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  1. Chrisavz

    New Graphics card to replace my old but powerful 5870! is it worth it?

    I've spent thousands on here over the years to be honest, and i'll admit it is something that does eat at me a bit when a lot of other sites do off free shipping but i do like their customer care and RMA procedures in the past whenever I have had issues! I'll scrape the 75p together out my...
  2. Chrisavz

    New Graphics card to replace my old but powerful 5870! is it worth it?

    Order Placed Product Name Price Qty Line Total XFX Radeon R9 280X DD Black Edition 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (R9-280X-TDBD) £158.29 1 £158.29 Order Cost Summary Sub Total: £158.29 Shipping: £9.00 Total Vat: £33.46 Total inc Vat: £200.75 £200 budget utilized! :D
  3. Chrisavz

    New Graphics card to replace my old but powerful 5870! is it worth it?

    Thanks CEUOTC, appreciate the help!
  4. Chrisavz

    New Graphics card to replace my old but powerful 5870! is it worth it?

    Also any issue with going with this? http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-220-XF&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1842 I'm an XFX fanboy, mainly had their cards and always been great buys!
  5. Chrisavz

    New Graphics card to replace my old but powerful 5870! is it worth it?

    I've noticed the 280 has 11.2 directx support as opposed to the 285 which has 12, is this worth pointing out or not worth a carrott in relation to games at this moment?
  6. Chrisavz

    New Graphics card to replace my old but powerful 5870! is it worth it?

    Looking at it now, seems impressive, reviews seem very good think this baby might be the one! I'll do a bit more digging though first thanks a lot!
  7. Chrisavz

    New Graphics card to replace my old but powerful 5870! is it worth it?

    Apologies, my full specs are as follows: Intel Core i5 4670K Quad Core Retail CPU (Socket 1150, 3.40GHz, 6MB, Haswell,) - overclocked to 4ghz XFX ATI HD 5870 1024 GDDR5 G.Skill 8GBXL Main Memory DDR3 8 GB PC1600 CL9 WD 1 TB 3.5-inch Internal Hard Drive - Black MSI Z97 Gaming 3 Intel...
  8. Chrisavz

    New Graphics card to replace my old but powerful 5870! is it worth it?

    Hi! I currently have a 1GB HD 5870, which is very powerful yet a bit old and has started to show it's age a bit on more recent games.. I'm looking at upgrading with a budget of £200 but whenever i look and compare the card i currently have to newer card's I don't really see much of an...
  9. Chrisavz

    WD Caviar black - partitioning for gaming advice

    Being honest i only use it just for games, i have an external hard drive for films etc so i might be able to to keep it ad a whole hd.. I have a lot of steam games and then games not on steam, wolfenstein for example is 43gb.. I had a budget and needed lots of space and a fast drive, so i chose...
  10. Chrisavz

    WD Caviar black - partitioning for gaming advice

    Hi, i have finally got round to buying the 1TB caviar black.. Could do with some advice please! I currently have a raptor 150(which is loud and really not that quick?, it is 5 years old tho!) a 200gb wd backup drive for storage and ive got the caviar coming because 150gb is nowhere near...
  11. Chrisavz

    Some assistance please, it's been a while.. Gaming PC Upgrade

    Thanks Dan, appreciate the advice. I will have a look into that card now and compare it with what I've got.. I can tell i need more memory the new Wolfenstein textures are massive and have been slowing me down quite a bit..
  12. Chrisavz

    Some assistance please, it's been a while.. Gaming PC Upgrade

    Good afternoon, I'm looking for a gaming rig that will play the most recent games for around £400, I'm hoping I will only require mobo memory and cpu, but we will see.. It's the inevitable moment that's been coming round for quite some time. new gaming requirements are minimum 6GB ram etc and...
  13. Chrisavz

    Lag in games at start of a map load - randomly

    Ataro it's on the raptor and defragged weekely. Shadz thanks for clearing that up for me, i do that aswell so guess ill just keep doing it :)
  14. Chrisavz

    Lag in games at start of a map load - randomly

    strange though i just wondered if this is normal, and does it happen with others?
  15. Chrisavz

    Lag in games at start of a map load - randomly

    Hello, wonder if you guys can spare some ideas on what could be causing this.. When playing black ops and a map first loads its laggy for around ten seconds, as if something is slowing my pc down/needs to catch up, also i can lag for a second or so randomly, or when a lot is happening, which...
  16. Chrisavz

    Weird graphics corruption, how does it move with windows?

    Sounds like your cards dead mate, i had this with my 980gx2 and it was fried..got a 5870 and am amazed with it :)
  17. Chrisavz

    Weird graphics corruption, how does it move with windows?

    and a screenshot will display exactly what your screen looks like, just what your looking at
  18. Chrisavz

    Weird graphics corruption, how does it move with windows?

    Fancy showing us the picture?
  19. Chrisavz

    Much upgrade from E4300 to E8400???

    Thanks ill try them later tonight :)
  20. Chrisavz

    Much upgrade from E4300 to E8400???

    555BUK Fancy writing the setings you are using to get it at 4ghz and what memory are you using? if i go above 3.8ghz i get problems :( what voltages are you using, and for what?
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