GPU is at my house...installing today...should be able to start AFK moving ships when I get home!

Hope to be on and then start running some ops in the near future!

Hey, I actually beat you back this time!

Well, I should have a GTX280 at my house by the time I get home today! I should have it installed and ready to roam for tomorrow night!!!

Not the fastest turn around, but a lot faster than Seregon's computer pains and a pretty decent boost in performance at the same time!

Sounds like where I am going to be stuck, which might be a bad attitude to have as the 260GTX appears to be a better card benefiting from another year or two of R&D.

Found a pretty good forum series called Extreme Overclocking (http://forums.extremeoverclocking.com) that seems to show that the 260 is an improvement and to be very happy that they are not offering a like for like replacement. Anyway, I will try and negotiate for better then take what I can. Hopefully will be back to pew pew shortly after getting my system back up and running...will have to buy a new Vagabond since I will be able to fly one of those now too!

How long ago did you buy the card?

They'll only give you a replacement to the value of the card now... i.e.: if the 8800 is only worth £50 now then that's all they'll put towards a replacement.

I got the same deal when my card fried, got offered either a like-for-like, or £70... was a tad pissed, seeing as it cost me £350, and the 70 barely paid for the warrenty I bought.

I've no idea how the two cards compare, or what the cost of each is, but don't expect something of the same value as you originally paid.