Upgrade from 8800gtx

[dannywaugh1]

Hey all

Need some advice wanting to upgrade my other pc a little.
Have a big 8800gtx gfx card and want to upgrade it. What would you recommend not to expensive something for around £130

Already have q6600 @3.00ghz
Mobo is 680i sli

Thanks

 

[bells]

How about a 6870 ?
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-143-MS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1866

 

[dannywaugh1]

Sounds good to me what about nvidia

 

[arc@css]

If the cpu cooling allows, push the overclock further otherwise you will develop a bottleneck between the cpu speed and the gpu.

Something like a gtx460 / 6850 / 70 is a fair shout.

 

[dannywaugh1]

Thanks guys it's just to make it a little better adding more ram 1066mhz and a cheapest ssd into the mix to make it little faster also.

 

[MikeTheNative]

How about a 6870 ?
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-143-MS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1866

+1

 

[Gregster]

If the cpu cooling allows, push the overclock further otherwise you will develop a bottleneck between the cpu speed and the gpu.

Something like a gtx460 / 6850 / 70 is a fair shout.

+1

Good advice.

 

[Marine-RX179]

If the cpu cooling allows, push the overclock further otherwise you will develop a bottleneck between the cpu speed and the gpu.

Unfortunately temp won't be his limiter for overclocking, his nforce chipset is. It will struggle to get above 3.2GHz.