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Hi all,

Just looking on here and can see a few bits and pieces of hardware for sale but nothing major.

is there a Skylines Australia forum in the world ofgaming ? :-)

Have checked whirlpool forums and Oz Oc's but nothing really sticks out.

We could also then add the foum onto the good deals we have as a sticky at the top of this section.

So if you know of a pc related forum with some good 2nd hand hardware please let me know :-)

2nd hand and cheap GTX275 or GTX285 or a nice 4870x2 would be nice :-)

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Depends, im on xtremesystems.org

Lot of stuff comes through here, predominately US though, some good deals can be had.

You need min 100 posts and then Admin approval before you can see the For Sale though :P

If you gimme a limit, i can check out and see if there is anything?

  • 5 weeks later...

umm not sure yet about price its a HIS brand though

offer a price? not in any real hurry to sell it ether it plays games fine i was just thinking about upgrading at christmas to a new dx11 card

Good luck finding a 5850/5870 at the moment, TSMC's yields are shithouse, there is NO stock anywhere and won't be for IMO - 2 months.

There will be no christmas surprises for us, for the DX11 cards, honestly, better off waiting until probably march/april before seriously thinking about one.

STALKER is basically the only game using DX11 properly, other games are ages off yet.

4890's new ATM are cheap anyway, $220 will get you one, which is basically half the price of a 5850 which is about right considering a 5850 is roughly double the performance of the 4890 give/take.

I've had my 8800GT for quite awhile now, not sure really why people get the latest until there is that game that pushes to do so. Of course there are some people that do nothing but play MMORPG's which help to not upgrade hardware so fast.

Playing low - med settings on GTA IV with my 9800 GTX when there is so much more detail that could be had is what is tempting me :-)

Just bought Borderlands and would love to see the gfx capability of that game in all of its maxed out glory which i just dont the the 9800 GTX can do anymore, it has been an awesome card with last years games, but the brand new ones are requiring just that little bit of extra grunt.

I'll prob wait for the HD5890 to be released before I decide which DX11 card to get, in the mean time I'm going to crossfire the 4870.

There's no vast improvement upgrading your card for GTA IV, check out the GPU benchmark results. To date it's prob the worst port ever made for the PC, and it's more CPU reliant than GPU.

What's your video settings for Borderlands and frame rate (w/ fraps)?

havent played it yet, small things amuse small minds i bought it amusing myself that before i play it i have to save up and get the 5850 to realy spoil myself with.

It wil be my own little xmas present for mysef.

Unless as mentioned i can find a nice cheap 4890 or 275!

A lot of the reviews though are saying that the 4890s are big and loud. I have a centurion 5 case so i shooould be able to fit it in.

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