~Darkseeker~
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Hi all,
firstly sorry about the thread spam, have neglected my PC for a while and am now doing many things to it at once.
I'm not up to date on what graphics cards are good these days, last time I knew much about GPUs the GTX 560 Ti was the bee's knees.
I've got a GTX 570 at the moment (1280MB Gainward Phantom) - I want to update it a bit but the rest of my PC is a bit aged as well (full info in the sig)
What graphics cards could I buy that will provide a decent upgrade, but also:-
- are PCIe 2.0 compatible (I see many are 3.0 now)
- are pretty quiet (It's a small room...)
- isn't going to be throttled by my aged sandy bridge i5 2500k and 8GB dual channel memory (1866MHz rated)
- doesn't cost the earth!
I realize this is an oddly specific but yet also not at all specific list of requirements throw some names at me if you can think of any. cheers!
firstly sorry about the thread spam, have neglected my PC for a while and am now doing many things to it at once.
I'm not up to date on what graphics cards are good these days, last time I knew much about GPUs the GTX 560 Ti was the bee's knees.
I've got a GTX 570 at the moment (1280MB Gainward Phantom) - I want to update it a bit but the rest of my PC is a bit aged as well (full info in the sig)
What graphics cards could I buy that will provide a decent upgrade, but also:-
- are PCIe 2.0 compatible (I see many are 3.0 now)
- are pretty quiet (It's a small room...)
- isn't going to be throttled by my aged sandy bridge i5 2500k and 8GB dual channel memory (1866MHz rated)
- doesn't cost the earth!
I realize this is an oddly specific but yet also not at all specific list of requirements throw some names at me if you can think of any. cheers!