9800GTX For Sale

[Masaq]

Assuming all goes well with my delivery tomorrow, I should have a GeForce 9800GTX for sale.

Purchased May last year as an interim solution to having a grossly underpower graphics card for playing next-gen games on (a 7-series). Now I've qualified and I've upgraded other bits of my rig and can actually afford to buy something at the higher end of the market again. As such, the 9800 will be up for grabs assuming that there are no issues with the new card (a week "bedding-in" the new before I post the old, in other words).

So yeah, an 17-month old graphics card, it's the 9800GTX not the GTX+ so it's only got 512Mb of onboard memory. Easily handles BF2/PR on full high, and manages most next-gen style games on medium-to-high settings with an acceptable framerate.

Either way, they're available for purchase new for £120 and this one's nearly a year and a half old and has obviously been fairly heavily used, so make a reasonable offer if you're interested. Postage costs (especially if you want recorded delivery because of the strike etc) to be covered by purchaser.


It works fine, no artifacts or problems at all. Just in an upgrade spree at the minute :)


Mas

[HybridX]

what new card are you getting?

[Masaq]

5850. Same cable requirements so no need to upgrade the PSU. DX11 and eyefinity support, and matches the GTX285 in terms of horsepower.

I'll freely admit I'm a graphics whore and the 9800GTX just doesn't give enough oomph (for me) to play ArmA2 /RoF at the quality and framerates I want; it's currently the bottleneck in my system by a fairly long margin.

For someone who's maybe running on an 8600 (or earlier) card though, it'd make a decent stop-gap, as when I say "reasonable" I mean "well under £100" :)

[thedoombringer0]

im tempted mas but i would have to figure out if i can get it would run in my system.

[Masaq]

It requires 2x6pin connectors and effectively consumes 2 expansion slots, doom. It's pretty chunky but no more mahoooosive than most other graphics cards thesedays (aside from HTPC-type solutions).

[thedoombringer0]

It requires 2x6pin connectors and effectively consumes 2 expansion slots

you see the problem is this means nothing to me =/

[Masaq]

I bet you're gunna be a car driver who doesn't know where to put oil in the engine, too ;)


Get me details of your PC. Any details you can, and I'll let you know if your PC will support it. I assume you're on XP or Vista, yes? :p In which case drivers aren't an issue, so much as your hardware.

Use a program called: CPU-Z (Google for it) to tell you what your motherboard make and model number are, for a start lol

[HybridX]

ahh 5850 a nice bang for buck, Ill be holding out to see what the 5870x2 prices at. If its reasonable i might save for that if not ill get a 5870 single gpu.

Im getting excited now 30 days until i press the order button on a new rig

In reponse to doom it needs 2 6pin power cables from your psu to plug into the graphics card and the card itself takes up 2 slots of space on the mobo and the I/O pci-e slots at the back of your computer

[thedoombringer0]

I used that program mas heres what it said.

motherboard is a Asus P5K SE

If its any help my current card is a Geforce 8600 GT

[Cheesygoodness]

Well look at that. Masy remembered a program I forgot about. Hell if I'd have remembered CPU-Z it would have saved a lot of computer chitchat confusion before.

http://reviews.cnet.com/motherboards/asus-p5k-se-motherboard/4507-3049_7-32492048.html?tag=mncol;psum

Plus here be the picture of said motherboard.

http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/sc/32492048-2-200-0.gif

That is by the way an explanation of the motherboard specs.

I don't know the card well enough to give you a go ahead, but Masaq can do that probably based off that info.

[HybridX]

i use cpu-Z and have coretemp on most of the time :)

For doom:

the card will obviously go in the pci-e x 16 slot but as its a dual card itll cover the pci-e 1 slot beneath the pci-e x 16 slot

Eg itll take up the space depicted by the turqoise box ive drawn on your mobo so if you have anything in that pci slot youll need to move it down to a lower slot on the motherboard.
http://i37.tinypic.com/op1awk.jpg

Mobo link http://asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=I2f2e2yHI0XF2Vf9&templete=2

[Masaq]

In short, your mobo can handle it so long as your power supply is decent (not some piddly 250W jobbie). If you're running an 8600 in there, it should handle a 9800 just fine.

The 9800 would be pretty decent improvement but not (being honest), an earth-shattering one over your 8600. Your hardware should handle it - if you wanna go ahead, drop me a PM or post here with an offer? No pressure, but I'd rather it goes to a good T&T home rather than sit in a box of spares :)


Mas.

[thedoombringer0]

before i do anything ill have to go check the bank balance :p

Im just going to check in the case first to see what pci slots im using first and to check the power supply rating.

[wooly-back-jack]

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/161726
if you need one and dont want to spend much I bought the above PSU to power my sons PC with 8800GT (it's Trendsonic)

[thedoombringer0]

Just so you know mas im straped for cash at the moment but that will soon change :D and when it does i may well put an offer on the table.

[Masaq]

kk, gimme a shout as and when - tho nowt personal but if someone else pops an offer up between now and then, I'll probably take it! :)

[thedoombringer0]

You still got this knocking about mas?

It seems i will be delaying my new pc for longer than i thought and this has become oh so attractive again =P


Another question does it have a HDMI slot as i would like to start using my TV as my monitor?

[Eddieboi]

most gpus do not have a HDMI slot...however Doom you can buy a DVI-D HDMI adapter from amazon if the gpu has DVI-d connection.

I connect my pc to the tv via this method and also connect the GPU to PC monitor this way with a HDMI cable and the adapters get a nice crips image!

[Masaq]

Whoops, guess I should have updated this thread - I'm actually going to hold onto it for now Doom - I'm planning to swap out the mobo before too long, and want to use the GPU on the 9800 to handle PhysX. Since I'm on an ATi graphics chip now, figured it won't hurt to offload physics processing in a fair few games to a dedicated physics card.

If the update doesn't happen, I'll let you know and you can use it as a stop-gap until you upgrade :)


M.

[thedoombringer0]

Thats alright mas turns out my powersupply wouldnt handle it anyway i figured that out last night =P