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samuelmorris said:
It was wikipedia i got the date from! Also, see above edit
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Ahh, I was reading here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NVIDIA_Graphics_Processing_Units

Never mind, I see the mistake I made. They are sorted by performance, not by date :p

I get a little confused about that era.

I was on a "new Nvidia video card every 6 months" schedule (it coincided with summer job/winter break job money while in college), but then I skipped the Geforce 4 and Geforce FX generations, built a shiny new rig around a 6800GT, and then completely fell off the planet tech-wise, skipping the 7, 8, 9 and 200 generations. I only got the 9400GT because I was building a new rig, and I had a few video cards laying around, but none of them were PCIe :p

I was always a Nvidia guy, (well at least after my Voodoo1). The 5750 was my first Radeon, and now I have my 6970's

I was considering going 3GB GTX580 SLI instead of the 6970's but at $600 a piece, those were just too much for me.
 
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Yus, I remember the date quite vividly actually, as a LOT of my LAN mates upgraded to them when they came out. I ended up taking the bum option with HD3870s in crossfire, but as the Powercolor card was destroyed by trying to fit an Accelero S1 to it, and the Asus card I got as an RMA replacement for the DOA Sapphire was also faulty (surprise surprise), I ended up ditching them for an HD4870 as soon as they were released - which became an X2 shortly after as I was offered a good deal on one. (If you're familiar with hardwareheaven.net it was the actual card AMD gave them for their benchmarks)
 
I had that same motherboard. It would not work with AMD 5000 series cards. ASUS put out a BIOS update to try and resolve that issue, but it did not work for me. I had a XFX 5870 that would not boot. This was in early 2010 and they have not put out an update since then. You can try an AMD card, but I would suggest Nvidia to save you possible issues. See BIOS version 1406 and the ASUS forums to verify.
 
They're absolute pieces of garbage - my friend had one and it wouldn't read the HD4870 I sold him, which worked perfectly in other boards, but then neither did the DFI he replaced it with.

I put a thermal probe on mine once - the northbridge ran at 75C, and that's the heatsink temperature, not the chip itself, I dread to think how hot the chip was underneath - this was in a well ventilated PC too. Not too surprising when you consider the TDP of the nforce 6 was 70W!
 
samuelmorris said:
They're absolute pieces of garbage - my friend had one and it wouldn't read the HD4870 I sold him, which worked perfectly in other boards, but then neither did the DFI he replaced it with.

I put a thermal probe on mine once - the northbridge ran at 75C, and that's the heatsink temperature, not the chip itself, I dread to think how hot the chip was underneath - this was in a well ventilated PC too. Not too surprising when you consider the TDP of the nforce 6 was 70W!
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Jesus!

Before I fell off the planet - tech wise - in 2004, the best motherboard chipsets around were the Nforce 2 and 3 and ABIT made the best motherboards.

In 2009 when I got back on the scene I was surprised to find that Nforce wasn't very appreciated anymore, and ABIT was completely gone.

At least now I know what happened to the Nforce brand :p
 
Yeah Intel banned nvidia from making chipsets for them, such is their relationship (and how impressed they were with the nf6 and 7), so all Intel stuff is in-house now, and everyone's much better off for it :)
 
I had a little cash in 2006 my friend suggested i should get a pc built so i did intel pentium 4 GT6600 was just stuck on playstation back then an not evryone had a home pc not like now,really i was just hoping for free tunes an movies but i got stuck into battlefield 2 and an played it none stop joined a clan an whatnot, so in 2010 i had a little cash again in invested in this pc then along came bfbc2 and bf2 died so the gt8800 was great for a long time cause that was all i played an its done fine with bfbc2 i was offline for a yr now im back an my system is old an now its a none stop battle with upgrades an cash,,so im gunna squeeze the life out of this pc an i know ill get a resonable game on bf3 with a new card if the gtx 460 is all my rig can handle! thats what ill get!!sticking with nividia feels right but reading what you guys have took the time to reply does nothing but drive me into wanting the best, ive never built my own rig bfor but ive got the bug! To build a budget gaming pc doesnt have to be top spec but resonable
 
i just had to update my bios to 1401 just to get 2 extra gig in lol
i shouldnt have any probs sloting that gtx460 in will i :)
 
skinnyck said:
i shouldnt have any probs sloting that gtx460 in will i :)
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Unless there is some weird incompatibility with your motherboard I have never heard of, then no. I'd call this extremely unlikely.

My only concern was your power supply, as you didn't mention the brand, but seeing that it is OK, you should not have any problems. PCIe behavior usually does not change over time, and when it does (like PCIe 1.0 to PCIe 2.0) it is fully backwards compatible so compatibility would not be BIOS dependent.

As long as you have an open PCIe 16x slot, with one free slot next to it (the card is dual width) and you have two 6pin PCIe power cables available (yes you need to plug in both) you should be all set.

If you don't have the two 6 pin PCIe power connectors, don't worry, the cards usually come with adapters, and if they don't these adapters are usually very cheap on eBay.
 
FSP (also known as Fortron) are a very common manufacturer, they're a large OEM responsible for the construction of various power supplies over the years including the OCZ gamer units (GameXStream, StealthXStream, Evostream), some Gigabyte Units, the Coolermaster Elite RS and SilentPro M series, some BeQuiet and Nexus units, the very early PCP&C Silencer units, the Silverstone Nightjar, Element, and low-end Strider units, some Sharkoon and Sparkle PSUs, the Thermaltake Lite Power and high-end TR2 (non-RX) units, and a large proportion of Zalman's product lineup.
 
skinnyck said:
http://www.advancetec.co.uk/acatalog/info_06040747.html

This spec says my psu has one 6 pin but i just took a good look at it
an its seems it has two?
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If that is accurate, it really isn't a problem at all. Most video cards come with an adaper that turn two traditional 4 pin molex adapters (the old white ones that are usually used for case fans these days, and went into hard drives before SATA). If the particular one you buy doesn't, you can find them in many computer stores for very little money, and next to nothing on eBay.

Something like this:
molexpcie.jpg


If you don't have enough white molex connectors available you can always get a splitter.

I would pop open your case and see what you have available. Either way, this should not be an issue.
 
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as you can theres two alright even though the psu spec says otherwise

ok all good
Thanks
 
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