Well my 4870 from ebay actually arrived but i managed to kill it giving it the silent treatment with WCing (the fan was louder than a jet engine terrible!)
So now looking for a new card again, not getting a 4890 or 4870 as i thinking now i may aswell get the best i can afford now. Im using a 9600GT from a mate in the mean time.
I was looking at the hexus reviews/benchmarks and now im thinking about getting a gtx 460, they are priced quite well and in my budget (below £200). The main bonus with this is that my current motherboard is an SLI one (is a x16/x16 io believe but before it was released some said 8/8) so i could add another one down the line for a very good performance boost.
Now the tough decision is what card do i get? the 1gb or the 768mb one? I know the 1gb performs better but is it worth it for the price? Planning on getting a 24" monitor (1900x1200) end of this year so i assume the extra bandwidth would be very useful right?.
Any suggestions as to what make/model i should get? Silence and value for money is what im after (kinda hard to get both i know). If there are ones prefitted with WC blocks on them lemme know as its a route i will take if needed (i jsuit dont trust myself with installing a block again haha).
Any help is appreciated!.
edit: Been looking at sli comparisons and it seems a gtx 460 768mb evga pair can hold its own agains a pair of 1gb 460's, im pretty sure its because the evga are the SC versions so are overclocked a fair amount so would perform better but it makes me wonder if its worth paying the extra for the 1gb version.
So far ive been thinking abnout these ones: http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/768MB...DVI-D-Sub-HDMI
and http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/1GB-P...I-I-HDMI-D-Sub
The latter is overclocked like mad and palit offer 2 years warranty so that should be fine, along with it being only £10 more than the cheapest 1gb card