Best GPU for £300

[kempez]

Great review. Thanks man

[ja3h]

Cheers Xenctuary!

That review has also shifted me to get a gt. But do you think extra £40 is worth the extra 4 pipelines?

[kempez]

Cheers Xenctuary!

That review has also shifted me to get a gt. But do you think extra £40 is worth the extra 4 pipelines?

YEAH!! £40?? Where is that? Cheapest I've seen one is for £340!!

[ja3h]

i mean ...

gt 20 pipelines - 300
gtx 24 pipelines - 340
(but u already knew that! )

Saw a point of view one for 330!!

[krazy_olie]

Thing is that a GT can be had for a fair bit under £300

[Olly1234]

These guys do GT for £269 http://www.xtsit.com/browse/product_...s.php?id=10624

[ja3h]

I just want to make sure i make the right purchase! (lotta money! )

ooh thanks for that linky mate!

So either a gt for 270 or a gtx for 330? What would you choose?

[Xenctuary]

I'd go for the XFX nVidia GeForce 7800GT. In fact, I did go for it and I'm not disappointed at all. It is an amazing card that was some £60 cheaper than the stock 7800GTX. I used the money saved and put it toward a better CPU. As was quoted in the previous review:

While these differences were measurable by scientific means in nearly all of our tests, they will simply not be great enough for most gamers, to notice. What is 5 to 8 FPS in a game when you're already pushing 80+? Negligible.

I highly recommend investing in other components that will help your GPU perform to its best. That is, of course, unless you've got the cash!

[nvening]

ahhhhhhhhhhhh i want a 7800gt any one want a second had x800xt?

[yelpir]

Just thought I'd resurrect this thread with an observation.

I built the system up with the parts I mentioned earlier.

I'm mainly playing Battlefield 2 at the moment so I was curious to see it with all the eye candy turned on.

For the first couple of days the system ran fine, but then I got constant beeps at post (memory wasn't seated properly), as I didn't have time to diagnose the memory straight away I just took 1 stick out for the short while.

Running the game at this point i.e with 1 Gig of RAM instead of 2 was enlightening. The maps become really jerky and load times are considerably increased. The first 2 minutes of any map are unplayabe as the image jerks around.

I reseated the other RAM last night and all is back to normal - i.e Superb, the game is smooth, the graphics incredible and my aim still poor.

The point really is that even with a 7800GT and a 3700+ the game still could not be run at it's highest settings without problems on only 1GB of RAM, it really does need that extra GB to smooth things out. Just something for those looking at upgrades to consider.

[jamena]

The point really is that even with a 7800GT and a 3700+ the game still could not be run at it's highest settings without problems on only 1GB of RAM, it really does need that extra GB to smooth things out. Just something for those looking at upgrades to consider.

This is true if you're running it at higher resolution certainly - a mate clocked BF2 at using up 1,3Gb of his 2Gb of DDR. Then again I'm not entirely sure what everyone is on about because I'm running BF2 at medium settings @1280x960 on my 9800pro and xp2400+ and 1Gb pc2700 (could be at 2100 speeds, I forget what I did to it) and the game is currently lag and jerk free from the start of the map. There's quite a few guides out there no tweaking your system for BF2 but I'd say the main two things to do are:
1-once you've settled on a graphics setup, delete all the optimisations (smoewhere in the BF2 folders - will find a link if you have trouble googling it?) and then run the game and let it optimise the shaders etc for your chosen resolution and try not to change it too much from then on.
2-after doing the above, defrag your hard drive.

[999tigger]

Can I just point out that Scan on today only has the 7800 GT for £252 and get your free delivery on that.the gigabyte has a poor software bundle, but it does have a 3 as opposed to a 2 year warranty. Cionsidering my friends graphics card recently went down after only two weeks, then I'm paying more attention to the warranty that comes with a product.

[intelnetx]

SCAN have a nice Gigabyte 7800GT for £260 - gigabyte are a good solid brand too

I bought that card on Friday, it arrived here Monday (from Scan) for £266.98 to my door, the 3 year warranty, decent bundle, nice box and excellent GPU make this card simply incomparable to anything I have ever had before. I possess no game that I cannot run at full details at 1280x1024 now, and that is certainly worth the money. You may aswell save the £30, besides the XFX card comes with a 2 year warranty (at the time of posting) and I am convinced the Gigabyte card will do anything you want it to. Alternately of course you could wait until the 7800 GTX's drop, I've seen a couple for around £320 recently

[limpduck]

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=92892

Galaxy GF 7800GTX 256MB DDR3 430mhz core PCI-E
£306.25 inc VAT

cheapest ive seen it at,

out of interest what cpu you guys run with it, from what ive read you need a top class cpu to get any where near top speeds out of this beast?

[Wiczy]

yes but a 7800gt at the same clock and memory speeds as a 7800gtx is not as fast becuase it has less pipes

Depends on the resolution you play @ and what game you play. In some cases the GT is quicker

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/vid...-17gpu_16.html <-- have a look through the results here

[Xenctuary]

The point really is that even with a 7800GT and a 3700+ the game still could not be run at it's highest settings without problems on only 1GB of RAM, it really does need that extra GB to smooth things out. Just something for those looking at upgrades to consider.

While 2Gb really is recommended, it's worth noting I can smoothly play Battlefield 2 on maximum settings, with forced 16xAF and 8xS AA from the card itself, at 1024x768 with 1Gb.