http://www.palit.biz/palit/vgapro.php?id=1504

Anyone heard of this one, I can pick one up for £418 which sounds like a good price to me but I'v never heard of the brand before. I only have about £500 to spend (can go a little higher) and need a new hard drive as well so the usual suspects are a bit to dear for my budget.
Just after some opinions before I splash the cash.

I notice the card has 3GB of memory (which I assume adds to the cost). That amount only pays off at freakishly high resolutions (e.g. 30 inch monitor or 3 Monitors -- which may require two GTX580 with Nvidia).

I notice your monitor is 1680x1050. Typically, 1GB of memory is plenty up to 1920x1200. 1.5GB is good above 1920x1200. Most of that normally depends on the use of AA. If one does not use AA, memory above 1GB is less useful. For example, I have 5760x1200 Eyefinity. Though I use CrossFire, the "effective" memory is 1GB (as each card renders alternate frames). I don't normally use AA. But, I am in Skyrim -- along with virtually all the BIG texture mods. No problem.

I bring this up because you indicate the need for a card plus a hard drive and have a budget. If you are not going to up-size the monitor, you can easily get by with a 1.5GB memory GTX580 graphics card, I speculate -- this could save enough to afford the hard drive. Actually, for the size monitor you have, the GTX580 may be overkill (i.e. maybe consider GTX570).

FWIW.

Thanks Allen
I understand what you say about the amount of memory but I'v heard some good things about using a 3Gb card with FSX and RW3 and I would also like to add a second monitor at some time in the near future.
I could probably push the budget up to £600 at a stretch but would like to keep it lower if possible hence the enquire about that particular card, all the other more well known brands seem to be about £450+