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Would love your opinions plz

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
 
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 ?
 
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 ?
 
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
 
ermmmmmmmm would you not go any lower ? its the worry of it packing in on me after a couple of month that puts me off mate, cos my other card just packed in on me..with new at least i know its got 1 years guarentee
 
so if i buy this 5850 will it plug straight in and have everything i need ? sorry to sound like a noob....

also just looked on that benchmark site its quite a lot quicker that the GTX 460 for a lot of things
 
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