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Recommendations for DX11 £150 GPU

ceemuk

ceemuk

ceemuk

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Budget £150.

Must haves:

DX11
Ability to game full screen at 1920*1200 with reasonable detail, and handle dual DVI monitors in the desktop.
Single GPU, dual slot is fine.

Any manufacturer considered, except XFX (due to previous bad experience with last GPU).

PSU requirements unimportant.

Recommendations?

Cheers!
 
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Just got a GTX 560 Ti and couldn't be happier with it. Quiet, powerful and pretty cheap. My budget was about the same but spending that extra £20-£30 was worth it imo.
 
Undoubtedly a 6870. People will suggest 560ti's etc and the ti is a great card no question but it is over £150, you are looking at £165-£180 for that card, and if you go for that then you get people saying 'well if you getting a 560ti, better spend an extra £20 and get a 2gb 6950' and it goes on and on and on.

At the end of the day the 6870 has very similar performance to the 560ti and will match it if overclocked-plus it is significantly cheaper.

Another major website will sell you a new 6870 delivered with a deus ex AND dirt 3 game code for £125, which is amazing value.

I am playing witcher 2 at 1080p with everything maxed out other than ubersampling and it is smooth as butter (I have an i5-2500k/8GB DDR3 rig) so that would absolutely be my recommendation- there is no need to stretch to a 560ti.
 
Dont get why people are pitching the 560ti.

A.) It is over the max budget of £150

B.) You can get a 6870 for a lot less and OC it to stock 560ti performance or thereabouts, and even at stock a 6870 is close to a 560ti and perfectly sufficient for playing most things at max at 1080p.
 
I thought the HD6870 was closer to the GTX560 (non-Ti) performance?

I say - if you can afford the extra, stretch. If you can't, the HD6870 is a brilliant card. The Vapor-X in particular is a brilliant cooler.
 
6870 = 30-50 fps bf3 beta on high with no aa etc so if you want ultra details should be looking at something better.
The 6870 is pretty much the same as a 5850 but the deals with 2x games make sense IF you can sell the game vouchers.
 
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The 6870 beats the gtx560-TI in Shogun II, Crysis I and Metro2033. Not bad for a card that costs at least £42 less (more likely £60+) when electricity is factored in.

In order of value for money: hd5870 > hd 6870 > gtx560 > gtx560-TI
 
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In summary:

Both cards run games well, the 560Ti probably just about wins on average but costs more than your budget allows.

In short: Go for the 6870 and save a few quid. It's also supposed to be a good overclocker so that's another plus.
 
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