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What Graphics card?

jpd1977uk

jpd1977uk

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I currently have the following, now I just need the Graphics card.
I have £146.19p (inc VAT) for a decent card, mostly for gaming, GTA IV, Sims 3 ect...
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Thats a very specific amount!

Powercolor ATI Radeon HD 4890 Plus 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £145.98 inc VAT

BFG GeForce GTX 260 OC 896MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card £139.99 inc VAT

You can save yourself a bunch by buying - Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM + Windows 7 Upgrade Voucher for £94.99 inc VAT (either way you'll be upgrading to Windows 7 in 2 months, and Ultimate is as useful as a chocolate fireguard).

That should get you an upgrade to say: BFG GeForce GTX 275 OCX 896MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card - £193.99 inc VAT

alternatively: Asus ATI Radeon HD 4870 Glaciator+ 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card * 2 @ £217.98 inc VAT which would put you £6 over budget.
 
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What resolution do you intend to run at. If its reasonably low (max 1600x1050) then I would probably go with what is suggested above. If its 1900x1200 then it might be advisable to find some more cash considering you are spending a fair bit on a decent setup to get a GTX295.
 
I would get the HD4890/GTX275 as your mobo can do both, both of which will kill a GTX295(well just:P) but also cost effective for DX11 cards if you decide to upgrade

no point in spending 340 odd pounds on a card that is going to be beaten by a DX11 card with the cost of like £250 and you can properly sell the GTX275/HD4890 for like a good £100 maybe less or whatever.
 
You can save yourself a bunch by buying - Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM + Windows 7 Upgrade Voucher for £94.99 inc VAT (either way you'll be upgrading to Windows 7 in 2 months, and Ultimate is as useful as a chocolate fireguard).
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good advice. +1 for the ultimate version being anything special, waste of cash that version :(

also could swap psu to this & save £14(they get good reviews) & put to a far better cooler like the true, these chips are very hot when OCed :)
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-004-PP&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=1104
 
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Thanks, now changed the OS to Vista Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM and the PSU to a PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Quad-Crossfire PCI-E 750W Power Supply. (hope it will be enough power).

I now can spend £225.19p (as I have a max budget of £1,000).

I'll properly won't upgrade to Windows 7 until the first service pack is released.
 
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have you got your HDDs

you could add a SSD HDD to that for that money you saved
 
sldsmkd said:
Actually, preorder Windows 7 Home Premium for £69.99 and get the release candidate for free for now @ http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/get/download.aspx.

Thats another £25 saved.

How about this?



Don't worry about service packs for Win7. It's been stable and good for months.
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This is good advice, very decent setup and no need to bother with vista. I would just suggest choosing MX-2 over AS5 as it's less messy to apply and performs better than AS5 :)
 
For the sake of £9 get the retail i7 DO 2 years more warrenty! + you could sell the stock cooler for £9 on the bay anyway.

Avoid asus grapics cards as there rma sucks.

Get a BFG 275 or a Sapphire 4890 vapour-X

Also get the 902 as its got a painted inside & dust filters!

& i would stick with the pcp&c 750 or the corsair 750/850 for there 5 year & 7 year warrentys respectively vs the 3 year of ocz
 
PwnDirect said:
For the sake of £9 get the retail i7 DO 2 years more warrenty! + you could sell the stock cooler for £9 on the bay anyway.

Avoid asus grapics cards as there rma sucks.

Get a BFG 275 or a Sapphire 4890 vapour-X

Also get the 902 as its got a painted inside & dust filters!

& i would stick with the pcp&c 750 or the corsair 750/850 for there 5 year & 7 year warrentys respectively vs the 3 year of ocz
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Retail is like £4 extra.

Asus is fine, it either breaks in the first couple of weeks and you RMA it to the store or it lasts years. You can save £10 total getting Gigabyte cards, but they dont have the pretty ninja lady on them. :)

3 years warranty on stuff is fine, it's heading for the skip after that time anyway.
 
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thats exaplins everything :P 2* whats up with me can't even see a 2 >_>
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:) was looking at the budget, and a pair of 260's was best poke for the pound. These things are bargains atm (same as the 4870's) - but easier to cool and easier on the ear.
 
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