Psd99 Upgrading

works ok for me

that card will be fine, you may have trouble with clearance to the case as that cooler is huge
 
christopherpostill said:
What happened with the specs we posted a few days ago mate... what was wrong with all that?
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I think we have a classic case of 'cantdecideitis' - someone fetch the men with the white coats:p
 
Me__2001 said:
works ok for me

that card will be fine, you may have trouble with clearance to the case as that cooler is huge
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ive got a chiftech TOWER

hopefully clearance should be okay.
 
christopherpostill said:
What happened with the specs we posted a few days ago mate... what was wrong with all that?
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nothing wrong with it

if you are on about the system u posted
its v similar to it
 
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 90nm (Socket 939) £117

MEMORY: MY-046-GL GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS3 (GE2GB3200BDC) (MY-046-GL) £109.95 £109.95

MOTHERBOARD: MB-111-AS Asus A8N-SLi Premium nForce4 SLi (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-111-AS) £109.95 £109.95


HARDRIVE: 2X Samsung SpinPoint P SP2504C 250GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-018-SA) £129.00

GFX: Asus GeForce 6600GT 256MB GDDR3 Silencer £140

Total ~ £670


now this is with me sticking with my Jeantech 500w PSU
im still considering getting a new one!
 
PotGuy said:
i heard they overheat like mad. i dontk now if they changed the design but there were quite a few who said that their x800xl's overheated after half an hour and failed.
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quite a few?

and fail in what way?
 
they overheat. Probably due to not having a fan on a powerful card. The 6600 is not as powerful a card and im guessing wouldn't be so hot. or they have a crap heatsink on the x800

as for the number of people, there are probably 1/4 that say it overheated after 20/30 mintues. The others said it played fine hours on end. I would imagine it has alot to do with the cooling inside your case, as the heat on the heatsink needs to be dissipated.
 
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the people reporting problems are probably the people that dont have any case fans, you have to have some sort of flow through the case to keep the system cool or evenually it will cook
 
cool

ill get a SILENT case fan so its near the fan!

so which graphics card do u think i should go for the one Postill suggested?
any others then price range max £150 but its got to be v v good then!
 
christopherpostill said:
Sapphire X800GTO2?
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this one:

Sapphire ATI Radeon X800 GTO Ultimate 256MB DDR3 TV-Out/DVI ?

its around £140


wat do u think of it
 
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