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DO NOT GET THE GTS 640 or 320


They're the old ones, which are slow, you want a 256 or 512mb one, which are new, and give 8800GTX owners something to worry about.

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:DO NOT GET THE GTS 640 or 320

ok then, will go for the 512mb EVGA one which comes with crysis for £211

as far as the CPUs go, I'd always buy an intel processor in a retail box, they only cost a few quid more (sometimes even cost less) than the OEMs, and have a 3 year warranty, rather than 1 year.

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:DO NOT GET THE GTS 640 or 320


They're the old ones, which are slow, you want a 256 or 512mb one, which are new, and give 8800GTX owners something to worry about.

The GTS 640 is faster than the GT 256 at higher resolutions ie. >1024x768.

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:as far as the CPUs go, I'd always buy an intel processor in a retail box, they only cost a few quid more (sometimes even cost less) than the OEMs, and have a 3 year warranty, rather than 1 year.

okie dokie, will get the retail box then, saves me choosing a fan too

right, to recap this is what i have in my cart at either ebuyer or ocuk:

Antec 900 case

Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Enermax Liberty 500W ELT500AWT ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU

Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail

EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS "Crysis Edition" 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (512-P3-E841-AE-CrysisUK)

OCZ 4GB Kit (2xGB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 Memory Fista Upgrade Edition Unbuffered CL5(5-6-6-18)

Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver Thermal Compound Thermal paste 3.5gram

Microsoft Windows Fista Home Premium DVD (£175, is that a good price for Fista?)

i just need to know
a) is that PSU gonna be powerful enough?
b) what should i do hard disk wise - one small for windows, and one big for data OR 1 big with small partition for windows?

buy an OEM copy of Fista, you're buying a full machine, so it's legit, i'd go for ultimate, because the word "home" scares me.

PSU will be fine.

if you're buying a new hdd, just partition it, but keep super important data backed up.

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:DO NOT GET THE GTS 640 or 320


They're the old ones, which are slow, you want a 256 or 512mb one, which are new, and give 8800GTX owners something to worry about.

Yes it's the old one, which is why it's so cheap, and you know that they're far from 'slow'!

If I was looking for a bargain you can't go far wrong with that considering that it's cheaper than the new GT's.

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:buy an OEM copy of Fista, you're buying a full machine, so it's legit, i'd go for ultimate, because the word "home" scares me.

PSU will be fine.

if you're buying a new hdd, just partition it, but keep super important data backed up.

i dont really have anything SUPER important, its mostly divx avis ripped form rented dvds, music (some off my cds some off the net), and pr0n. i don't want to lose any of it though

I think I got confused earlier, is it the 8800 GT or GTS that's the newer/better version? I have a GT.

spoodie wrote:I think I got confused earlier, is it the 8800 GT or GTS that's the newer/better version? I have a GT.

the impression i'm getting is the GTS is better, as i said i was getting a GT and THEY said get a GTS

spoodie wrote:I think I got confused earlier, is it the 8800 GT or GTS that's the newer/better version? I have a GT.

New GT is faster than old architecture GTS.

New architecture GTS is faster than new GT (No old version of the GT)

The Incredible... wrote:the impression i'm getting is the GTS is better, as i said i was getting a GT and THEY said get a GTS

Fair enough. My card makes my game go so it's all good.

get a ATI 2900XT

is it worth trying this hard drive from ocuk in the new rig, or has it likely been deaded by my motherboard?

They redid the 8800GTS with the G92 core, the same one they use in the GT. The easiest way to tell them apart is by the memory size. 512MB = New shinys. 640MB or 320MB = Old 'n moldy.

I recommend avoiding the old GTS cards unless they're dirt cheap. The Radeon HD 3870 is faster than the old GTS and it has much more features. Though, if you can spend more for an 8800GT, do so.

The Incredible... wrote:is it worth trying this hard drive from ocuk in the new rig, or has it likely been deaded by my motherboard?

honestly, I don't know.

The Incredible... wrote:is it worth trying this hard drive from ocuk in the new rig, or has it likely been deaded by my motherboard?

Considering it ate 2 others, I'd give it a resounding NO. Just get it rma'd

The Incredible... wrote:is it worth trying this hard drive from ocuk in the new rig, or has it likely been deaded by my motherboard?

Guess it depends if you have to send it back right away, could be worth a try given what I've heard about OCUK returns.

Quick comparison of difference between old 8800 G90 and new 8800 G92 tech (Although the GT is overclocked)
http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics_ ... &chart=298

buzzmong wrote:
Considering it ate 2 others, I'd give it a resounding NO. Just get it rma'd

well the way i'm looking at it is they probably give you 28 days, and i'm ordering stuff to be delivered tomorow. as long as there is no chance of the HDD damaging any of my new kit i can't see the harm in giving it a go, then returning it if it doesnt work, ordering a 500gb drive as well, so can install windows on a partition on that if the 250gb one IS dead, and if not i have it for datas