BFG 8800 GTS and HIPER 580W PSU

Chris Sykes · Post by **Chris Sykes** » 11 Nov 2006, 15:07

Hi guys + gals. Im wanting opinions on these following products....

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Yes they are both from PC world, but thats my point, i have the PC on their PC performance cover and will have the products added to that after brought.
Now ill know ppl will say go here there or everywhere but ive had on order a 7900 GTX from Dabs.com for a week and the curriers have lost said GFX card!!! Now i got more information out of the curriers than Dabs....

Ive now reconsidered and have decided im wanting the 8800 GTS.

So please can ppl give me problems and good points of both the PSU and GFX card...

Thank you in advance

Chris

Charlie Bravo · Post by **Charlie Bravo** » 11 Nov 2006, 15:21

First off, Dabs have got crap customer service but the courier losing the parcel is not down to Dabs.

PC Worlds prices for the above items are pretty good although I don't rate Hiper PSU's much.
People over on OcUK have had a few issues with them and so have I but it's the best PCW have got :roll:

Also, if you intend on having those items delivered, don't expect them to be in perfect condition when they get to you.
I purchased a graphics card from PCW last year and it arrived in a cardboard box twice the size of the product with no padding. I complained but they didnt care.

Post by **Rick Piper** » 11 Nov 2006, 15:32

whoops!

I have a Hyper 580w PSU.

It's been brilliant for the 10 months i had it and far better than the Antec one that came with my case (fan packed up in that PSU).

Regards
Rick

Chris Sykes · Post by **Chris Sykes** » 11 Nov 2006, 16:03

Thanks so far guys, well i got my FSX from them...... no probs there.... My pc is this one

http://support.pcworld.co.uk/layout.asp ... 959a1057a}

As you can tell. 2x 128mb 6600 GT's isnt the best sys in the world... Was going for the 7900 GTX then nvidia brought the 8800 series..

Yes i know its not dabs fault but then again they couldnt find out what was holding my package up, took me 5 mins.... im cancling on monday anyway.

Any one else got any info etc???

Rick what GFX card and specs are you running off that PSU???

Chris

Charlie Bravo · Post by **Charlie Bravo** » 11 Nov 2006, 16:07

That card will be wasted with that CPU.

jonesey2k · Post by **jonesey2k** » 11 Nov 2006, 16:13

I dont know, Free AA and AF

My Cpu is a 2mb cache X2 that is pretending to be an FX60

While running FS, each core is running at less then 50%

Post by **Rick Piper** » 11 Nov 2006, 17:24

Hi Chris

Rick what GFX card and specs are you running off that PSU???

Just a tweaked Sapphire Radeon X800 pro (tweaked to XT specs).

works great for me.

i will not buy a new MB/CPU?PciExpress card till Vista is out and new DX10 cards are tested as i think ati will be better than NV as i prefer the way ATI works with FS.

Plus
I used to play the cutting edge surfer game but why bother as in 6 months it will cost 60% of release day and i'm not dying that fast

Regards
Rick

ASUS P4P800E-Deluxe
3.0E P4
2 gb Corsair DDR400
Ati Radeon X800 Pro.
over 1.7 tb spread over 6 SATA's & 2 IDE drives.

Chris Sykes · Post by **Chris Sykes** » 11 Nov 2006, 17:51

Charlie Bravo wrote:That card will be wasted with that CPU.

Gotta ask why would it??? I cant afford another new computer, this ones not even a year old yet and im upgrading it already..... Next on list is the RAM then maybe the CPU... not got a clew on whats best etc

Thanks rick for telling me what you have...

Charlie Bravo · Post by **Charlie Bravo** » 12 Nov 2006, 10:45

Chris Sykes wrote:
Charlie Bravo wrote:That card will be wasted with that CPU.

Gotta ask why would it??? I cant afford another new computer, this ones not even a year old yet and im upgrading it already..... Next on list is the RAM then maybe the CPU... not got a clew on whats best etc

Thanks rick for telling me what you have...

Because the CPU will be the bottleneck in the system and therefore you won't be getting the most from the graphics card.

Chris Sykes · Post by **Chris Sykes** » 12 Nov 2006, 11:53

hmmm well ill have to stick with it atm, thanks for the advise