Features - Win one of four mid-range Sapphire Radeon HD graphics cards

[sygitius]

Because they fit in my case - ITX case

[needles]

I thought I'd entered this comp' but now I find I don't have the required number of posts. Sad really as Radeon Graphics cards are really at the top of their game.

[wasabi]

I need a silent one. My trusty old '5750 with a hacksawed-to-fit Accelero S1' won't cut it for stealthy playing when the new Thief sneak-em-up comes out.

[Vimeous]

Either card would find a home in a friend's 3D modelling rig where his current 4650 passive is really showing its age. It'll really provide a boost when we add the card and an SSD to the Q9400!

[NatoR]

Sweet Card Sapphire HD 7770 Vapor-X
I'm Crossing all my fingers.

[botak131]

honestly,I always wanted a desktop, but we are too poor to afford one so we always buy laptops, ive been saving up some money(by mowing lawns and washing cars) and i have about 500 dollars, which is not enough money to buy the graphic card and operating system. I know i just registred today but this card would help me so much on building a computer, my current laptop holds an i3-380 with intel gma graphics

[kevinc6784]

I need it because I want to rejoin the real world of pc gaming. I am just planning my first new build so I can leave my xbox and ps3 in the past were they belong.
And because I am a telepathic hypnotist, can you feel me in your mind? You want to let me have one don't you? I thought so, can't wait for it to be delivered, thank you from the bottom of my heart, err mind.

[oblob]

I would love this card as im going off to uni and i havent updated my GPU for 3 years now but as i joined today and this is my first post gl all.

[Golden Dragoon]

Well, hope I win, but am not too hopeful.

I would quite simply like one of these to replace the GT240 in my HTPC, the fan failed on it a while ago and although duct taping an 80mm fan to it seems to work, I do seem to be getting a lot more bsods and driver errors.

[naturbo2000]

Given the AMD bundle turned out to not be at random, I figured I ought to put a bit more effort in (with a story and pictures for everyone else )

My PC used to be cutting edge... 5 years ago. Q6600, 8800GTX and 4GB DDR2 all housed in a gorgeous TJ09 case. It's been that way ever since I put it together and it still has a decent stab at all current games as long as I don't pressure it into ultra detail or AA. My monitor is a 21" 1680x1050 so it's not that taxing on the GPU.

Anyway - recently came the good news that my wife is pregnant with our first child. Yay! Much excitement (not least since it implies that my man-bits would appear to be in working order!). Then the bad news - baby gets my wife's office as a nursery and we have to share my play room .

So the cupboard with my computer in has to be reorganised for her docking station and allow her room to work.

A tidied up shot of the cupboard with my TJ09 in position:

(Yes I know there's nothing in the TJ09 for that photo. I wasn't going to put that much effort in!)

Why is the case at that crazy angle I hear you ask? Take a look at the SilverStone website and you'll see that the case is 605mm long. You might notice that the desk itself is made of regular kitchen worktop, with the standard 600mm depth. That's right - the case won't actually fit in the cupboard square on (well it will, but I can't plug the power in!).

So... As part of sharing the cupboard, I've got to downsize. A new case would be lovely (FT03?). But with old age I've become a cheapskate (you knew that - I'm on a 5 year old PC!). I happened to have an el-cheapo case lying around, so it's all gone in there:


Almost... You see, the 8800GTX doesn't actually fit as the case is too short:


So I had a rummage around for any other PCI Express cards I have lying around and the only one I had was an older Radeon X1800XT It wails like a banshee, but just fits:


What I really need is a quiet graphics card. What I'd really like is a graphics card with more oomph than my 8800GTX that doesn't need me to swap out my entire motherboard and CPU. A quick peek on some benchmarks suggests that "even" a 7750 is quite a step up from my 8800GTX.

Fingers crossed I can land one of the cards from this compo (and that it's not actually selected at random ). I promise to make a better stab at tidying up the cables and reporting back a comparison against the 8800GTX.

And before anyone wonders how I've managed on the stock heatsink and fan for 5 years, please note that this wouldn't fit either :


Oh and I also apologise for contributing to the alleged downfall of PC gaming by also owning an xbox

[herecomesmaggi]

Because A Student Like Me Can Only Survive These Cards. Too Much High End Is Impossible To Afford !!!


(Just Swapped From Laptop To Desktop Only For Gaming. No Graphic Card Yet)

[Samwood]

Gandi once said "be the change you want to see in the world."

Wouldn't a quieter world be a better one? This is a change I want to see. So by giving me one of these cards you are making the world a better place!

Peace (...and quite)

[atomictom]

I would love to be-able to win this prize as i could use the passive one in my dad's HTPC i'm going the have to build for him as he's currently only using ( i think) a mid-range 7xxx-series Geforce card with a P4 processor(it struggles with a 50" TV)

If i got the Actively cooled one i would most likely add it to my existing Rig which already contains a 7770HD card but i would be able to report back the performance on my AMD X6 Phenom(1090T) since most reviews of these cards all seem to take place on Intel i5/i7 processors i think it would be interesting to test it on the different hardware.

I've recently turned my back on the green of geforce and into the loving embrace of the red of radeon and would love to be able to spread the love.

Would also love a chance to report everything back to the Hexus community that have helped me so much!

Thanks!

[Jayfunk]

Giving one of these to my son would earn me back the title of superdad, lost after dancing like David Brent at his last birthday!

[dangel]

..because i'm bound to blow up my PC via watercooling fairly shortly and need new parts

[Pob255]

Thank's HEXUS for another great forum competition.

I would love to get my grubby hands on one of these, to go into my coolermaster elite 120 mini-itx box, which has currently gone to my friend to do his comic art work on.
The build was hardly top end but He's been using an old HP pc (p4 3ghz) and it really struggled with the large photoshop files he uses and the only game he can run on the old intel onboard gpu is dungeon keeper2
He'd really like to play DoW2 and space marine but it's not going to happen, and while the geforce9300 is still one of the better on board GPU's a 7750 or 7770 would be a far better option for both adding a bit of a kick to photoshop and playing some games on it.

Once he's got enough money together he's planning to get a new pc or a mac, then I can get the machine back and turn it into an HTPC

So thinking about it the passive 7750 would be a stonking card for it, low power draw, passive (I spent a while making that case quiet) yet still plenty of performance for some games and HTPC duty.