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Liamb2005

Liamb2005

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Hiya guys, its been a long time since ive bothered with pc gaming so im a little out of touch with graphics cards etc as if i ever do play games i turn to my xbox 360. I currently run a 4 year old Dell XPS 420 with a Quad Q6600 2.40ghz CPU, 4gb Pc with a GeForce 8800 GT Graphics card which recently blew on me so ive resorted to an old Radeon X1600.

I work from home and have noticed that the radeon X1600 is quite slugglish (suprisingly enough ha) but also the second input on my duel display keeps playing up which im betting is the gfx card. Anyway despite that i want to buy a better graphics but i dont wanna spend a fortune on it because i dont see the point with my computer being quite slow im guessing anything too good would just be bottle necked by my cpu (am i wrong ?)

So for Needs really My Son likes using the Sandbox Editor for Cryisis level editor & id quite fancy maybe playing Crysis 2 on my PC as well as NFS Hot Pursuit and would like to perhaps have a go on MW2 with a mouse and see it in better graphics (compared to XB360) also i quite fancy the idea of outputting onto my big TV.

I have been looking at this card below which is on offer today because ive heard you cant enable AA on Hot Pursuit on Nvidia Card (dunno if they fixed that now) and ive been told GeForce arent as good as Radeon for cards under £100. I have no idea at all if im honest and thats why im asking others opinions.

This the card im thinking about getting
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-025-HS

Would that be alright for a pc of a spec like mine or should i perhaps spend a litle bit more and go for a HD 5750 or maybe even get a Geforce card ?

The Radeon 5750 ive noticed http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-186-XF

any advice or views would be appreciated cheers in advance
 
ghutchison14078 said:
Is your maximum budget £100??

also what resolution is your monitor (if you use it for gaming at all)?

I assume the large TV you want to hook the PC up to is 1080p??
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My Monitor is a 24" Dell Ultra Sharp & my TV is a 40" Samung HD Ready (before 1080p really came out) but i will be wanting to get a 1080p tv soon
 
Well you have a very good monitor there...I'm guessing that if its the same age as your PC then it'll be the Dell 2407WFP.

The monitor is capable of 1900x1200 resolutions, so for playing current games that resolution you will need a gfx card equal to or better than a GTX 460 to get adaquate frame rates and nice visuals from your games.

The card I recommend for your needs would be a GTX 460 (1gb version).

Remember to shop around if budget is a problem..OCUK are an excellent e-tailer but they arent the only one.
 
yes thats the monitor i have, yeah the thought did enter my head actually, my worry is overstraining it and it blowing though as i need it for my job, how risky is overclocking and how easy is it ?
 
Do some research online for how to overclock your particular CPU, or ask around in the overclocking / CPU sections on this forum.

It will differ depending on what motherboard you are running as you overclock the CPU in the motherboards BIOS.

If you overclock sensibly and have a decent CPU cooler you could see some decent gains.....

see here....

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpus/2007/07/25/overclocking_intel_core_2_quad_q6600/1

General opinion on the Q6600 is that it can be easily overclocked to a stable 3.0Ghz....... or 3.2Ghz with a very good cooler!
 
i have found the GTX 460 GS 1024MB GDDR5 for £126 on another website EVGA is only type of branding i can see on it but i know thats a graphics array but still 1gb & GDDR5 though, would it be any different on performance ?
 
Liamb2005 said:
i have found the GTX 460 GS 1024MB GDDR5 for £126 on EVGA is only type of branding i can see on it but i know thats a graphics array but still 1gb & GDDR5 though, would it be any different on performance ?
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EDIT YOUR POST MATE....

Not allowed to make reference to competitors on the forums!!!!!

Most of the cards are refernce design but come factory overclocked for a bit more performance out of the box...but you can save money by buying a completely standard GTX 460 (1Gb) and overclocking yourself by using MSI Afterburner.

The Gainward GS version is already overclocked out of the box and is still cheaper than a lot of the standard cards...making it very decent value for money.
 
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have no idea mate, i just took the side off and the only marking was CN-0TP406 on the motherboard, on googling that it just comes up with references to the XPS 420
 
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