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Folks, I'll shortly have an NVidia GTX 460 going spare (upgrading to the 760). Happy to give it away otherwise it will just collect dust somewhere but request that whoever wants it pay for postage and package. It's a couple of years old but has given stirling service and probably good for a while longer. Well looked after and not overclocked.

Regards,
Chris

I'd love it for a project build but not sure the mobo I want to put it on would cope. It's an old ASRock 4Core 1333-Viiv

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DaveB

Hmmmmm

That's the downside Dave - have to be careful that what looks like an extremely cheap upgrade doesn't end up costing a small fortune by having to upgrade the Mobo and PSU (and possibly case if in the small side).

Regards,
Chris

Indeed Mate

I'm in the unfortunate situation where I have the best OS on the worst hardware. I'm getting cheesed off with FSX OOM's and have been toying with the idea of throwing another 4gig onto the ASRock board (giving 8gb in total on Win7 64 Ultimate) and while I'm sure the extra memory would help, the old ATI 2900XT-512mb would be restrictive. CPU is a 2.66gig intel Quad which is strong enough to run FSX without all the sliders maxed out. I fear the GTX460 requires PCI-E 2.0 which as far as I'm aware, the ASRock doesn't support. My Asus P5Q Deluxe does.. it's currently running a GTX 560Ti but that system (the one I use regularly and sim on) is running WinXP SP3 32bit. Very frustrating

EDIT: Tomshardware reckons PCIE 2.0 cards are backward compatible with older PCIe mobo's though obviously.. the throughput would be less

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DaveB

It might be worth a go Dave. What PSU do you have? If it doesn't work out you can always pass it on?

Regards,
Chris

Got a 460 myself, which I'm considering upgrading, so I'll be interested to hear how much difference your new card makes.

I'll let you know Dave - reviews are good - Tom's Hardware has it at the top of the tree in its price bracket. Seems to hit the sweet spot between price and performance. The big reason I'm getting it is for P3D V2 as to be honest the 460 seems perfectly okay with most things I play - not that's a lot mind you but it works well with titles such as BF3.

Regards,
Chris

Chris..

In that pc, I've got a Corsair 650TX which I hope would be enough

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DaveB

I have a winner so I'll have to stop the millions of bids flooding in!

The 760 arrived today and despite instructions to leave it in the shed if not in, the package was left by the front door hidden in the bush. Good job this is the kind of place it is or some little scally somewhere would be asking themselves where does the CD go? And more crucially "what the hell is this....?". I don't have a shed BTW just in case anyone was wondering but I do have a box thing in the back garden but Amazon don't give you the option of "Box Thing" in the list of where to leave stuff if out.

Anyway the 760 comes in a very shiny box (as should be expected); I'll be fitting it on Saturday when I've got the time and will report back after that re performance over the 460. Subjective stuff only mind as I CBA to try to get real numbers!

Regards,
Chris