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EXPIRED - nVidia 8600GT PCIe graphics card for £36.13 today only

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FOUND BY: Smiff 2 months, 1 day ago

STARTS: 05/07/2008   EXPIRES: 07/07/2008

256MB XFX 8600GT, PCI-E, Mem 1400MHz GDDR2, GPU 540MHz, 32 Cores, D-Sub/DL DVI-I/HDTV
Manufacturer code PV-T84J-UALG

Note: to get this price you have to go via the Today Only link on their homepage:
http://www.scan.co.uk/TodayOnly/ and scroll down to it.
(otherwise comes up £39.94, still good!)
Free delivery if you have an account for that (see AV forums offer etc.)

Today Only (=all weekend) & in stock at time of posting.
Wasn't looking for this myself but seems very cheap, recent hot deals on similar card were around £50, i paid £75 a year ago...

DDR2 (may be a bit slower than DDR3, do the research)
But considering its a pound less than their 8500GT, looks like a cracking deal or a misprice.

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Decent low budget card.
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i'm having big problems with this site, not loading graphics, so can't tell if i've posted it correctly or not sorry.
edit: fixed it by clearing my cookies, ok this looks right? first deal i've actually posted

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nice find smiffy
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got the 512mb version of this card from pc world price match for around £50, plays everything in highest settings on my pc (call of duty 4, rainbow six vegas 2 etc). Not sure if this version will be much different but an excellent budget card for gaming and can be used with 300w cpu. Good find!
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Is there not a £6.55 carriage to be added on to make the price of the card £43.83?

Unless there is a free delivery some how?
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Nice. Would get this if wasent so skinnt. (Always go for budget rangers as aint a graphics snob, as long as the fps is fine on medium-low settings on newish games I'm good).
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I have a GeForce 7600GS at the moment. Is it worth replacing it with this?

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i'm having big problems with this site, not loading graphics, so can't tell if i've posted it correctly or not sorry.
edit: fixed it by clearing my cookies, ok this looks right? first deal i've actually posted
I ordered some stuff from them earlier in the week and had the exact same issue. Pages taking long time to load.

Have to say, I find their support terrible. I ordered stuff from them on Wednesday and was told would be delivered tomorrow. Got an email late on Friday night to say they had a problem and the items weren't dispatched. No detail, no explanation, no date when "issue" supposed to be resolved for. I've ordered from them 2-3 times in the past and vaguely recall this happening before. Perhaps they should concentrate more of getting stuff out than the new shiny store they've just opened.
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Stejay:
I have a GeForce 7600GS at the moment. Is it worth replacing it with this?

Thanks in advance.
I was going to say no, but actually these charts
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/g...score,538.html
show it being around twice as fast. so perhaps it is.
people voting cold because "8600gt is a slow card".. its plenty fast enough for many games, and has low wattage (no power connecter needed, max load under 75W!). just depends what you want to play... i'm sticking with mine until I can get a 8800GS for around this price.

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This card seems fairly cheap if you are prepared to spend more http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/517304...d/Product.html
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Lawlost:
This card seems fairly cheap if you are prepared to spend more http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/517304...d/Product.html
What's the point? 1 GB wont make it any faster unless your playing at "ultra1337" setting (which the card isnt fast enough to do) or using a rediculous resolution.
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I have this type of card from a year ago. It does the job to be honest. Right now I'd spend the extra to get an 4850 though.
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Its a great price for a decent card, but please do bear in mind you can get a 8880gs for about £25 more, and about 3x the performance.
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eh why has this expired.. still in stock.. I keep seeing this happening on this site, is it a trigger happy mod or some automated thing going wrong?
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