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As the title indicates, my 8800 GT died. I need to get another gfx card.

I want to get one that is on par with the rest of my system, ie a card just fast enough so that the rest of the pc is the bottleneck. Ie i dont need a nvidia 570 etc

I have GA-P35DS3L mobo, with 2gb aXe Ram 1066 5-5-5-15, and conroe E6850 C2D. I dont really want to spend too much. I will be building a new pc in june when the Ivy bridge stuff arrives and this will become my second pc.

which gfx do you recommend?
 
My 8600gt (bought in 2007) has been bottlenecking me like a baws. So I got myself the GTX 560 top last weekend. It scores +/- 7.8 on the WEI and I got 2x Corsair Vengeance DDR3 4GB ram dimms for the pc as well, seeing as it's silly cheap now.

Check out the reviews on the Asus GTX560 top. It's not quite as good as the TI, but it performs rather closely in all the benchmarks etc.

Be warned, you better get a proper PSU. I was sporting a 400W supply and it blew up on Saturday. Guess the card etc. was pulling a bit too much juice. Got a 550W for R500 to replace it.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GeForce_GTX_560_TOP_Direct_Cu_II/
 
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The Philosopher said:
@ ponder : ?

also it must have hdmi our and be dx 11 compliant
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I'm guessing by ponder telling you to bake your card he's implying a backyard mechanic's way of fixing dry joints in the solder connections. Personally I prefer to repair mine using an actual soldering iron (and I have fixed a gfx card like that before) but in this case even a working 8800GT is still a bottleneck for your system.
 
Voicy said:
I'm guessing by ponder telling you to bake your card he's implying a backyard mechanic's way of fixing dry joints in the solder connections. Personally I prefer to repair mine using an actual soldering iron (and I have fixed a gfx card like that before) but in this case even a working 8800GT is still a bottleneck for your system.
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Umn, so you must be REALLY good at soldering if you can fix BGAs with a soldering iron.

Baking it is the correct way. You can even have it done in a proper reflow oven at a place like central circuits. I know a guy that revived his 8800 in their reflow oven. Wrapping the caps in foil would be silly, though, as they would also be designed to solder in a reflow oven...
 
P924, with the correct soldering iron and some flux it isn't that difficult to solder such small things ;)
 
Haha, no. Not BGA (Ball Grid Arrays).

I only soldered the ones with very small external legs.
 
P924 said:
Umn, so you must be REALLY good at soldering if you can fix BGAs with a soldering iron.

Baking it is the correct way. You can even have it done in a proper reflow oven at a place like central circuits. I know a guy that revived his 8800 in their reflow oven. Wrapping the caps in foil would be silly, though, as they would also be designed to solder in a reflow oven...
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P924 said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_grid_array

Are you sure about that?
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Pada said:
Haha, no. Not BGA (Ball Grid Arrays).

I only soldered the ones with very small external legs.
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Yeah Pada has a point there. I've only soldered PGA IC's. The old 5600gt Nvidia card I fixed back in the day just had a capacitor bank that mushroomed, so fixing that and replacing the damaged transistors sorted it out. The card is still running to this day.
 
P924 said:
Wrapping the caps in foil would be silly, though, as they would also be designed to solder in a reflow oven...
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In a normal kitchen oven they can pop, covering them with foil (shiny side outside) helps, alternatively just desolder them from the board as there are only a few of them. I'm talking about the bigger electrolytic capacitors here.
 
ponder said:
In a normal kitchen oven they can pop, covering them with foil (shiny side outside) helps, alternatively just desolder them from the board as there are only a few of them. I'm talking about the bigger electrolytic capacitors here.
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I think you might be a bit misinformed there. Besides, the side of the foil on the outside will make absolutely no difference, the only reason why it has a shiny side and a dull side is because of the manufacturing process. The get rolled in two layers, and the inside where it is foil-foil will be dill the outside that touches the roller surface will be shiny.

(older cards might have caps on that are not rated for reflow soldering, but I am pretty sure the 8800 will not have any of them on. If they get hot enough to mushroom, the rest of the card will be deaded in any event...)
 
The Philosopher said:
As the title indicates, my 8800 GT died. I need to get another gfx card.

I want to get one that is on par with the rest of my system, ie a card just fast enough so that the rest of the pc is the bottleneck. Ie i dont need a nvidia 570 etc

I have GA-P35DS3L mobo, with 2gb aXe Ram 1066 5-5-5-15, and conroe E6850 C2D. I dont really want to spend too much. I will be building a new pc in june when the Ivy bridge stuff arrives and this will become my second pc.

which gfx do you recommend?
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As a very good mid-range card (non AMD), I would recommend the 560ti.... yes, the ti is a tad faster than the non-ti (read, about 10% across the board).
You won't notice much of an improvement from the 8800GT to the 560ti at the moment, seeing as your 8800GT was probably already bottlenecked by your current setup.
 
I've got a 460GTX (the proper one). It's awesome, but for a tad of future-proofing I should rather have gotten the 560ti.
 
Okay i can get a POV GTX550 TI (1Gb DDR5 128bit) , that is just within my budget. Is this a good card? ALso what about ATI cards, are they not cheaper and also good performance?
 
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