Graphics Cards - upgrade?

[Graham_Thomas Profile]

Hi there, thought I'd christen this thread. I currently have a 8800GT. I play Counter-Strike, GRID, COD etc. What would constitute, for me, an upgrade for less than £150? Any ideas welcomed.

[kingabs]

Whats your current system spec?

[sid180 Profile]

Yup would have to agree with King, post back your system specs as this will aid in helpig you find the best graphics card for money.

[Graham_Thomas Profile]

6400+ AMD, 2 gig RAM with a 4 gig pen drive used as Readyboost. Mobo is Asus 590 SLi (M2N32-SLI Deluxe). Thanks guys.

[kingabs]

You could go for:

Asus GeForce GTX 260 Glaciator 896MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card

which is priced around the £148

Also this would be ideal as your CPU might bottlneck new games that you may play so this will help take the load of your CPU.

The Asus GeForce GTX 260 graphics card rips through DirectX 10 games at blazing fast frame rates and enables realistic physical motion and massively destructible environments with NVIDIA's new PhysX. technology. And that's not all, the Asus GeForce GTX 260 graphics card also supports extreme HD (2560x1600) resolutions, and gives your system the power of up to 216 multi-threaded processor cores, offloading the most intensive processing tasks from your CPU to your Graphics Processing Unit (GPU).

- Core Clock: 576MHz
- Memory: 896MB GDDR3
- Memory Clock: 1998MHz (Effective)
- Memory Interface: 448-Bit
- Processing Cores: 216
- Shader Clock: 1242MHz
- Bus Type: PCI-Express 2.0
- Display Connectors: 2 Dual-Link DVI-I
- 5.8oz Copper Rod Fansink
- SLI Ready
- HDCP Capable
- DirectX 10 Support
- OpenGL 2.1 Support
- PhysX Enabled
- CUDA Enabled
- Warranty: 3 Years

[Graham_Thomas Profile]

Thanks for that kingabs. I was thinking of the same card myself. Any other ideas please?

[sid180 Profile]

That was the card i was thinking about. Guess great minds think alike :-0