well there goes another £902

[SheepCow]

Getting a full refund for the card and getting a 7970 or 7950 instead, havent decided which yet, will prob get it from ebuyer or scan.

Oh right I didn't read enough of the thread

 

[BloodOmen]

Oh right I didn't read enough of the thread

Well the GTX 580 died after 30 minutes of use... lol.

 

[DjSatansfury]

I wouldnt order it from Scam lol

 

[BloodOmen]

lol, only ever used scan once they didnt seem so bad.

 

[Litmus]

don't use ocuk?

 

[Raven]

Funnily enough a graphics card I bought from OCUK only lasted a month!

Ebuyer all the way, yeah it may be a few quid more expensive sometimes but the service is quality.

 

[Litmus]

pot luck if something blows up really. ocuk do nothing more than ebuyer or anyone else...

all they do is sell it.

 

[BloodOmen]

Have to agree with Litmus like, OCUK just sell shit.. the customer support on the other hand is really bad. Guy I talked to about returning the GTX 580 was a proper snotty little cunt.

 

[caLLous]

OCUK just sell shit..

The fuck are you basing that sweeping statement on? I've ordered shitloads from OcUK and never had a problem with any of it. And never had a problem with the support, but I always use their forum system rather than phoning them.

 

[BloodOmen]

The fuck are you basing that sweeping statement on? I've ordered shitloads from OcUK and never had a problem with any of it. And never had a problem with the support, but I always use their forum system rather than phoning them.

You read it wrong, by sell shit it wasnt meant literal it was meant as "They just sell stuff" as in they dont make the stuff they get from Asus or from Gigabyte, they just sell it.

 

[Bahumat]

I *think* you may have misinterpreted his definition of stuff? To me, he's using it in the same context as *stuff*, not in a *really crappy hardware* sense of the word.

 

[Bahumat]

Bah, he beat me too it

 

[caLLous]

OK, my bad. Thought you meant dodgy hardware or something.

I've got nothing but good things to say about OcUK tbh.

 

[BloodOmen]

No, didnt mean that everything they sold was shit because the fact of the matter is they arent directly responsible for the state stuff arrives in, its the manufacturers. Any website could sell cards that die in 30 minutes, just means it was a bad one of a batch I guess.

The support as said is fucking shit tho (phone support) the guy I talked to sounded like he'd just left school/was just starting college, proper stuck up snotty little shit, kept raising his voice everytime I was asking something (like he was really annoyed) just because he had to do abit of work to find something out.

 

[Jeros]

Sooooooooooo......AMD vs Intel then?

Its been years since I built a machine, tis all greek now.

 

[BloodOmen]

No idea tbh, I just wanted to get away from AMD in general I doubt you'd notice a difference tho gaming wise with equal cpu's, no games out atm that are really CPU taxing tbh.

 

[Raven]

AMD are miles behind. Fairly sure I read that they were throwing in the processor towel pretty soon and concentrating on GPUs

 

[Jeros]

AMD are miles behind. Fairly sure I read that they were throwing in the processor towel pretty soon and concentrating on GPUs

 

[Raven]

You know what I meant...

 

[BloodOmen]

Ah well there you go then

 

[BloodOmen]

7970 is ace, just stuck it in about an hour ago, been playing BF3 on Ultra for 30-40 mins now and temp hasnt gone above 61c under load so that gtx 580 must have been well fucked to go right upto 80-90 almost.

http://www.ebuyer.com/344636-powerc...i-displayport-pci-e-graphics-ax7970-3gbd5-2dh

Thats the one I got