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PostPosted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 5:00 pm    Post subject: Still around Reply with quote

On my daughter's laptop which isn't worth a damn when it comes to gaming. My lack of a working graphics card is really starting to grate on me.

I need to find a good 9800 card but don't want a cheap version, sadly I can't remember which are the good makes?




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PostPosted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 10:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have a now redundant EVGA Nvidia GTX260 (Superclocked Core 192 Edition) which is damn fine gaming GPU you need a PCIexpress slot though, its basically this card here:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-081-EA

They retail from stores and ebay at around £140, but I'd let you have it for less if you're interested it saves me having to post it on ebay and you know it comes from a reputable source.

FYI: I use an Ati 4890 now, I have the NV 260 when I did an RMA on my old 8800 GTX which died in March, but bought the ATI whilst waiting 2months for the RMA. Since the 4890 is the better card I use that now..

If you really want an Ati 9800 you would have to go to ebay I would have thought. Asus/Gainward/EVGA and Sapphire are the best brands... Its a seriously out of date GPU though you will struggle to run newer titles on it.

If you want to buy new the Ati 4870 is probably the best value, the 5870 is the best but its expensive and really only worth it if you want to play games using DirectX 11 on Vista/Win7.

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 9:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't know much about the 2xx series from Nvidia but your 260 is equal to or better than my old (dead) xfx 8800 gtx then sure give me a price.

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 9:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ah im being a dufus you were talking about the NV 9800 not the old Ati 9800 my mistake.

So in Nvidia world you basically have the 8800 GTX as the first Dx10 card then later they moved up to the 9800 series and then they moved onto the 200  series. Or to put it simply a 260 out performs both the 9800 and 8800 series and is roughly equivalent to an Ati 4870.

As a benchmark example this is Fallout 3 running on high quality settings:
http://www.tomshardware.com/chart...-high-quality/Fallout-3,1445.html

8800 GTX = 44 fps
9800 GTX = 53 fps
 GTX 260 = 66 fps

Lets discuss the rest privately as its bound to involve postal addresses etc, in a nutshell though £100 for the GPU + Postage is good no BS price for us both IMHO.




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