Recent content by G66

Hi guys.. not posted here in a long while but I wonder if you can help. On my old system i have: X2 3800+ ~2ghz 3GB DDR800 7900GS. Suddenly a month ago the GPU seemed to give up and die with crazy texture bugs appearing in games. I replaced the GPU with a brand new XFX HD 4850. I...

I wonder if the RV770 core really has got some "Untapped" power... All those stream processors... I think I'm going to wait for a month or 2 for things to settle down in the GPU market... and above all, to see nvidia's true HD4800 series counter measure... Nvidia have to have something in the...

hmm, thats why I'd want a zalman cooler on mine, I wan't to do some overclocking, but I don't wan't to have to mess around with gpu coolers... but that would put me back £30... At this point I'm thinking **** it go for a HD 4870 :) too bad I'm not rich :) I'm looking to be able to play...

Well if its not confirmed by Nvidia, you can't really say that there is definitely going to be one can you now ;) Why would they make one though? its doesn't fill any real gaps. Nvidia has already answered the problem of the HD4850 tearing into its mid-range with the 9800GTX+

Less heat? This is the HD 4850 were talking about :). Thats one of the reasons I'm looking at the Saphire Toxic edition it has a zalman cooler that puts the temps down to like 40 idle 60 load, instead of the 70-80 idle 90 load horror story's lol :)

Some of the reviews out there just completely disagree with each other, its so hard to make sense of it all without proper benchmarks that I can trust... Does anyone know when Hard will be doing there review?

Short answer; there isn't one. Yet. Long answer; you probably mean the 9800GTX or GTX+, these cards do carry an increase in performance, and can be had for £130 ($260).

I'm sorry but, have I somehow traveled back in time? Geforce 3, Radeon 8500 ? lol Get a 7300GT AGP for the £30 :)

Ok I'm have real problems with this, because all of the benchmarks in every review differ. I notice that Hexus.net benchmarks tend to say the nvidia cards are beating the ATI HD 48x0 series. Compare this Hexus review: http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=14351&page=9 To this toms...

Ok heres how I'm set up now: CPU: RAM: and when I get an HD 4850 or HD 4870... :cool:

People always harp on about "AMD is Doomed!" sort of thing, but in reality AMD's low end CPU's beat the living shit out of the Intel pentiums (Pentium e2160 anyone?) and are cheaper. They may be getting a hiding in the Midrange and top of the range, but lets not forget that the real money is in...

Don't bother with Crossfire, just upgrade the single GPU. Crossfire doesn't scale well. I don't think its worth the hassle unless you can sell the 8800GTX for enough to make it a cheap upgrade.

"forget about the future"??? This upgrade has to last me a while :( I game on a 19inch Wide screen LCD (1440x900 res), so I'm sure my FPS would be ok with Crysis on High settings with no AA...

w00t, just ordered my Corsair TX650, glad to here of this incredible customer service :)

It could be anything, but most likely its another component, if buying a TX650 didn't stop the problem I would expect another component to be causing it. The TX 650 should be more than enough for a single HD 4870 card and some... Corsair PSU's have large fans, so even at high speeds there...