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Replacement for my 8800GT

SupraWez

SupraWez

SupraWez

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Hey All,

Well my trusty BFG 8800GT finally died :(

Its been a while since I looked into graphics cards and I am looking for a budget Nvidia card, it needs to happily drive a pair of 24" screens at 1920 x 1080 through DVI or HDMI, either a single card or a pair of cards running SLI.

My motherboard is an ASUS P5K which I am not sure is PCI-E 2.0 or not.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks
 
Davefran said:
If you could stretch to £159.95 maybe this one

OcUK GeForce GTX 560Ti 1024MB

Or try to drop on a second hand GTX 560Ti 2048MB ;)
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RJC said:
Have a look at the card below:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-173-OK&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1341

or cheaper:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-205-XF&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1866

Comparison:

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/290?vs=330
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Deehjay said:
Yeah, if you want a new one stretch to the OcUK 560Ti, or buy a second hand 2GB one.
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Looks like the 560Ti is the card of choice.

I have never been an ATI fan, all due to bad experiences with them long ago with terrible drivers etc etc, is this still the case or are things much better now as for some reason this card has caught my eye and its much cheaper :-

XFX ATI Radeon HD 6850 1024MB GDDR5
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-204-XF
 
With your Core 2 duo CPU there is little point in spending 150£ on a new card- it will be horribly CPU bottlenecked, and by the time you upgrade CPU- the GPU will be outdated. Buy cheap, very cheap card (8800gt is about 20-25£) and upgrade your motherboard and CPU.

Second hand mobo+2500K is about £200
 
Borsch said:
With your Core 2 duo CPU there is little point in spending 150£ on a new card- it will be horribly CPU bottlenecked, and by the time you upgrade CPU- the GPU will be outdated. Buy cheap, very cheap card (8800gt is about 20-25£) and upgrade your motherboard and CPU.

Second hand mobo+2500K is about £200
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Is this statement about this specific CPU of the OP, or are you catagorising all the C2D CPU's getting a card within that price band?

The reason I'm asking is I'm about to purchase a card around that spec and by the sounds of it my E8500 (running @ 3.6) is going to be a 'bottleneck'.

:confused:
 
From reading through many posts/forums on bottlenecks even if it does it will not hinder you. If you are going mid/high range you will still be fine. I have run my 560ti on my other comp with a duo chip, and whilst I didn't bench it, I did play Crysis 2 and it played it with no lag or stutter.
 
Th0nt said:
Is this statement about this specific CPU of the OP, or are you catagorising all the C2D CPU's getting a card within that price band?

The reason I'm asking is I'm about to purchase a card around that spec and by the sounds of it my E8500 (running @ 3.6) is going to be a 'bottleneck'.

:confused:
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In your case, OC is pretty good and midrange Nvidia 5xx or AMD 6xxx *should* be ok, although its still hard to generalise to ALL games. I wouldn't buy a 580 or 7xxx though. There was a recent thread about a guy who had 100%CPU spikes with some Phenom running @ around your clocks on a 7950. Remember that its not just the Mhz, but the architecture of the CPU that matters.

I would upgrade CPU first if I were you;)
 
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