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which is best?

paradisiac

paradisiac

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or would there be something around the £120 mark that would be better, i currently have a 9800GTX+ so im looking for a cheapish upgrade on that.
 
The VTX card only has a 1 year warranty, the other 2 have 2 year warranties.

I'd grab the club 3D one as the cards themselves should be identical, so get the cheapest.

For £115-£120, they're the best cards to get.
 
They are all the same mostly except the odd pre-overclocked one and the vapor-x

Vapor-x should run coolest as it's got the best cooling system I think.
Then the powercolour and club 3d overclocked seem to run at a higher core clock (not sure how much this helps performance though).
Basically go for either price (cheapest being none overclocked club 3D), for the coolest running card (vapor-x, which also has 10mhz faster core clock), or for max performance (Powercolour or club 3D overclocked).

Then the warranties but that's been said pretty much by others. I'd probably stick with either the cheapest or a vapor-x if you want to get a card that's just a tiny bit better. Not sure if you'll see any difference though really other than in temps.
 
ok, that makes sense, does that mean the cheaper clud3d will be a bit shallower than the vapour x? if im going to be running both card will be a bit of a tight squeeze.
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as you can see, not a lot of room.
to set it up with HD5770 as the main card and the 9800GTX+ as the physx card, would the HD5770 have to be in pci-e 1 and the 9800GTX+ in pci-e 2 or does it matter? is the HD5770 going to be shallower than my current card or are all 2 bay cards the same?
 
paradisiac said:
as you can see, not a lot of room.
to set it up with HD5770 as the main card and the 9800GTX+ as the physx card, would the HD5770 have to be in pci-e 1 and the 9800GTX+ in pci-e 2 or does it matter? is the HD5770 going to be shallower than my current card or are all 2 bay cards the same?
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Well I think they are all the same when it comes to how shallow they are, from the pics none seem to extend barely further than the silver plated part that you connect it up with (not sure of it's name but just the silver front bit on this pic http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-114-HT&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1515 )

I've not done crossfire myself so I can't say for certain but I would guess your geforce would have to be in the second slot if it was just being used for physx considering some mother boards have a lower output on the second card (like pci-e 16x and then pci-e 8x for second card).

There may be some variation but like I said it doesn't seem to extend further out than the silver plated part so it shouldn't cause a problem fitting in if you have the same amount of space from your old card for the new one.

Hopefully someone will be able to confirm what I've said on the physx card being in the second slot and this post will act as a bump of your topic at least :D
 
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