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Gfx card upgrade

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  • 09-10-2010 5:27am
    #1
    aN.Droid
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    Hey there!

    I am wanting to get rid of my 3 year old 8800 gtx 768mb card and upgrade (Paid quite allot for this in the day!)

    What I am here asking is what can I get that will give me better performance today? I mean the 8800 was top of the lien when I bought it and I paid if I remember correctly about 700 bucks for it. Surely that means I could now 3 years later get a card that would be better then it for far less?

    I hear good things about the 460's and after lookign around for a bit foudn this on scan:
    http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/1GB-Gigabyte-GTX-460-OC-3600MHz-GDDR5-GPU-715MHz-Shader-Clock-1430MHz-336-Cores-DL-DVI-mHDMI

    What can you guys tell me about it? Would it work better then my current card? is it worth the ~200 bucks?

    thanks for any advice you can give me!


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    Icyseanfitz
    Registered Users Posts: 7,410 ✭✭✭Icyseanfitz


    great card got my gigabyte gtx 460 1 gig off of pixmania for 200 euro


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    #3
    weisses
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    I got a 8800gtx as well and upgraded to this one (ordered yesterday)

    http://www.komplett.ie/Komplett/product/ZKB_01COM/10_GRPCARD/04_PCI-E/productdetails/20056781/eVGA_GeForce_GTX_460_SuperClocked_Graphics/768_P3_1362_ER/default.aspx

    this card gets good reviews .... the 1 gig version is slighly faster

    but hey for 175 euros you can buy two and put them in sli if you want :D


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    lmimmfn
    Registered Users Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭lmimmfn


    Get an Nvidia 460( make sure your psu can handle it ), also get the 1Gig version, is wayyyyyyy better than the gimped 768Mb version


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    Solitaire
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    Also wayyyyyyy hungrier and wayyyyyyy more expensive... :p Still worth the extra if you can't afford the HD5850 though :)


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    lmimmfn
    Registered Users Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭lmimmfn


    Solitaire wrote: »
    Also wayyyyyyy hungrier and wayyyyyyy more expensive... :p Still worth the extra if you can't afford the HD5850 though :)
    lmao, true, but its worth the 40euro extra for the huge difference in performance

    The 5850 and 5830 might drop in price in the next few weeks with the 6 series cards coming out


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    Solitaire
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 18,377 Mod ✭✭✭✭Solitaire


    Its not that much better at 1080p unless you're talking raw speed rather than clock-for-clock (almost every 1GB model on the shelves come pre-OCd :P), its only when you go past DXGA (2048*1152) or run all your games multi-monitor that you see a big difference (768MB cards run into a brick wall above 2 megapixels regardless of shader power :o)


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