Upgrade - any recommendations ?

[dswanson]

Hi,

Looking to upgrade with an Overclockers bundle and a video card

Anybody give me a good steer on best choice from the following please ?

Bundle 1 http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showprodu ... 39&subcat=

Bundle 2 http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showprodu ... 39&subcat=

Nvidia 250GTX or pay the extra for a 260GTX

[Rick Piper]

Hi Degsy

Bundle 1 mate

FSX will be no faster with either video card mate (8800GTX) is optimum for when FSX was coded
but if you play other games the 260 will be best (just nothing to be gained in FSX

Regards
Rick

[tonymadge]

I agree whole heartedly with Rick on this. I have bundle 2 well with the 550 chip which is pretty level in performance with the 555. Its fantastic and can't say enough good words about it.
However the new Intel chip clocks faster and is a newer design and only a bit dearer... So if I was in the same position I would go for the Intel one.
If you go AMD you wont be disappointed though as it gobbled up FSX easy peasy.
GTX260 no chioce there at all, I have one a cracking card that like Rick says is more than enough for FS but superb for COD and other games.
So GO FOR IT you wont be sorry....
word of note...get a decent PSU to run this lot though
I opted for this, its modular so easy to fit and nice tidy cabling plus gives you two 12v lines for your GTX260
http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.a ... turer_id=0

[Fodda]

DON'T go with Overclockers is the only advice I'd give. If anything doesn't work, they'll fob you off and charge you money and you'll end up worse off with crap product. Do a Google search for overclockers customer service to see the thousands of hits that come back regarding their usual rip-off service. I learned the hard way and spent over £200 on a useless broken graphics card that they refuse to to do anything about.

Seriously, go elsewhere.

[tonymadge]

I know you had bad service, but so far I have never had any trouble with them I had a duff video card and they replaced it quickly. I guess its down to personal experience. I bet there are tons of folk who love the service they got from Mesh, unlike me I found them a lousy company whom I would vote for the party that elected ro bring back some form of evil punishment

[TSR2]

One of the chaps here had a problem with OC recently and seems to think they changed hands or management in the past year or so? I nearly always use scan.