Conuk Posted December 8, 2009 Posted December 8, 2009 (edited) maybe have the option of getting a EVGA 9800 gtx 2 or EVGA gtx 280 super clocked or Sapphire 4870 x2 for not much money ... kinda £80-100 after selling my card - a BFG 8800 GTX OC (768gb) you guys reckon Ill see much difference or am I better sorting out CPU (again!) first ? am running QX6700 @ 3.2 ghz ... .no more due to heat. and the 8800 at the original BFG overlclock.... windows 7 and 4 gig ram... 150 gb raptors in raid 0 oh and on a 24" monitor @ 1920 x 1200 so dont need any higher ;) Edited December 8, 2009 by Conuk
71st_Mastiff Posted December 8, 2009 Posted December 8, 2009 or EVGA gtx 280 super clocked better bang for your buck is the EVGA NVIDIA 260 cor 216. but you might want to wait a couple of weeks cause NVIDIA will be releasing there new DX11 supported cards soon or just get the 260 and wait it out too. "any failure you meet, is never a defeat; merely a set up for a greater come back", W Forbes. "Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts", "He who never changes his mind, never changes anything," Winston Churchill. MSI z690 MPG DDR4 || i9-14900k|| ddr4-64gb PC3200 |zotac RTX 5080|Game max 1300w|Win11| |turtle beach elite pro 5.1|| ViRpiL,T50cm2||MFG Crosswinds|| VT50CM-plus rotor Throttle || Z10 RGB EVGA Keyboard/ G502LogiMouse || PiMax Crystal VR || 32 Asus||
Conuk Posted December 8, 2009 Author Posted December 8, 2009 yeah these are a few second hand cards on a forum for sale... gone are the days where I get the latest CPU and GFX ... ouch ! thing is direct X 11 wont affect the games I play...... FSX - IL2 - Lockon / DCS - Iracing.
EtherealN Posted December 9, 2009 Posted December 9, 2009 I don't think you'll really have a big impact from a new graphics card. You might gain the ability to bump up your AA and AF settings a little, but it is very unlikely to improve your FPS - at least in the case of DCS. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Daniel "EtherealN" Agorander | Даниэль "эфирныйн" Агорандер Intel i7 2600K @ 4.4GHz, ASUS Sabertooth P67, 8GB Corsair Vengeance @ 1600MHz, ASUS GTX 560Ti DirectCU II 1GB, Samsung 830series 512GB SSD, Corsair AX850w, two BENQ screens and TM HOTAS Warthog DCS: A-10C Warthog FAQ | DCS: P-51D FAQ | Remember to read the Forum Rules | | | Life of a Game Tester
Conuk Posted December 14, 2009 Author Posted December 14, 2009 right EtherealN... I`ll be invoicing you for the hardware you `made` me buy ;) I7 + Mobo + 6gb ram comes tomorrow :) Hopefully this will be a nice 4ghz overclock... got the megahalem here ready to cool too. Just need GFX card now.... not sure whether to go 5850 or 5870.... Am not gonna go beyond 1920 x 1200 .. so maybe the 5870 is overkill... could always put in another 5850 later.....
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