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Re: Upgrade time, which GeForce...

#286004
From: Inglo
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 06:12
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EvilBill wrote:

>"Geri" <baldy @THISISASPAMBL0CK.blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:9dudf.6728$Lw5.3732@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
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>>"EvilBill" <quake2lives@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>news:3tn7shFtf1htU1@individual.net...
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>>>"Inglo" <ioo@??.¿¿¿> wrote in message
>>>news:EYndf.26066$6e1.17097@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com...
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>>>>On 11/12/2005 3:21 AM EvilBill brightened our day with:
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>>>>>I'm not sure you can get the GT for £130, but YMMV :)
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>>>>Yeah, I think the 6800 GTs would usually run up around £180-190.  I
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>have
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>>>>a vanilla 6800 which can be found for definitely less than £130 and
>>>>that's the card I'd recommend.  The card I have is available at
>>>>www.newegg.com for $179 (£100).
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>>>Well, we tend to pay pound for dollar over here despite the exchange
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>rate,
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>>>so GTs tend to be well over the £200 mark and a vanilla 6800 £150-£175.
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>:(
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>>>I only have a 6200 and I was looking around to see if I could get my
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>hands
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>>>on a reasonably priced 6600 but sadly, next to nothing under £100.
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>>EB If you buy a new card how much will you sell your 6200 to me for?
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>You'd be much better off with a new 6600... the 6200s are a bit of a duff
>deal really. Some of them even use system RAM to supplement their own, so
>I've heard.
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Y'all should save your money and go buy an XBox360 next week.

-- 
Steve -|Inglo/LymanAlpha|-
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