just bought a gfx card

[Far]

just got

XFX 8800GT XXX Edition 512MB

got just over £150 from ebuyer

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/140131

good buy? or shld i cancel my order?

 

[Resol]

XXX Edition, has to be good.

 

[Liandrin2]

just got

XFX 8800GT XXX Edition 512MB

got just over £150 from ebuyer

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/140131

good buy? or shld i cancel my order?

I got the normal 8800GT 256MB for about the same price and I'm pleased with it. Sounds like you've got a bargain.

XXX Edition, has to be good.

Hmmm lolm8? just a guess

 

[Far]

does it chuck at much heat?

and can it play the latest games as high quality easily?

iv got gainward 7600 nvidia 512mb in my current system, and that copes fine with all the newest games. just no idea on what the newer gfx cards are like.

 

[Liandrin2]

It runs any games I have perfectly, has no problem with supreme commander on full settings which used to eat my old 7600. And from what I can imagine the 512 will fair much better.

However it does create a lot of heat. Might need to get a fan or something if your case is compact etc...

 

[Far]

not really any place i can put a fan. but if it overheats, the system will short out and restart right? im not gonna only realise its overheated afta my pc is melted am i?

in any case, if it does make the system too hot, ill cut a hole in the side. or shove it in a fridge.

 

[RedDragonX]

8800gts are naturally quite hot, you should be able to alter the fan speed if it gets too hot, and dont get too worried if the temps are like 80-90 degrees on load because thats pretty normal.

If it does overheat then your PC normally just restarts or you might get messed up picture in games and slowdowns.

 

[mapadale]

It runs any games I have perfectly, has no problem with supreme commander on full settings which used to eat my old 7600. And from what I can imagine the 512 will fair much better.

However it does create a lot of heat. Might need to get a fan or something if your case is compact etc...

You sure about that.

I currently use a 7600GT 512MB and its not even touching the sides of the G/Card playing SC - I currently use and play high range games and not one of them has touched the card yet.

 

[Far]

got the card this morning. after a panicey start of the computer deciding to turn off during boot, it seems to be working fine now.

quite loud fan tho, louder than my current card.

is ther any good program to monitor temperatures, pc performance fan speed etc all in one?

iv got speed fan, and cpuz, but wld like one with abit more detail if poss.

 

[darknight]

http://www.majorgeeks.com/Prime95_d4363.html best u can use for stress testing, we always use when overclocking in ocforums i use.

http://numbers.computation.free.fr/Constants/PiProgram/pifast.html
A lesser known but much more efficient pi microbenchmark. Even on my relatively slow 2.6 GHz A64 it is capable of doing 1M digits in ~2.5 seconds, which is over a 3 fold improvement over WR SPi scores (~8.xxx seconds afaik). Is the fastest known program for computing pi to > 160,000,000 significant figures on PCs.

hmm i also used PC Wizard 2008 or something from CPUID to get total analyzis of system

Most helpful i ever used for cpu temp is realtemp. Simple and easy, forgot where i got it, its called realtemp.zip, v simple program. Monitors cpu temps

 

[D4N0]

hmm i used to have a program by msi i think it was.. cnt rmemeber name but it monitored all fans and temps etc. was a gd program

 

[Rachy]

i use my tongue, if it burns its too hot!!

 

[Shady]

lmao , your pc will restart if it gets 2 hot or should lol.

 

[Far]

on speedfan temp2 is showing 53 (and a flame symbol), i presume this is my gfx card. the temp went up by 2 (from 51) when i put the casing on.

is this normal? i think someone earlier said that it cld go upto 90 on games and that still be ok?