Nvidia GT280

I am after a good GT280 card for around £300.00 with 1 gig memory for good
gaming, of course my other hardware will be of top spec too so what do you
recomend please.

All the high-end nVidia cards (GTX280,260) are made by a contract
manufacturer (typically Flextronics or Celestica), then sold to the board
vendors like BFG, PNY, eVGA, Gainward, etc. to be repackaged. So they are
really all the same. The reference cooler is also quite good. Just pick one
with a good price and a good warranty. Don't bother with factory overclocks,
because a 40 MHz overclock on a 602 MHz part has a negligible impact on
real-world performance.

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"Timelord" <nobodyhere@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:Yz8hk.26552$gU4.25148@newsfe09.ams2...
>I am after a good GT280 card for around £300.00 with 1 gig memory for good
>gaming, of course my other hardware will be of top spec too so what do you
>recomend please.
>

In article <Yz8hk.26552$gU4.25148@newsfe09.ams2>,
nobodyhere@nospam.com says...
> I am after a good GT280 card for around £300.00 with 1 gig memory for good
> gaming, of course my other hardware will be of top spec too so what do you
> recomend please.
>
>
>

I recommend Googling for one with a warranty and a cooler you like.
After that they are pretty much all the same.

Bill

Timelord wrote:
> I am after a good GT280 card for around £300.00 with 1 gig memory for good
> gaming, of course my other hardware will be of top spec too so what do you
> recomend please.
>
>

The others posters have given you the proper advice: warranty and
cooling solutions are key elements and only hands on testing can
determine how effective and quiet the cooling solution is as reviews are
subjective and not always representative of what actually ends up in
your slot.

I'll add this, consider the game bundle provided. It might be of value
to you. Current GT280 bundling offers include:

1) XFX + Assassin's Creed
2) Palit + Tomb Raider Anniversary
3) MSI + The Witcher

Why isn't OC-ing valuable you might ask? As stock speeds increase from
generation to generation, the percentage increase that a fixed MHz speed
bump provides lessens. A 50Mhz on a stock 350Mhz core has greater end
result impact then that same 50Mhz increase on a 700MHz core.