ans Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 My 8800GTS died a few weeks ago. Something went pop and I have a corrupted BIOS display, leading into a wonderfully wrecked Windows display. I got pretty good value out of it really, it was bleeding edge at the time (years ago heh). Anyone got anything lying around following an upgrade of a similar spec? The 8800 did everything I needed it to really so I'd rather not lash out hundreds on some uber card right now. Anything similar considered! Drop me a PM. Ta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nathan wind Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 My 8800GTS died a few weeks ago. Something went pop and I have a corrupted BIOS display, leading into a wonderfully wrecked Windows display. I got pretty good value out of it really, it was bleeding edge at the time (years ago heh). Anyone got anything lying around following an upgrade of a similar spec? The 8800 did everything I needed it to really so I'd rather not lash out hundreds on some uber card right now. Anything similar considered! Drop me a PM. Ta Waltons had a couple of Radeon HD5770's in, when I was in there last week. They're around the £100 (which is about the right price, surprisingly) mark and will play any current games on decent settings, if that's what you're after. Must be something in the air atm - my PSU starting banging and sparking last night! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatdamaged Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 I may be upgrading my HTPC card Ans, so if you could use a Radeon 5570 then it's yours for £40 It's a silent version (fanless) Up to you anyway! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ans Posted August 10, 2011 Author Share Posted August 10, 2011 Waltons had a couple of Radeon HD5770's in, when I was in there last week. They're around the £100 (which is about the right price, surprisingly) mark and will play any current games on decent settings, if that's what you're after. Must be something in the air atm - my PSU starting banging and sparking last night! I picked one of these up just now. Thanks for the tip. It's the first time I've bought anything from Waltons in a long while and if they manage to keep their pricing competitive like this, they wont be a "last resort" for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twonky Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 Waltons had a couple of Radeon HD5770's in, when I was in there last week. They're around the £100 (which is about the right price, surprisingly) mark and will play any current games on decent settings, if that's what you're after. Must be something in the air atm - my PSU starting banging and sparking last night! I picked one of these up just now. Thanks for the tip. It's the first time I've bought anything from Waltons in a long while and if they manage to keep their pricing competitive like this, they wont be a "last resort" for me. Waltons are always worth a look IMO, their prices are still, ahem, 'variable', but they're pretty much on the money a surprising amount of time, far more so than used to be the case. I got a £600 compact PC from them a couple of months ago, cheapest I could find exactly the same model online was £584 and nowhere was doing free delivery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nathan wind Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 Aye, I've had a PSU and monitor off them in the past month, both of which have only been slightly over the odds - £20 on the monitor and a tenner on the power supply. I'm only too happy to pay such a small extra amount in order to keep business local. If only more shops were like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ans Posted August 10, 2011 Author Share Posted August 10, 2011 Yep, agreed. In fact, I actually struggled to find a cheaper price online for this card I just got. Performs lovely too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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