Need a new graphics card

[Darktau]

Long story short, selling my GTS 250 on ebay (If you want a link, pm me (UK only)) but assuming it sells I will need a new card (to replace the 8800GT I am currently using).

1) Needs to be Nvidia (all my ATI-cards Die on me )
2) Needs to be under £150 (Can be changed)
3) Needs to be available in the UK

I have little experience with the "newer" nvidia cards, so any recommendations are helpful

 

[Skorpyo]

First off, Why are you selling the GTS, seeing as it is better than the 8800?

If you answer, I'll continue.

 

[Darktau]

First off, Why are you selling the GTS, seeing as it is better than the 8800?

If you answer, I'll continue.

Money issue, (my parents will help me buy a newer card if I sell that one as well which is strange. But hell. Free money im not gonna complain.) but they won't help pay for the GTS as I bought that before I made this "arrangement".

Another long story short. No money. Get money from selling card. Get new card with parents help.

 

[Shale_Dirk]

1) Needs to be Nvidia (all my ATI-cards Die on me )

Why do ATI keep dying on you? Overheating?

 

[AndrewC]

www.wired2fire.co.uk


And yeah the GTS is better, I don't see why you're selling it.

Anyway I highly recommend that site I've put.

 

[Darktau]

1) Needs to be Nvidia (all my ATI-cards Die on me )

Why do ATI keep dying on you? Overheating?

Bluescreens. General failures. Deciding to die. That sort of thing.

 

[Darktau]

1) Needs to be Nvidia (all my ATI-cards Die on me )

Why do ATI keep dying on you? Overheating?

Because they're terrible (Insert educated and non-biased reason here)

Erm.. GTS260? They were going for about £160 on play.com a couple of months ago.

Probably going to try for something with a higher clock rate (and probably going to get it off ebay )

 

[verindae]

Isn't the GTS 250 a re-branded 9 series? Nowt wrong with them and worth sticking with unless you're just after a bit more power and there's no-where else you need it in your rig.

As far as I can remember currently the step up GTX series ship starting around £140-£150 bottom end, whereas the 9 series start around £60-£70. Correct me if I'm wrong my pricing is a lil out of date

 

[Shale_Dirk]

Bluescreens. General failures. Deciding to die. That sort of thing.

ATI has been notoriously bad for driver compatibility issues, but a heaping amount of that has been kinked out in the last couple of years. I picked up an HD5770 a month ago, and it hasn't given me the slightest bit of a problem, aside from the shipped drivers not working whilst overclocking (Newer ones on their website work perfectly). Their newer models also come with manual fan control, if you worry about that sort of thing.

Anyway, card was $189 (EDIT: price check -> $175) CAD, so it's in your price range, and it pretty close to top-of-the-line. Overheating is the only issue that I'm concerned about, as it's been tested to hit 81 degrees during overclocking. Provided you've got the ePCI port and extra 6-pins, it's a sweet card for a good price.

 

[Darktau]

Isn't the GTS 250 a re-branded 9 series? Nowt wrong with them and worth sticking with unless you're just after a bit more power and there's no-where else you need it in your rig.

As far as I can remember currently the step up GTX series ship starting around £140-£150 bottom end, whereas the 9 series start around £60-£70. Correct me if I'm wrong my pricing is a lil out of date

Basically yes. Although a GTX would be a cost effective card to get. Nicely pointed out

 

[Reveras]

I would say GTX 460 - it's around 200$
--------Brand EVGA---------
Model 01G-P3-1371-TR
Interface
Interface PCI Express 2.0 x16
Chipset
Chipset Manufacturer NVIDIA
GPU GeForce GTX 460 (Fermi)
Core Clock 675MHz
Shader Clock 1350MHz
Stream Processors 336 Processor Cores
Memory
Effective Memory Clock 3600MHz
Memory Size 1GB
Memory Interface 256-bit
Memory Type GDDR5
3D API
DirectX DirectX 11
OpenGL OpenGL 4.0
Ports
HDMI 1 x mini HDMI 1.4 connector
DVI 2 x DVI
General
Max Resolution 2560 x 1600
SLI Support SLI Ready
Cooler With Fan
Dual-Link DVI Supported Yes
HDCP Ready Yes
Card Dimensions 4.376" (H) x 8.25" (L)
Features
Features NVIDIA PhysX Technology

