New card, Laptop BSOD, Firefox failing on me

[Eagle101]

Hello guys,

Well i novatech has emailed me with their special offers and this one grabbed my eye:

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/s...tml?NOV-GTX260

Its a good deal 130 quid only as well as if i add a Hiper 580W PSu it should work right?


I created a thread awhile back asking for a gpu/psu combo and thought i might change for financial reasons and get a lower priced gpu (hence the one above) and get a higher quality psu.


Second i seem to be having some firefox random crashes i dont know why my version is 3.8.

As well as my laptop gives me random BSODS at times second time happened today, first time was a week ago.

[Busby, Paul (Bicci)]

Re: New card, Laptop BSOD, Firefox failing on me

Didnt we suggest a OCZ PSU? i would recomend that over the hyper tbh.

Thats the 192 stream processor version of the 260 so if the 4870 is a few quid more i would say go for the 4870.

[Eagle101]

Re: New card, Laptop BSOD, Firefox failing on me

shoot i new the specs were not right lol, yeah the ocz okay. Um i got a E7300 in my uni pc will that matter at all towards the 4870/260?

[=98=]

Re: New card, Laptop BSOD, Firefox failing on me

Doubt it, but I would give the E7300 a small OC to alleviate any small bottleneck issues.

[Eagle101]

Re: New card, Laptop BSOD, Firefox failing on me

Okay i thought again and money comes into serious thought i am more of looking into keeping my uni rig breathing for the next 2 years until i bring it back with me to Bahrain when i get my BA degree.

So i thought of this:

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/s...e.html?XFX-250

now i know it is a re branded 98GTX but its good right? i wanted to buy a sub 200 pound card before but thought again and would like a higher quality PSU, so i have been thinking in the areas of the gpu being a GTS/X series the HDradeon is 150 quid i want slightly below that, now if i get that 260 with the 192 SP will it be really bad? as opposed to getting the 97GBP GTS250?

[=98=]

Re: New card, Laptop BSOD, Firefox failing on me

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/s....html?GIG-4850

A lot better than the 9800 and only £5 more or something.

Alternatively, the 4830's are very, very good performance/price.

[Eagle101]

Re: New card, Laptop BSOD, Firefox failing on me

Yeah that could work, what about this?

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/s....html?XFX-4830

What does it compare to?

[=98=]

Re: New card, Laptop BSOD, Firefox failing on me

Well, this is a GRID performance graph (the only game I can relate to). Seems to do well:



It beats the 9800gt outright. In some games falls behind the 9800GTX+ yet in others it pulls ahead. For £75, I don't think you can go wrong, especially with XFX!

What games are you playing btw?

[Eagle101]

Re: New card, Laptop BSOD, Firefox failing on me

Okay had a run through Novatech's PSU dept. and found these PSUs under 70 pounds which one would eb the best pic. This is for my Uni rig which is basically a

P31 MSI Neo board

E7300procs stock

2GB ram and XP pro SP3

Here they are what do you guys think? (Biscuit mate i know we decided on the OCZ but now since my budget is slightly more flexible with PSU pricing i decided to add a bigger list)


http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/s....html?OCZ-S500

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/s...html?HYP-4M580

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/s....html?OCZ-S600

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/s....html?OCZ-F550

Oh Games i am playing:


Age of Empires 3 (and 2 but hey that works with Intel gfx lol)

All Company of Heroes

warcraft 3

HL2 Episode 2

TF2

L4D

GRiD/DiRT

HAWX

OFP2 (in teh future)

Mafia 2 (in teh future)

Other than that buddy i cant think of any lol

[=98=]

Re: New card, Laptop BSOD, Firefox failing on me

Wow, PSU's have gone up in price lately :/

I would have said Corsair, but even the HX520W is near £90. Out of those, I would say the StealthXStream 500W.

That would power everything fine.

[Eagle101]

Re: New card, Laptop BSOD, Firefox failing on me

Okay so thats the first one correct? wow this upgrade is not as expensive as i thought lol, once again i thank TGN and its awesome members for their help, thanks guys

[=98=]

Re: New card, Laptop BSOD, Firefox failing on me

Yes, the first one is all good.

<< Don't forget the Rep+ button

[Busby, Paul (Bicci)]

Re: New card, Laptop BSOD, Firefox failing on me

IMO if you want to keep it running for 2 years then dont upgrade now, keep what you have for another 8-9 months save up some cash then look to upgrade to a higher end card when DX11 starts to slip into the market.

[Eagle101]

Re: New card, Laptop BSOD, Firefox failing on me

"You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Alex98uk again."

Dont know what that meant lol


IS the 500w going to cover a GTX260 too? i am not going buy one (am set on the 4830) just for future references.


EDIT: Biscuit, that move is for my home PC the one listed in My System is my current rig setup, i intend to move as u iirc said to an I5 (instead of an I7) and a new mobo and gfx.

[Busby, Paul (Bicci)]

Re: New card, Laptop BSOD, Firefox failing on me

Fair enough. 500w would probably be fine for a 260 assuming you dont have a huge array of hard drives and USB powered devices but if its anything like my PSU then the load it takes will cause the fan to make a bit of noise, especially when gaming. Doesnt botherme too much but i do plan to grab an enermax as soon as i can afford it.

You could always rep me then go back to alex