PanzerFodder 0 Posted May 31, 2012 Report Share Posted May 31, 2012 I told you all along it was your PSU! . If you have 200 quid to play with have a look at some of the GTX560Ti cards with 448 cores. I just got this one myself, last weekend http://www.scan.co.uk/products/1280mb-asus-gtx-560-ti-directcu-ii-40nm-3800mhz-gddr5-gpu-732mhz-shader-1464mhz-448-cores-2x-dl-dvi- Must say that this ASUS card has impressed me a lot, and I was a huge EVGA fan before I found this lovely little thing on sale at my local PC Store. (thats a joke, I was gobsmacked by the size of the thing when I opened the box ) The biggest down side with this ASUS card is that it takes up 3 slots, yep its a fat little bugger so not a good choice if you want to do SLI. By what I have read on the forums these new GTX560Ti 448 boards are really 570's with a few cores deactivated . (find the ASUS GTX570 and compare the two, every detail is the same except the number of cores, it even has 1280mb of DDR5 on board as well ). I should also mention that I have indeed seen some better performance in FSX, and have been able to crank up the AS with no loss to my FPS, although I think that the $250 I payed was a high price for such a small performance gain over the GTX260 superclocked that I had before. Review of some 560 448 core cards http://www.hardwareh...troduction.html they seem pretty much on par with your old ATI6950 TBO, just a couple of frames per sec faster in most cases, so I would think that getting a standard 560Ti would be a bit of a step backwards for you m8y, and with only half the ram . Cheer's...Graham... PS: Those new GTX670 cards are real killers if you can afford one, I saw a review were one of those things made a 580 look silly, or on the other hand you could always stuggle on with your old 260 for a bit. while we wait for the GTX660 to arrive and see what that one has to offer . Link to post Share on other sites
Sabre 28 Posted May 31, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 31, 2012 Have you asked Overclockers what they would reccomend? Also I know it will mean putting more money to it but have you looked at this: http://www.scan.co.u...dvi-displayport At least its futured by allowing you to run 6 screens James Thanks James, it is tempting but I'm angling towards NVidia again at the minute plus it's a little more money hmmm.... not sure If you have 200 quid to play with have a look at some of the GTX560Ti cards with 448 cores. Cheer's...Graham... Thanks Graham I've had a look and found these two. I like the Gigabyte one (it matches my motherboard ) ASUS (think this might be yours?) http://www.scan.co.u...ores-2x-dl-dvi- GIGABYTE http://www.overclock...914&subcat=1854 Link to post Share on other sites
PanzerFodder 0 Posted May 31, 2012 Report Share Posted May 31, 2012 Have you asked Overclockers what they would reccomend? Also I know it will mean putting more money to it but have you looked at this: http://www.scan.co.u...dvi-displayport At least its futured by allowing you to run 6 screens James Thanks James, it is tempting but I'm angling towards NVidia again at the minute plus it's a little more money hmmm.... not sure If you have 200 quid to play with have a look at some of the GTX560Ti cards with 448 cores. Cheer's...Graham... Thanks Graham I've had a look and found these two. I like the Gigabyte one (it matches my motherboard ) ASUS (think this might be yours?) http://www.scan.co.u...ores-2x-dl-dvi- GIGABYTE http://www.overclock...914&subcat=1854 Yes it is mine, cant you see the links I put in my post then??? Cheer's...Graham... Link to post Share on other sites
Sabre 28 Posted May 31, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 31, 2012 Yes it is mine, cant you see the links I put in my post then??? Cheer's...Graham... Yes I can see the links Well done mate you passed the test, go take a sweety from the jar In the end I decided I've been out of the virtual skies too long and I went for something completely different. I'm way too impatient but these PC troubles have completely done my head in. I went for an EVGA GeForce GTX 560Ti 448 Edition card in the end Link to post Share on other sites
PanzerFodder 0 Posted May 31, 2012 Report Share Posted May 31, 2012 Superb choice of card, that one was #1 on my shopping list (just that they all sold out in a couple of hours when they were on sale at my PC store ) Now go back and buy another one, so you can do SLI as that setup will humble even the 580 superclocked cards, and more than likely give the new 670 a kick in the nuts as well . Cheer's...Graham... BTW: make sure that you register it at the EVGA site, their customer support in the best on the planet IMO, also then you will be in the upgrade program, and if the 660 cards are killers when they appear on the market you can upgrade to one of them on the cheap . install the EVGA precision program that should be on your install disk, it will make taking FSX screen shots a breeze, I used mine all the time untill I got the Asus card . Link to post Share on other sites
jaydor 345 Posted May 31, 2012 Report Share Posted May 31, 2012 I see it has Display Connectors: 2x Dual-Link DVI-I & 1x Mini-HDMI 1.4a (Includes HDMI & VGA Adapters) Does that mean you can use 3 displays? Link to post Share on other sites
PanzerFodder 0 Posted May 31, 2012 Report Share Posted May 31, 2012 I see it has Display Connectors: 2x Dual-Link DVI-I & 1x Mini-HDMI 1.4a (Includes HDMI & VGA Adapters) Does that mean you can use 3 displays? Well, If it does! how the heck is he going to explain to his wife that he needs to buy another two monitors as well Cheer's...Graham... Link to post Share on other sites
M31 0 Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 I told you all along it was your PSU! . His GPU, surely? Just been reading the thread and I sort of new it was a GPU/Graphic card flaking out, the fact the case was on its side and still worked for a while is purely incidental I reckon. These problems are the worst to sort out, intermittent problems I mean, sometimes its better for something to just go bang rather than send a dying component back only for them to just plug it in for 5 minutes and say, hey it works fine here ... I've had this before, I feel your pain. Looks like your back on track now though and the video cards you linked to look good, if you might be upgrading to a new monitor in the near future maybe get one with more vram than 1GB, from what I'm hearing even 20" + monitors are going to have very high resolution shortly, the days of 1920 x 1200 or 1920 x 1080 are numbered just as 640 x 480 was, I reckon. If you like FSX/P3D go for Nvidia though, I'm no fan boy and own Nvidia and ATI cards just now, but FSX was optimised for Nvidia from the start. Link to post Share on other sites
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