New GFX Card for Gazdude

[Gazdude 0]

So I got home from work on wednesday and decided to catch up on some TV through the tinterweb. After about 30 minutes of watching I went to grab my super sized Red Bull and kind of knocked it over. It ran down my desk, so I grabbed a towel to soak it up with and thought oh well thats that. About 2 or 3 minutes later my screen went black. Thats when I thought, oh ****, I noticed its leaked down the back of my desk. On further inspection it seems the carbonated tourine concoction has dripped into the 200mm fan which dispursed it (rather like a garden sprinkler) all over the inside of my PC case. So I stripped down my PC and got out the PCB cleaner. I spent about 3 hours dismantling the whole thing and cleaning each peice; the motherboard, sound card, gfx card etc and put it all back together. It looked like everything was ok. So at this point I needed a real drink. Got in from the pub around 12am decided I'll check my emails and I pressed the power button on my PC and a ball of flames shot out of the side panel. As you can imagine, I was standing there a little confused. So i thought, screw this right now I'll go to sleep. It wasnt until the morning I realised that my £4k+ PC has just errupted in flames, I better check what's salvagable. Luckily it was just 1 component, one of the cheaper parts, my BFG GTX 285 gfx card. So after work today I picked up a cheap GTS 250 off the stock shelf to tide me over until I get a new one.

 

Any suggestions would be nice, but i'm personally thinking about the Sapphire MATRIX HD5870 2GB.

[Nmenth 290]

Any suggestions would be nice

Stop drinking Red Bull.

[Malevolence 6]

Budget for new parts? Do you need PhysX for gaming and applications?

[Luk3us 63]

Any suggestions would be nice,

 

Don't use your computer after visiting the pub. No one likes online drunks.

[Doctor Destiny 41]

Any suggestions would be nice

Move your ****ing case!

[Gazdude 0]

Budget for new parts? Do you need PhysX for gaming and applications?

 

No budget restrictions (i'm massively overpaid for my age). I dont want a dual GPU card because of the heat and driver instability. I'm looking for a rock solid all round performer. I dont care about physx and cuda, you cant really run them off a 1 gpu card at full detail anyway, without cutting your frames in half that is. I have a Seasonic M12D Power Supply 850w, you can't really get a better quality 850w gaming PSU.

[Gazdude 0]

Don't use your computer after visiting the pub. No one likes online drunks.

 

Oh come on, there's nothing like the powerful insight of an online drunk. Beer + Keyboard + Forum full of strangers who can't come round and kick your ass = Thought provoking, if not a little controversial, discussion. To be honest most people online talk like they're drunk anyway. "ned hlp wt gens 2v2 pll0x, any1??? gt cw tnite ned sum1 gd 2hlp. nO nUBZ!!1 ty gg" I mean wtf?

[Doctor Destiny 41]

No budget restrictions (i'm massively overpaid for my age). I dont want a dual GPU card because of the heat and driver instability. I'm looking for a rock solid all round performer. I dont care about physx and cuda, you cant really run them off a 1 gpu card at full detail anyway, without cutting your frames in half that is. I have a Seasonic M12D Power Supply 850w, you can't really get a better quality 850w gaming PSU.

I intend to SLI the MSI TwinFrozr GTX260 in my next PC. Dunno if that will be what you want, but reviews for it are highly positive.

[Gazdude 0]

How are you gonna cool those monsters? At the moment I don't want to water cool because I hate the thought of maintaining the system and I dont want to constantly keep altering fan speeds because I'm lazy. I just want to sit back turn it on and play a few hours without worrying about the thing slowing baking itself. SLI or CFire is tempting though.

[recover 2]

I got an ATI HD4850 modded with Arctic Accelero S1 passive cooling. It's really nice to have it passively cooled.

But beware, replacing the GPU cooler was the hardest thing I have ever done, so it's not for the faint of heart.

[Malevolence 6]

This thread is pretty dull without photos. More photos please.

[Doctor Destiny 41]

How are you gonna cool those monsters? At the moment I don't want to water cool because I hate the thought of maintaining the system and I dont want to constantly keep altering fan speeds because I'm lazy. I just want to sit back turn it on and play a few hours without worrying about the thing slowing baking itself. SLI or CFire is tempting though.

The Twin Frozr already comes with two fans for cooling on each one, and they're not quite stock. The GPU fans and case fans naturally. It's not hard to cool these cards.

[Luk3us 63]

How are you gonna cool those monsters? At the moment I don't want to water cool because I hate the thought of maintaining the system and I dont want to constantly keep altering fan speeds because I'm lazy. I just want to sit back turn it on and play a few hours without worrying about the thing slowing baking itself. SLI or CFire is tempting though.

 

[Gazdude 0]

 

Nice, though I've always wanted to do this->

 

Deep Fat Fryer PC!

 

 

Still haven't been able to talk my boss into letting me build one though..

Edited June 5, 2010 by Gazdude

[Malevolence 6]

Luk3us, that pic you have there, is meant for the Fermi cards setup.

[Gazdude 0]

Think I'll pick up one of these on monday.

 

Vapor X Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 2GB

[Malevolence 6]

Think I'll pick up one of these on monday.

 

Vapor X Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 2GB

 

Great choice of card!