PowerColor HD 6850 1GB GDDR5 Dual DVI HDMI DisplayPort PCI-E Graphics Card - Ebuyer.com - £97.99

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  archer12041 year, 4 months ago #1Show comment toolsReply

  nice
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  Noclouds1 year, 4 months ago #2Show comment toolsReply

  At last these are available for sub £100. I was getting despondent about how predictably long it was taking AMD to bring out their new 7*** series cards and for there to be a price reduction knock-on down the range of nvidia 560 TI and old amd 6850 / 6870 cards. Could use a bundled game to sweeten the deal a little and perhaps Dabs will do that. Meantime, either way, fairly hot, for me. Not all games are happy with two 6850s but my friend running them says drivers have improved things a lot.
  

  
  Edited By: Noclouds on Jan 05, 2012 01:18
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  HedgyHoggy1 year, 4 months ago #3Show comment toolsReply

  'Not all games are happy with two 6850s but my friend running them says drivers have improved things a lot.' - drivers will never get rid of the input lag.
  
  It's a hardware problem, which even the new 7000 series won't fix. Oh well, maybe in another decade...
  
  

  Noclouds

  At last these are available for sub £100. I was getting despondent about how predictably long it was taking AMD to bring out their new 7*** series cards and for their to be a price reduction knock-on down the range of nvidia 560 TI and old amd 6850 / 6870 cards. Could use a bundled game to sweeten the deal a little and perhaps Dabs will do that. Meantime, either way, fairly hot, for me. Not all games are happy with two 6850s but my friend running them says drivers have improved things a lot.
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  Maniek1331 year, 4 months ago #4Show comment toolsReply

  great card to upgrade older systems
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  renderman1 year, 4 months ago #5Show comment toolsReply

  Just one of these can play Rage at 1920x1080 with everything ramped up to the max at decent frame rates, it's a real bargain.
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  xela3331 year, 4 months ago1 Like #6Show comment toolsReply

  renderman

  Just one of these can play Rage at 1920x1080 with everything ramped up to the max at decent frame rates, it's a real bargain.

  
  
  Depends on your CPU of course. Great card for the money, well spent over something like a 5770 but not worth the upgrade if you have one.
  
  I agree with all the above OP, stay away from Crossfire/SLI, not worth the hassle, spend your money on one single fast card.
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  MBeeching1 year, 4 months ago #7Show comment toolsReply

  Fuming about the 7950 delay and there's no way i'm forking out for the 7970.
  Still quite pleased with my 5850 though.
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  baseley091 year, 4 months ago #8Show comment toolsReply

  Agree, I have a 5770 and this isn't worth upgrading to, the 5770 used to be the best entry card to play modern games at near full spec, but that card has had it's day so now this probably has the crown and represents good value @ £100, so hot from me.
  
  

  xela333

  renderman

  Just one of these can play Rage at 1920x1080 with everything ramped up to the max at decent frame rates, it's a real bargain.

  
  
  Depends on your CPU of course. Great card for the money, well spent over something like a 5770 but not worth the upgrade if you have one.
  
  I agree with all the above OP, stay away from Crossfire/SLI, not worth the hassle, spend your money on one single fast card.

  
  
  

  
  Edited By: baseley09 on Jan 05, 2012 11:19
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  David Gill1 year, 4 months ago1 Like #9Show comment toolsReply

  9600 GT SLI all the way! :p
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  leebyron1 year, 4 months ago #10Show comment toolsReply

  -Just started playing my first PC game since WoW, Star Wars - The Old Republic and am considering getting a new card to get better performance, although it's running fine on the low settings. Would this be a good choice for the money? I don't want to build a whole new machine.
  
  My current spec is a Core 2 Duo 2.8Ghz, 4GB RAM, Geforce 9400GT. This seems to be running the game fine on low settings but was looking to upgrade a bit.
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  baseley091 year, 4 months ago #11Show comment toolsReply

  Yes this would be quite a big upgrade over the 9400 GT, providing you have at a 400w psu or higher you should be fine.
  
  

  leebyron

  -Just started playing my first PC game since WoW, Star Wars - The Old Republic and am considering getting a new card to get better performance, although it's running fine on the low settings. Would this be a good choice for the money? I don't want to build a whole new machine.
  
  My current spec is a Core 2 Duo 2.8Ghz, 4GB RAM, Geforce 9400GT. This seems to be running the game fine on low settings but was looking to upgrade a bit.

  
  
  

  
  Edited By: baseley09 on Jan 05, 2012 11:40
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  amjidrahman1 year, 4 months ago #12Show comment toolsReply

  @xela333
  “I agree with all the above OP, stay away from Crossfire/SLI, not worth the hassle, spend your money on one single fast card.”
  
  Any suggestions on a single card that I could purchase at under £200 that would be better/more reliable than two of these in crossfire?
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  xela3331 year, 4 months ago #13Show comment toolsReply

  amjidrahman

  @xela333
  “I agree with all the above OP, stay away from Crossfire/SLI, not worth the hassle, spend your money on one single fast card.”
  
  Any suggestions on a single card that I could purchase at under £200 that would be better/more reliable than two of these in crossfire?

  
  
  A 6950 or if you can spare another £30, the 6970 : http://mocustoms.co.uk/store/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=78673
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  haznffc1 year, 4 months ago #14Show comment toolsReply

  How much better is this card than a ATi Radeon HD 5670 1GB?
  
  Response much appreciated! Ta!
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  komi1 year, 4 months ago #15Show comment toolsReply

  baseley09

  Yes this would be quite a big upgrade over the 9400 GT, providing you have at a 400w psu or higher you should be fine.
  
  

  leebyron

  -Just started playing my first PC game since WoW, Star Wars - The Old Republic and am considering getting a new card to get better performance, although it's running fine on the low settings. Would this be a good choice for the money? I don't want to build a whole new machine.
  
  My current spec is a Core 2 Duo 2.8Ghz, 4GB RAM, Geforce 9400GT. This seems to be running the game fine on low settings but was looking to upgrade a bit.

  
  
  

  
  
  Yes this would be a good upgrade but i think your cpu may bottleneck the games unless you overclock it
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  hmmmnice1111 year, 4 months ago #16Show comment toolsReply

  Nice, ordered 6 to upgrade office PC's, thanks
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  QuatrroDDD1 year, 4 months ago #17Show comment toolsReply

  as with as pc component upgrades make sure your power supply is up to it. Otherwise you run the run of destroying your pc
  

  
  Edited By: QuatrroDDD on Jan 05, 2012 12:24
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  therealjohnpeat1 year, 4 months ago #18Show comment toolsReply

  just got to find a way to hide them from her-in-doors!

  
  How about inside your PC? ;)
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  xenny1 year, 4 months ago2 Likes #19Show comment toolsReply

  hmmmnice111

  Nice, ordered 6 to upgrade office PC's, thanks

  
  
  What's the point of putting these in office PCs, except to bump up the company electricity bill?
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  Orville1 year, 4 months ago #20Show comment toolsReply

  Great performance for the price.

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