the thought of chris, water and electricity combination makes me shudder!

might be a better option for you to get a newer card stealth, the newer generation nvidia gtx 5** series have really good cooling and take alot less power.
or even the 4** series
overclockers.co.uk have got maunfacture refurbed ones with 1 year warranty at really good prices
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productli ... 077&mfrid= (bottom 2)

ahh thanks mate
which is the best buy on there ?
i was under the impression to upgrade from my current card would cost about £100, my current card is oc'd to death, so would i see an improvement with a card from that link that costs about £60 ?

they had some 5** series cards a couple of weeks ago which are much better. they dont use as much power and get alot less hot! but they tend to sell very quick!
if you wana stay under £100 then id go for the gtx 460 for £83.99, imo you cant compare the gts 250 to the gtx 460. DO IT!!
do your research on the gtx 460 and you will see for the money its a very good card, heres a quote from overclock.net forum.

"As much as I hate to admit it the GTX 460 1GB with a small manufacturer overclock actually rivals, matches and beats my setup.
I don't see SLi'd GTS 250's keeping up.

Not to knock them its a great little GPU, but Nvidia got that little 460 f****r tweaked good."

building a new pc for carolan. as we gonna sell her laptop......xmas is comming so i thought of an early pressy....


Gainward GeForce GTX 560Ti "Phantom" 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor
Corsair Hydro H80 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
mobo..... Asus P8P67 LE Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard
power supply..... XFX Pro 750W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply
ram.... Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit
case...... Antec 300 Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black
hard drive.... Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache - OEM
fan controller..... 5.25" Akasa AK-FC-07BK FC Trio fan control for 3 fans down to Zero RPM, Temp monitoring and a VFD Display
cd drive...... LG GH22NS70 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM
dvd drive.... Sony DDU1681S-0B 18x DVD-ROM (Black) - OEM
keyboard...... Saitek Cyborg V7 Illuminated Gaming Keyboard
screen...... 24" Viewsonic VX2439WM Black Full HD HDMI/DVI/VGA LCD Monitor, 1920x1080, 100000:1, 300 cd/m², 2 ms


was gonna have a look at ssd, but i'll wait till they drop a bit in price......


merry xmas carolann..... i hope all our xmas dreams come true...

lolz, "Her" christmas present ? . yea yea, you gunna be on it WAAAYYY MORE !

i'd have gone for SSD tbh and got a cheaper HDD and half teh RAM. SSD is gunna bottleneck that build soo bad !

All in all sounds like a sexeh build though

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showprodu ... =GX-154-OK


fukkin LEET CARD !!!, and great value for money, am thinking gunna buy one in a few weeks !!!

bump


just thought maybe you newcomers would like to post pics/specs of your rigs ? and also any of you who'd like to post about your updates to your rigs, as this thread was done a while ago

Looking at a new card for mine ..been looking at a gtx680 ......see how it goes....

Will do once I upgrade my PC finally! My pc is so bad atm D: