What graphic card to go for?

Night-owl_6

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/products/a501x1y0z1p1s0n0m0

TechTerry

I agree, i personally would not go to PC World BUT with an increase in these bogus pc mechanics installing keyloggers only place i would say was more safe although PC World about 10 years ago i think, broke the clip on my machine and done nothing about it. I think the tech was by mastercare or something though and i know PC World now uses The Tech Guys. When i went their about.....7 months ago? I told them the power supply went so i need a new one, he goes let me test it.......and it went bang and litrally went up in sparks and smoke and he comes back and goes....your power supply has gone. lol. He then gave the PC back to me litrally in bits, diddnt even bother to plug everything back in and told me to ring the tech guys as if i was to leave it with them it would take more than 3 weeks :eek:

Anyway, with dell now and cant falt dells support, rang up monday and got my part delivered on tuesday as i diddnt need an enginer. :rotfl:

Anyway, thats slightly off topic.

Night-owl_6

PC world are rubbish they are cowboys!

jaydeeuk1

w123kid : Just get this:

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/116422

Geforce 7900GS DDR3 with DVi/VGA for less than £35. Fantastic card in its day, and still no slouch now. Most games will happily play at higher settings.

Power Supply

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/129422

Yes its ebuyers own 500w brand at £17 ish.

Don't let the scaremongers put you off with budget PSU's. The ebuyer one is an excellent unit for the price, provides stable voltages and will happily run all day.

People suggesting spending £50 on a psu and another £100 on a graphics cards, a) can't read your requirements, and b) have no clue.

So for £52 its fantastic value and does everything you need.

If you're in the Derbyshire area I'll even fit them for you.

dagger_meerkat

jaydeeuk1 wrote: »

w123kid : Just get this:

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/116422

Geforce 7900GS DDR3 with DVi/VGA for less than £35. Fantastic card in its day, and still no slouch now. Most games will happily play at higher settings.

Power Supply

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/129422

Yes its ebuyers own 500w brand at £17 ish.

Don't let the scaremongers put you off with budget PSU's. The ebuyer one is an excellent unit for the price, provides stable voltages and will happily run all day.

People suggesting spending £50 on a psu and another £100 on a graphics cards, a) can't read your requirements, and b) have no clue.

So for £52 its fantastic value and does everything you need.

If you're in the Derbyshire area I'll even fit them for you.

Nobody is scare mongering, these are known facts, jaydeeuk.

Do a quick google on the psu you have shown, and it comes up with this: Read the first post. Sometimes you get what you pay for, and this is very true in the hardware world.

http://www.techspot.com/vb/all/windows/t-39263-PSU--Spark-and-Bang-ohhh-no.html

And if he buys a decent PSU, this is a good investment for the future as well if he needs to reuse it. So once again, stay away from cheap PSUs .. its been repeated now and again on plenty of forums, there is hard evidence. Why take a risk unnecessarily and end up blowing your hardware for the sake of something cheap? You can skimp on the motherboard, on the video card, on the hdd, on the processor, but never ever skimp on the PSU. This is pc building lesson number 1#

This thread is getting long for no reason.

Get the 8600gt, if it doesn't work or you have stability problems, then you know what to do. Either upgrade the PSU and get a better card while you are at it, returning the 8600gt or save up until later so that you can actually get something decent. That's what it boils down to. Get the 8600gt from Ebay, probably get a discount of £10 .. as I think I once saw one on there for 30-35 pounds. If it doesn't cut it, you can always resell at same value on Ebay.

Oliver27

Poppycat wrote: »

Theres a offer on Hotukdeals for a Nvidia 8800GTS (640MB)

http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/193793/bfg-geforce-8800gts-oc-640mb-hdcp-e/

reviews here
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3140&p=7

I am tempted to go for a Nvida 9600 or Radeon HD 3870

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3235

As much as I like the Ati HD3870, I would hold off from buying one
now as the HD4870 is not far off release and going from benchmarks
appearing on the internet

http://forums.legitreviews.com/about15370.html

Its one hell of a card, even giving a Nvidia 9800 GX2
a run for its money

SeriouslyStressed

Oliver27 wrote: »

As much as I like the Ati HD3870, I would hold off from buying one now as the HD4870 is not far off release and going from benchmarks appearing on the internet
http://forums.legitreviews.com/about15370.html its one hell of a card, even giving a Nvidia 9800 GX2 a run for its money

Oh Oliver27... look past your nose..... that benchmark is FAKE, and has been doing all the tech and graphics card orientated forum rounds for quite some time ( google it :mad: ) dont add to the spread of misinformation. READ THIS THREAD and the many others explaining how we KNOW it's faked. There are variations of the results ( bar graphs ) which are equally fake.

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I do agree, with the launch of a new high end card, price reductions do filter down, and interestingly Nvidia have brought their new high end card launch forward to beat the Ati launch, so... any price drops will be seen on the Nvidia cards first.

The OP wants to spend roughly £50 on a card and play recent games ( cake and eat it quote springs to mind ), the cheapest I've seen the HD3870 for is £99.99 over at overclock ( Sapphire HD3870 ) so it's double his budget ( and even with a price reduction after the HD4*** launch on 23rd June, which will probably only be the HD4850 model first anyways with the HD4870 coming out later ) there still would'nt be a price drop of 50% on the HD3870 !!!

I have to add my name to the CHEAP PSU argument.. remember there's CHEAP as in Low Quality, and LOW COST as in fantastic value for money, you really have to do alot of review reading and check product user feedbacks etc to know what you're buying. I've had a few poor quality low cost PSU's and had my fingers burnt ( not literally I'm happy to say ) and I've learned my lesson.

Many cheap no-brand PSU's are Fine, for LOW power demanding kit, but start asking them to supply clean stable power to something a bit more adventurous than OEM hardware, and you're tempting fate.

I dont understand why people dont replace and fit their own parts? it's not rocket science, just read up if you're a novice. Oh, I suppose anyone who's recently bought a PC ( ready built big brand name ) will have paid for some pointless warranty ( when the hardware is already covered under your consumer rights, under the fit for purpose category ) and they would invalidate their warranty if they opened the PC themselves. Ooh.

Oh... I sound so bitter! heh.. I'm not.. it just looks that way.

I love this quote...

"Everything Electrical, Runs on Smoke, because, Once you Let the Smoke Out, Anything Electrical Stops Working"