XC Cube upgrade

McB · 7 May 2007 at 11:25

Hey folks,

my girlfriend has an aopen XC cube she's had for 2 years for light gaming and mainly wow, However its recently started throwing up some artifacts in game and think this might down to the passive cooled gigabyte 6600GT in it. I'm pretty sure its PCI-x as she had one while I was still on aGP cards at the time!

Anyway, can any recommend a mid price card for replacement that will fit ok? The one in there at the moment is dual slot anyway, so would something like an x1950 be alright, as it least it wouldn't be passive?

Rest of spec is P4 3.0 800fsb, 2x512 pc3200, Win xp, etc. Also would it be worth swapping the RAM for 2x1gb as well, as there is only 2 slots?

Ta

McB · 7 May 2007 at 16:51

Thanks Tosk,

yeah I guess we spend probably £150- £200, prob for some memory and a graphics card. The big thing seems to be the heat issue at the moment causing some nasty artifacts in games but guess thats the passive cooling not getting the airflow.

McB · 12 Jul 2007 at 21:28

time to resurrect this old thread I'm afraid, Never did get around to upgrading the XC cube and now the 6600GT is going super-critical and borking constantly in games.

So, back looking for a card and its AGP really, and something not too huge so it fits. Any ideas? Was looking at this but do you think it will fit ok:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-028-EA&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=411

Thanks in advance, as its gonna be the only way to get the woman off my rig again!

McB · 16 Jul 2007 at 15:01

Hi Alan,

sorry for the delay, no it was just AGP in hers, Im trying to find which one cube it was but its the S478 XC cube with the 'sporty' mesh front and black paint job. The 6600 she had in it before was a gigabyte silent pipe one that was a bit tight at the top, mainly due to the heatpipes running over the top of the card but even that fitted fine, although took up the PCI slot as well. We even tried it with a friends 6600 with a zalman cooler but of course that involved taking the case off, but it ran nice and cool though!

Now she has a 7800 GS OC that fits good, although I had to swap the HD to the floopy bay and remove the hanging caddy for that as it is a couple of inches longer, but seems to run pretty sweet.