The Video card in Mrs B's PC is dying, Looking for a replacement but I'm well behind on PC hardware these days. Any suggestions for a half decent video card for less than £100. Current card is an Nvidia 8500GT.
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Thoroughly recommend one of these - Graphics card. Slightly over the budget but performs very well for the money IMO. Note that you may need to upgrade your PC power supply too, 1 - To get the right graphics card power supply connectors 2 - Modern graphics cards can take a lot of power to run. I upgraded to a 700Watt Corsair power supply when I installed this card. HTH.Public Service Posting by the BBC - Bloggs Bulls**t Corp.
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As Clippy said - what is the PC used for?
Also, does it have on-board graphics, as well as the dying card? If she doesn't play games, do 3D modelling, etc, it would probably be fine with the on-board.Comment
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Scan.co.uk: Leading supplier of GPU - NVIDIAOriginally posted by DaveB View Post
£30 will get you a card that cost £100+ 18 months ago, good enough for Crysis so plenty enough oomph for all but the very latest directx11 games.Last edited by gingerjedi; 31 July 2010, 17:47.Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave JohnsonComment
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Thanks all,
The PC is used for general home computery stuff and playing a few games, but nothing cutting edge. Mostly MMO's that dont have huge demands for graphics power.
The link to Scan looks like it will provide the answer."Being nice costs nothing and sometimes gets you extra bacon" - Pondlife.Comment
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Don't know if it's not too late to recommend an Nvidia 460GTX 1GB.
Reason's:
1. it's Fermi done right - quiet fast and ultra modern (DX11 and all that), so it won't be obsolete for a while
2. Most modern games rely heavily on GPU so even your old PC will benefit from a beefy card like that
3. nVidia with it's CUDA architecture has more adoption in GPGPU computing space, so can fold proteins, encode videos (20x faster than on a CPU) and hopefully much more stuff very soon.
Currently that's the best bag for the buck and in the future you can just add another for a very scalable SLI setup.Comment
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I have a GTS250, under a £100 but plays Crysis at 1920x1200.Comment
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Bake it in the oven for 6.5 minutes at 190degC. Then allow to cool. Should work after that.Originally posted by DaveB View Post
No I am not kidding.
Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.Comment
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I did this with my 8800GTX and it worked fault free for about a week and then started failing again, I may try another bake at some point but am happily running a new GTX 470 at the moment.Originally posted by suityou01 View PostBake it in the oven for 6.5 minutes at 190degC. Then allow to cool. Should work after that.
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