Graphicscard advice needed

timberflake

ddoris wrote: »

"....thought this was a Techie forum............Oh wait, it is!" - yes, on a moneysaving website. You could have asked in a more relevant place eg. - http://www.avforums.com/forums/pc-gaming/
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/
http://forums.extremeoverclocking.com/
http://www.overclock.net/
"... Im saving money by seeking advice and spending my money in the right places. " ???? -a few people here disagree but maybe they are all completely wrong and you are right.
"Money saving doesn't just mean going for the cheapest, its about getting value for money." Yes! There's hope at least.

Thanks for that. I'll be sure to get your personal approval on where to post all future questions before making a move!

However, I don't think your suggested sites would be as money saving orientated as this site!

I don't see what your porblem is, the purpose of my post was to seek peoples advise on what GC to go for from a performance AND value side, as far as I'm concerned the Techie forum on a money saving site fulfills both of those requirements.

Off the back of my question, its made me re-evaluate my whole set-up and save me £100's - I doubt your endorsed sites would have done that!

gonzo127

what set up are you looking at now timberflake? see if we can give any more help

paulstevo

PC building is a minefield sooooo much choice.
But the best way to obtain a bult to spec machine at a much better price than MR Comet or Mr Pc World..
As Gonzo has said any info or help needed post up....

ddoris

@Timberflake -I don't even game at all. I don't endorse any sites and don't have any problems worth shouting about.
The fact that you have had rethink is v.good news, a brilliant result! - I know you only asked a gpu question but the background info didn't square up that well in a moneysaving way.
"...made me re-evaluate...save me £100's... I doubt your endorsed sites would have done that!" -no of course they wouldn,t ,they would have encouraged spend spend spend... which your 1st post made me think was what you were up to.

JasX

paulstevo wrote: »

PC building is a minefield sooooo much choice.
But the best way to obtain a bult to spec machine at a much better price than MR Comet or Mr Pc World..
As Gonzo has said any info or help needed post up....

....especially whan you can drop in nice little upgrades like a Blu ray/DVD combo drive for less than £30 over and above what a normal DVD drive costs whereas PC world etc would happily slap £100+ onto the price tag

paulstevo

JasX wrote: »

....especially whan you can drop in nice little upgrades like a Blu ray/DVD combo drive for less than £30 over and above what a normal DVD drive costs whereas PC world etc would happily slap £100+ onto the price tag

You right there..

Spank

I'd get a 300 GB WD VelociRaptor, 10,00 rpm & less than £140, as for the GFX card, get 1 powerful card rather than 2 or 3 mid range. It's more bang for the buck, less heat produced & not a many power cables needed.

gonzo127

Spank wrote: »

I'd get a 300 GB WD VelociRaptor, 10,00 rpm & less than £140, as for the GFX card, get 1 powerful card rather than 2 or 3 mid range. It's more bang for the buck, less heat produced & not a many power cables needed.

meh get the samsung f3 as its actually faster than the velociraptor as shown here http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/storage/2009/10/06/samsung-spinpoint-f3-1tb-review/3 and its a hell of a lot cheaper

Mobeer

paulstevo wrote: »

You are going into overkill with what you are trying to do..
There are NO games out there that are likely to even stretch a single 5970 at the moment..you would be just as well off with a 5870..DX11 gaming is in its infancy and the new better spec cards all run this.(even a 5770 runs DX11 based games eg BFBC2 and the new MOH game due soon so a 5870 will max out )
My advice to you would be to go down the i7 Intel cpu route
and get as good a motherboard and memory as you can with the money you will save on getting a 5870 instead of a 5970 or multiple G cards...
Graphics cards have approx a 3/6 month shelf life before they are superceeded so dont get caught up in the hype..
Im running a 5770 and will up to a 5870 when they hit the sub £200 mark this will be more than enough in the current gaming market.
Which ever way you go you will have a nice system ...enjoy.:T

Got to agree with this

- not convinced many games really take advantage of lots of cores rather than fast cores, so an overclocked core i7 930 might be an idea

- benchmarks of the Radeon 5870 are pretty solid at any resolution

- smaller SSD for Windows only would allow a much larger 2nd disk for storage of other programs

banger9365

i like gpu's
radeon 5770 x2 = 5870
5850 x2 =5970
5870 x2 is faster than a 5970

amd x6 1035(stock)= a intel i7 920 @4ghz (overclocked )

now i would go
amd x6 1035
two 5770
4gb ram and a good asus motherboard
with a 600 to 800 watt psu ,a branded one not a cheepo
one ,about £100 ish for psu
and a nice case like haf 932
and a after market cooler for cpu
and turn off the on board sound and get a asus xonar sound card ,happy days

and a bank of 500Gb f3's in raid 0 ,which will beat a single ssd 64gb but not on accress times