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snakefood

snakefood

snakefood

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Hi all,

Soo, I was in a wow raid last night, when I get large black spikes coming across my screen, and I see nice big blue squares beneath anyone I click on....so methinks my grards ram lifespan is not looking too great. I had been considering an upgrade soon, but I'm tight and stingy, so wanted to wait if I could... :(

My current rig is a 3570K, lightly clocked, loads of ram a decent gigabyte board. My current graphic card is (soon=was: ( ) a 1024M 560Ti, think I bought it on here on black friday a year or two back.

Please could you advise me what graphic card would match my rig nicely?

Edit: Budget wise, around the £200 mark, don't mind if it's a bit more for a good card.
 
snakefood said:
Hi all,

Soo, I was in a wow raid last night, when I get large black spikes coming across my screen, and I see nice big blue squares beneath anyone I click on....so methinks my grards ram lifespan is not looking too great. I had been considering an upgrade soon, but I'm tight and stingy, so wanted to wait if I could... :(

My current rig is a 3570K, lightly clocked, loads of ram a decent gigabyte board. My current graphic card is (soon=was: ( ) a 1024M 560Ti, think I bought it on here on black friday a year or two back.

Please could you advise me what graphic card would match my rig nicely?

Edit: Budget wise, around the £200 mark, don't mind if it's a bit more for a good card.
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http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-190-MS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1673
 
Thanks for the quick reply, when does the this week offer end, will it be finished tomorrow?

Waiting a refund cheque to clear before I can purchase.
 
snakefood said:
Thanks for the quick reply, when does the this week offer end, will it be finished tomorrow?

Waiting a refund cheque to clear before I can purchase.
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Likely tomorrow but if you post in customer services and explain the situation i expect they'll let you have it at the offer price. ;)
 
Before upgrading, make sure the warranty is finished. I believe most have a 3 year warranty and this could save you spending any money on a new GPU.
 
LtMatt said:
Yes i just took a look at that thread. Maybe i should stop recommending that. :o
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I was going to buy one at the beginning of the week, then i noticed that quite a few people were having problems with the new revision so scrapped that idea pretty quickly.
Think i'm just gonna wait and see what pans out towards the end of the year.
 
Might see what the status of my current card's warranty is; maybe offset the cost of a new one buy selling the replacement I get. Figure the new replacement card should be worth at least £50 in resale?
 
snakefood said:
Might see what the status of my current card's warranty is; maybe offset the cost of a new one buy selling the replacement I get. Figure the new replacement card should be worth at least £50 in resale?
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It definitely would, considering even slower cards like 2nd hand 6850, 5850, GTX460 1GB still fetch for more than £55 on average on the bay...and you are going to be selling the card as "fresh replacement from manufacturer" instead of 2nd hand.

But I would test the existing card in other games (and possibly other driver version) as well to make sure there are problems as well; if it is just a WOW specific issue, OcUK/manufacturer might test it and then find no fault with it and return to you and charge you "testing fee" for it...
 
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Get a 7950, have a look about they are worth the cash as long as you don't buy a reference or an xfx rubbish cards!
Try second hand if all else fails people are always upgrading let them take the loss on the card and you get a pretty much new card for a great price.
The 7950 all the way. I've had three I know!
 
Marine-RX179 said:
It definitely would, considering even slower cards like 2nd hand 6850, 5850, GTX460 1GB still fetch for more than £55 on average on the bay...and you are going to be selling the card as "fresh replacement from manufacturer" instead of 2nd hand.

But I would test the existing card in other games (and possibly other driver version) as well to make sure there are problems as well; if it is just a WOW specific issue, OcUK/manufacturer might test it and then find no fault with it and return to you and charge you "testing fee" for it...
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Doubt very much it's a wow issue, it's pretty much the only game I play, and the card has worked fine since I bought it, which was just over 2 years back now. I've asked in CS forum what tests they would like performed to generate an error to report on, sometimes memory needs to get warmed up to fail. Thanks for the heads up tho, am fully aware of how some manufacturer's charge a nff fee, hence why I'd like to be able to replicate the problem before sending the card back.
 
nuzik said:
Get a 7950, have a look about they are worth the cash as long as you don't buy a reference or an xfx rubbish cards!
Try second hand if all else fails people are always upgrading let them take the loss on the card and you get a pretty much new card for a great price.
The 7950 all the way. I've had three I know!
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"You've had three of them"

This doesn't inspire me with confidence... :p
 
snakefood said:
Doubt very much it's a wow issue, it's pretty much the only game I play, and the card has worked fine since I bought it, which was just over 2 years back now.
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One thing you have to bear in mind is that online games get updates and patches, which sometimes could cause problem despite your hardware and driver remained unchanged.

I know you mentioned WOW is the only game you play, but if possible try other games as well to see if same problems occur as well. If you don't have other games, you could always get on steam and download some free2play games and test the graphic card...in fact, how about go download Heaven Benchmark and the Valley Benchmark and stress test your graphic card a bit?
http://unigine.com/
If you get the same problem in these two benches, then I would say it's pretty good bet to assume the graphic is actually broken.
 
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