Its time ...

[David 8]

I'm thinking upgrade 

 

 

Currently running an MSI AMD RADEON HD 6950 PE/OC had it since Oct 2011 

 

Still cuts it but theres games coming which I'll be buying soon.

 

Who's the boss these days Nvidia/ATI ??

 

Don't follow it like I used to, looking to fork about £200 on a new one.

[Royston]

Horace does need to go skiing after all.......

[David 8]

Horace does need to go skiing after all.......

 

 

Thats the best answer yet !!!

[TeflonTom]

I was just thinking about computers, I remember the days of ISA slots and of having to set port addresses with jumper pins, and selecting an interupt request numbers manually.. I think I'm a bit out of touch with all this plug and pray malarky now, it seems that graphics cards have gotten clever with thier own internal meommory and CPU.

which leads me onto the next thing.. Even donkeys years ago ATI were making the best graphics chipsets, always worked a treat for me.. Anybody remember wolfenstien 3d?.. The original bad boy shoot em up.

[Neo_VR]

I tend to keep an eye on this  for ideas..

 

Seems for your money your looking at a GTX760 or a Radeon 7950

 

Have to admit my last few cards have been Nvidia.. 

[Aspman]

I went mid range (6850) the last time but when I was researching ATI still seemed to be the daddy.

 

Plus it has a programmable GPU so it'll do video encoding as well if that's useful. Or password hash cracking

 

I kept an eye on UKHotdeals and picked up a deal that way. GFX cards come up quite often.

[joenitro]

I just bought a new monitor (23" Dell Ultrasharp, which is awesome!) but decided my old 256B Sapphire X550 wasn't going to do it justice!

Didn't want massive overkill, so I got a

[Aspman]

I just bought a new monitor (23" Dell Ultrasharp, which is awesome!) but decided my old 256B Sapphire X550 wasn't going to do it justice! Didn't want massive overkill, so I got a

 

A what, the suspense is killing me!

[joenitro]

Sorry, had a moment there!

I got a Gigabyte radeon HD 7790 1gb from Aria for £94.99 with 3 free games. By no means a top of the range card, but does video transcoding etc so is great for me. games look amazing on it too :-)

[Aspman]

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/nvidia-geforce-gtx-680-oc-4gb-zotac-graphics-card-5-year-warranty-includes-free-1651678

 

Bit dear maybe.

Edited 10 September, 2013 by Aspman

[David 8]

Got a new one on the weekend

A GTX 760 OC twin frozer

Nvidia seem to be the best bang for buck at the moment

I think lol

A good 40 percent quicker than the old one

Any one wanna buy a 6950 one careful owner !!

[AlphaPapa]

What did that set you back Dave?

[David 8]

£210 !!!

It seems the market is good at the moment.

Lots of powaah for less money

[AlphaPapa]

I am in the same boat but not sure I can justify the expense at the moment, might have to be a new year purchase.

[David 8]

Don't be such a tightwad. I've told you before too much time hanging around students !!!

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[MaZvRSTSI]

Didn't AMD buy out ATI in the last couple of year......so if they were good they must be even better now....

[Aspman]

Didn't AMD buy out ATI in the last couple of year......so if they were good they must be even better now....

 

Correct. Cheaper AMD chips are getting low end ATI tech built in.

 

I read rumours of Intel going after Nvidia but that was a while back now.

[MaZvRSTSI]

I read rumours of Intel going after Nvidia but that was a while back now.

 

Yep, heard that one too....