option)
but then i found out that my mobo does not support full crossfire, so would not be much point. (i'm not that bothered)
Now i am more open to Nvidia. GTX 470 looks good.

Do you think that the msi twin frozr's are the way to go. was very happy with temps. and hardly any noise from fans.
 
Yeah, thanks Stulid. i'm deciding between the Twin Frozr HD5850 and the 470.

There is a £30 price difference, but in Stock benchmarks, the 470 is a fair bit better than the HD5850, and as i was choosing between 2 MSI twin Frozr's, these benchmarks should be pretty accurate for the 2 cards shouldn't they?

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/164?vs=160

Now i'm just trying to weigh up the £30 difference, performance-wise.
At a similar price, i would take another 5850 over a gtx460, but is the extra £30 worth it i'm wondering?
 
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thanks for the advice.
as it stands, i will wait 'til next week without a card (just realised i won't be home much anyway in the next 10 days so it's not as urgent as i thought). by that time, the refund will have come through anyway, so i will probably go for the 470.
Who knows, there might even be something in next weeks weekly's.

Problem is, if i did order today or tomorrow, i couldn't really spend more than £150.
So it's probably best to wait.

cheers.
 
I was looking at the comparisons on Anandtech. Very usefu, but there are no HD6000 series on there.
The 6870 looks to compare quite similarly to the 470 for a similar price.
 
Right. I was going to wait until tomorrow to see the daily deal as i can only get it delivered tuesday if i ordered over the weekend anyway. but i just spoke to someone who has a 5870 for sale in the local paper. he wants £175 for it. 2 months old, not used much.

Same price really as a 6870 new form here
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-240-AS

the one he's selling is XFX. pretty sure it's this one
http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/sapphire_hd5870/

i would prefer a 5870, but it's second hand, so it's not quite open/shut for the same price.

what would you do?
 
danzhang16 said:
I'd get the 6870, it comes factory over clocked, not that ugly (a stripy box) and i just prefer the feeling of getting something new, over second hand. I've never bought second hand before. Here's some benchmarks http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/290?vs=294, as you can see there's hardly any difference, and the 6870 is cheaper :)
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Yeah thanks, been studying the benchamrks for the last 2-3 days now, lol:)
it's actually exactly the same price because i don't get free p+p

also, i don't know if it's the way the picture was taken, but that 6870 looks really long.
 
would also be £30-40 more expensive. really don't want to spend more than £170

After all this, i might end up just replacing my 5850!! lol

i was set on the 470, but i missed out on the deal earlier in the week.
 
the way i see it, i can probably knock him down a bit(in price i mean, i won't actually attack him). At least i'll get to have a look at it before i do anything.

Honestly, today i have very nearly pressed confirm on a gtx 460 super oc for £145 and a 5870 for £219, LOL
and an hour ago i was set on a 560ti. I really can't make up my mind which to buy or how much to spend.:D
 
cheers, i swear they were not there 1 hour ago, i've been searching all day.

Prob go for the B grade, what do you think, i can't see a deal tomorrow beating that, and there isn't a massive difference between the 470 and 560.
 
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