best card for £140

[petrefax]

my old grpaics card has recently failed, so the kind chaps at ebuyer have given me a refund of £140. can't fault their RMA service, within a day of speakign to them they'd sorted out collection & 3 days later had processed a full refund on a 2 year old card

anyway, i now have £140 to spend on a new one....what would you recommend?

in case its relevant, will be putting it into an asus p5kpl/epu board with a C2D E7400 CPU & 4 gig RAM running Win 7 ultimate 64 bit

[scaryjim]

Well, from an ATI point of view that's pretty much your choice of 5770. From NVidia it won't quite get you a GTX260, which means you'd be falling back to the GTS250.

Is it an actual cash refund, or a credit @ ebuyer? Scan have a Palit GTX260 @ £138 pre-order - you'd need to check with them about stocking levels / ETA though. Personally, I think I'd just go with the 5770 1GB of your choice...

[petrefax]

its a credit, but i'm taking this as a sign that all the computers in my house need upgrading this means i'll be buying various bits & pieces so could easily use the credit for something else & get a card elsewhere

was giving some serious thought to the sapphire 5770 vapor-X at scan having read the hexus review. decent mid-range card and quiet too, can't knock that

[Growkin]

I have the vapor x 5770 card, and I love it not had a problem

[moussekateer]

+1 for the 5770. Runs quiet and is a beast with games. Oh and directx 11 keeps it slightly futureproof