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What Gfx £150?

robnut said:
8800gt with the thermalright cooler.


fancy a graphics upgrade
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Hey robnut,

The nVidia 8800GT is still a good card although I imagine it can struggle with some games at 1680x1050! :D

There is plenty of newer cards out though selling at rock bottom prices to tempt people with £150 cash burning a hole in their pocket! :p

You could bag yourself a 1GB HD4870 for around £100 and still get a good upgrade as well as £50 towards something else nice, an nVidia GTX260 Maxcore for £125 or the new HD4890 1GB for under £140! :eek:

As always the urge just to spend a little more and get yourself something just a bit better is ever present but you need to consider how much power you actually need for the games you play, check some review sites that have benchmarks of the newer cards as well as your veteran nVidia 8800GT and you should be able to get a good idea!

Obviously it's an easy choice to buy a Radeon HD4890 1GB now but I'm sure ATI have some new HD58xx series cards getting ready for launch that will probably *stomp* on the cards selling today heh! ;)

I'm using an nVidia 8800GT myself and although I really want a new card I sadly realise I don't actually need it as all the games I play (TF2/HL2) totally *FLY* on the G92 budget wonder!

If you don't mind the possibility of having your new card outmoded in a few months then the Radeon HD4890 1GB is mighty tempting, especially that Sapphire HD4890 Vapor-X model yummy! :p

 
Well ive had this 8800gt since they were released and ive only just noticed the newer games making it struggle. I think im gonna go with a 4890, that vapor-x looks lovlerly.


Thanks for the advice.
 
silversurfer said:
I reckon if you've held on this long then might as buy the next generation after this one and a game like arma 2 will appreciate that
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True, more to the point when the next gen cards come out [or at least the HD5xxx series, GT300 sounds like it's going to be a while from all accounts....] then the price of cards like the 4890 and 275s should slump a bit as the market sorts itself out....
 
StevenRaith said:
True, more to the point when the next gen cards come out [or at least the HD5xxx series, GT300 sounds like it's going to be a while from all accounts....] then the price of cards like the 4890 and 275s should slump a bit as the market sorts itself out....
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If I'm honest I can't see the 48xx prices dropping much more from what OcUK currently have them at until they're discontinued...the 4890s may drop another £20 or so, but if the 1gig 4870s, and the 4850s drop much more I'd be shocked.
 
I would say the HD4890 especially at that price. I paed that for my 512mb 4870 =(

To be fair I owuld rather have a 260 over the 1gb 4870 simply because of the work nvidia have put into SLI. 2x260 are awsome bank for buck atm but there are no great SLI mobos worth getting.
 
elpedro said:
A bar of chocolate costs £1.40, you may well pay £2.20 for the better stuff.

If a car costs £14,000, you may well be interested in a £22,000 car, just have to pay it off longer.

Crude example I know, but its all relative. If we go by your logic, is a £100 premium for a slightly better house not worth it...
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I don't think you get the point though £100 against the value of a house is different than £100 against the value of a graphics card worth £140.

The eqivalent would be looking at 2 houses to buy. One is £135,000 and the house next door being £240,000.

They both have the same square footage of bedroom and living room space, except the £240,000 has 3 bathrooms instead of 2.

For an extra bathroom? Would you call the person who bought house 2 over house 1 a fool? I know I would, assuming they were both available for sale.

How good a card is is relative to its cost, and how it performs compared to other cards.
 
feeddagoat said:
I would say the HD4890 especially at that price. I paed that for my 512mb 4870 =(

To be fair I owuld rather have a 260 over the 1gb 4870 simply because of the work nvidia have put into SLI. 2x260 are awsome bank for buck atm but there are no great SLI mobos worth getting.
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Huh? Crossfire and SLi work as well as eachother pretty much.

Crossfire is cheaper mostly too considering most motherboards with more than 1 PCI-E x16 slot will most likely be crossfire capable.

Again, it's not really ATi versus nVidia, nVidia just seem to do things to make it harder for themselves.

They overprice their cards, though you could say they may have to with the production costs of GT200s being so high.

A lot of what they do seems to be counter-productive though in my opinion.
 
kylew said:
I don't think you get the point though £100 against the value of a house is different than £100 against the value of a graphics card worth £140.

The eqivalent would be looking at 2 houses to buy. One is £135,000 and the house next door being £240,000.

They both have the same square footage of bedroom and living room space, except the £240,000 has 3 bathrooms instead of 2.

For an extra bathroom? Would you call the person who bought house 2 over house 1 a fool? I know I would, assuming they were both available for sale.

How good a card is is relative to its cost, and how it performs compared to other cards.
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Read what I wrote, that was my point when using your logic with regards to the chocolate bar..... Relativity

Dauthi said:
extreme exapmle but if you applied it to other things would you pay an extra £100 for say a choclate bar, it may be the best in the world but is it worth it? i don't think so.
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elpedro said:
If we go by your logic, is a £100 premium for a slightly better house not worth it...
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kylew said:
Huh? Crossfire and SLi work as well as eachother pretty much.

Crossfire is cheaper mostly too considering most motherboards with more than 1 PCI-E x16 slot will most likely be crossfire capable.

Again, it's not really ATi versus nVidia, nVidia just seem to do things to make it harder for themselves.

They overprice their cards, though you could say they may have to with the production costs of GT200s being so high.

A lot of what they do seems to be counter-productive though in my opinion.
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Yea, at the time my 4870 was far cheaper than the 260 but since prices are around the same I would rather go for the 260. Your right that nvidia make things hard for themselves, especially mobo wise. They should just open up sli on every board.
 
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