NVIDIA PureVideo HD Technology

NVIDIA 2-way SLI Ready

NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround Ready

NVIDIA CUDA Technology with CUDA C/C++, DirectCompute 5.0 and OpenCL Support

Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7 Support

 

[Shale_Dirk]

Anyway, card was $189 CAD, so it's in your price range, and it pretty close to top-of-the-line. Overheating is the only issue that I'm concerned about, as it's been tested to hit 81 degrees during overclocking. Provided you've got the ePCI port and extra 6-pins, it's a sweet card for a good price.

Plus DX11, and crossfire compatible.

 

[Darktau]

Erm.... the HD 5770 is a VERY VERY good card if you can get past your bias. You would be getting a GTS 250 with that budget and both the 5770 and 1gb 4870 outperform it by a freakig mile. Hell the old old 512 4870 will knock that card arround pretty roundly.

The 5770 is a stable, well made and well priced and importantly DX 11 card that is low power considering it's performace. Why pay the same price for a card that is a whole DX version behind it and performs MUCH worse?

It's not bias. They just don't like me

and i'm not too bothered about dx11 or 10 for that matter as almost all games used dx9 still.

(Though I will check that card out)

 

[Darktau]

I would say GTX 460 - it's around 200$

Thanks, I will probably get that then. £1 under my price range and I can still use the nvidia cuda support programs that I like

 

[Reveras]

I would say GTX 460 - it's around 200$

Thanks, I will probably get that then. £1 under my price range and I can still use the nvidia cuda support programs that I like

Np, it's actually a great card, I can run ANY pc game out now and most likely in the next many months/year on max. I'm running SC2 on max 1280x1024 and it's sooo pretty.

EDIT: Oh and in certain RPG games it gives me a big arhitectural boner.

 

[Hoplon]

Given the 460 can be had for the budgeted price, why go last gen for either?

The 5770 is defiantly the cheaper option.

One word of advice, never by PC equipment on ebay. just no. no.

 

[Darktau]

I would say GTX 460 - it's around 200$

Thanks, I will probably get that then. £1 under my price range and I can still use the nvidia cuda support programs that I like

Np, it's actually a great card, I can run ANY pc game out now and most likely in the next many months/year on max. I'm running SC2 on max 1280x1024 and it's sooo pretty.

EDIT: Oh and in certain RPG games it gives me a big arhitectural boner.

Must ask one more question. Is it worth paying the extra £30 for the extra 250MB of RAM (768mb to 1GB?)

 

[Darktau]

Given the 460 can be had for the budgeted price, why go last gen for either?

The 5770 is defiantly the cheaper option.

One word of advice, never by PC equipment on ebay. just no. no.

Yeah think I am gunna get it from here

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/prods/Components/Graphics-Nvidia/NvidiaGTX460FermiSeries/Novatech/NOV-GTX461.html

still don't know to get 768mb or 1gb

 

[tharglet]

It's not bias. They just don't like me

That is bias Based on your opinion, without analysing actual failure rates (not that I'm going to research if the bias is an actual indicator of fact or not).
Having said that, I'm also biased against ATI as CCC has a tendency to send me into a mild frenzy every time I have to use that.

But I recognise my bias as being biased .
I have a GTS250 atm, and am happy with it, so no real useful suggestions from me lol.

 

[Darktau]

It's not bias. They just don't like me

That is bias Based on your opinion, without analysing actual failure rates.
Having said that, I'm also biased against ATI as CCC has a tendency to send me into a mild frenzy every time I have to use that.

But I recognise my bias as being biased .
I have a GTS250 atm, and am happy with it, so no real useful suggestions from me lol.

My failure rate of ati cards is 5 out of 6
and 1 out of 5 with nvidia

Does that make me unbiased based on opinion?