8800 GT died :(

Good card for the price, I would go for it unless you can get an AMD 6850 (one up from GTX550Ti) / 6770/6790 (equivalents) of same 2 year warranty, cheaper.
 
@ponder. I recently reflowed my graphics card on your recommendation. When will you be delivering my new card, as mine is worse now.

jk :D.

Bought myself a HD6790 for R1470 from takealot. But wouldn't recommend it to the op as it has quite beefy power requirements compared to the 5770.
 
The Philosopher said:
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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The 450GTS and 550 is not a good card. It's ~ the same speed as the 8800GT/9800GT but with newer tech.
 
wpswart006 said:
@ponder. I recently reflowed my graphics card on your recommendation. When will you be delivering my new card, as mine is worse now.

jk :D.
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You get nothing! :p

It's a luck of the draw thing. You win some you lose some. If a card is dead it's worth a try, I've had some luck and some that just stayed dead.
 
I just read something about bottlenecks. Can one of you techno gurus tell me if I replace my old 9800GTX with a 570GTX OC edition (MSI TwinFrozr to be exact) and I still have an ol' Core 2 Duo 3.0 ghz and 8GB DDR2 800mhz of RAM, will a bottleneck exist? I have a Thermaltake toughpower 750Watt psu so I'm good there.
 
@AFK:
Your CPU will most definitely be the bottleneck with modern games that are optimized for quad core CPU's. Your RAM would be sufficient.

If you have an C2D E8xxx series CPU, then you might be OK in terms of CPU speed for most games, but it would most definitely be the bottleneck at resolutions lower than 1920x1080.

@The Philosopher:
A 500W PSU would be more than enough for a GTX560Ti/GTX460, however I doubt that your PSU can even deliver 300W, especially if it is a few years old now.
 
My Corsair 450W psu delivers enough current for the 460GTX, but borderline enough for the 560ti.
But yes, @OP, make sure your power supply can handle 32A (recommended for the 560ti) or whatever for the graphics card you are considering.
 
Pada said:
@AFK:
Your CPU will most definitely be the bottleneck with modern games that are optimized for quad core CPU's. Your RAM would be sufficient.

If you have an C2D E8xxx series CPU, then you might be OK in terms of CPU speed for most games, but it would most definitely be the bottleneck at resolutions lower than 1920x1080.
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Yaayy! I have an E8xxx series CPU. If you're talking about a quad core CPU, do you mean the new i5, i7 processors or are the old quad cores also included?
 
Pada said:
@AFK:
Your CPU will most definitely be the bottleneck with modern games that are optimized for quad core CPU's. Your RAM would be sufficient.

If you have an C2D E8xxx series CPU, then you might be OK in terms of CPU speed for most games, but it would most definitely be the bottleneck at resolutions lower than 1920x1080.
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Would a upgrade to a quad core be a good option in this case seeing that board can handle all the socket 775 quad cores. How would gaming performance be?
 
If you can get your hands on a secondhand Q9550 for like R1k, then you should be able to play games just fine - especially if you have an aftermarket cooler to overclock it a bit. You can ask PostmanPot, because he made an upgrade to the Q9550 a long while ago IIRC.

You can use Task Manager & GPU-z to check which component is the bottleneck. If the CPU is maxed out on both cores, then that will be your bottleneck.
 
froot said:
My Corsair 450W psu delivers enough current for the 460GTX, but borderline enough for the 560ti.
But yes, @OP, make sure your power supply can handle 32A (recommended for the 560ti) or whatever for the graphics card you are considering.
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In reality it doesn't need anywhere near 32A. That's the gfx manufacturers covering their asses because people use cheap PSUs that lie about their output.
 
Can we recheck the GTX 550 Ti. Is it really that bad? it is Such a good price. If i go higher I literally jump to 2k.
 
The Philosopher said:
Can we recheck the GTX 550 Ti. Is it really that bad? it is Such a good price. If i go higher I literally jump to 2k.
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Honestly, it's not really a feasible upgrade on the 8800GT/9800GT.
But OP, what's your budget? (I didn't see a post mentioning)
 
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