Best Graphics Card Under £100?

[Villa_22]

Hello guys, been looking around for a graphics card for the PC I'm building. FX-8150 Processor, Asus M5A99X EVO Motherboard and 600w PSU. Thinking of getting the Radeon 6850. would this be the best card for my setup and price range? Or should I look elsewhere? Thanks for your time.

 

[Doomedspeed]

For around the £100 the 6850 is the one to get.

Is your system purely for gaming and light office use, web browsing ect?

Any reason to get the 8150 over the intel offerings?

 

[Orcvader]

For around the £100 the 6850 is the one to get.

Is your system purely for gaming and light office use, web browsing ect?

Any reason to get the 8150 over the intel offerings?

+1 to this. The 6850 is a great card for the price.

It's a bit silly getting AMD over Intel. Even with less cores, the latest Intels still performs better due to a much higher IPC.

 

[RICKST20]

Id say the 6850 is great for sub £100. Owned one myself and it coped very well indeed. It only started to struggle when i changed my monitor to 1080p. and even then dropping a few settings it worked fine.

+1 for the intel as well.

 

[Villa_22]

Yeah getting it for a bit of everything mainly gaming and video editing. TBH When going through reviews Intel seemed the way to go but on my budget going with the 8150 was £45 cheaper then the I5-2500K. £120 8150 and £165 I5. Anything will be better then the PC I'm on at the minute though.

 

[RICKST20]

Id highly recommend saving for the Intel if you haven't already bought it. It will benefit you greatly in gaming and pretty much everything else over the AMD.

 

[Villa_22]

I've ordered the components but the order can be cancelled. However the money circumstances cant be changed. My choice would either be the FX-8150 with the Radeon HD 6850 Or the I5 with a £40-£50 GPU. What would you say is best to do?

 

[Doomedspeed]

I've ordered the components but the order can be cancelled. However the money circumstances cant be changed. My choice would either be the FX-8150 with the Radeon HD 6850 Or the I5 with a £40-£50 GPU. What would you say is best to do?

Cannot argue with that.

I know the 8150 has good video editing uses, so it'd be worth sticking if there is no move on the budget.



EDIT: Though if you post your full specs and budget we may be able to work something out for your overall budget that may let you have a 2500k/3570k and a 6850.

 

[RICKST20]

If your budget doesn't allow it, then sacrifices have to be made. Stick with the AMD. It will still be a good, capable pc regardless. If your planning on gaming, sacrificing your GPU wont be a good idea!
What is your budget out of interest?

 

[Villa_22]

Budget Was £400

Case £30
Processor £120
Motherboard £70
Ram 8GB £37
PSU 600w £52

Thats £309 Leaving £91 for GPU.

Already have the HDD and DVD player from previous devices.

 

[RICKST20]

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £169.99
1 x MSI HD 6850 "Dual Fan Edition" 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £83.99
1 x Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard with FREE 16GB USB 2.0 PEN £74.98
1 x Cooler Master GX Lite 500W '80 Plus' Power Supply £33.98
1 x OcUK Value 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Low-Voltage Dual Channel Kit £29.99
1 x OcUK Flamingo FM-12A Midi Tower Case - Black/Red £21.98
Total : £428.41 (includes shipping : £11.25).



Or another option: Without overclocking in mind,

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-2400 3.10GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £155.99
1 x MSI HD 6850 "Dual Fan Edition" 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £83.99
1 x MSI H61I-E35 Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £49.99
1 x Cooler Master GX Lite 500W '80 Plus' Power Supply £33.98
1 x OcUK Value 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Low-Voltage Dual Channel Kit £29.99
1 x OcUK Flamingo FM-12A Midi Tower Case - Black/Red £21.98
Total : £389.42 (includes shipping : £11.25).



Best i can come up with so far. Worth thinking about though. Because Intel are so much better than the bulldozer chips.
EDIT: Granted these aren't top spec products but with the budget its a struggle.

 

[Villa_22]

Thanks mate looks very promising. As the Processor is still £50 more though if I cut down on the other stuff would I be better of getting the FX-8150 with a 2GB Radeon HD 6950 or the 2500k with the 1GB 6850? Will deffo think about them options

 

[Dauthi]

Thanks mate looks very promising. As the Processor is still £65 more though if I cut down on the other stuff would I be better of getting the FX-8150 with a 2GB Radeon HD 6950 or the 2500k with the 1GB 6850? Will deffo think about them options

depends on the upgrade path i feel as the 6950 would obviously make it the faster machine.

For me personally i would probably keep the 2500k when i next upgraded 18 months-2 years down the line where as i would probably change out the 8150 if i got that, which would save me getting a whole new system next time round.

Swings and roundabouts. It just depends what you will be doing with it now and in the future.

 

[Doomedspeed]

Or another option: Without overclocking in mind,

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-2400 3.10GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £155.99
1 x MSI HD 6850 "Dual Fan Edition" 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £83.99
1 x MSI H61I-E35 Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £49.99
1 x Cooler Master GX Lite 500W '80 Plus' Power Supply £33.98
1 x OcUK Value 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Low-Voltage Dual Channel Kit £29.99
1 x OcUK Flamingo FM-12A Midi Tower Case - Black/Red £21.98
Total : £389.42 (includes shipping : £11.25).



Best i can come up with so far. Worth thinking about though. Because Intel are so much better than the bulldozer chips.
EDIT: Granted these aren't top spec products but with the budget its a struggle.

That spec is wrong. There is no PCI-E X 16 slot for the GPU.

This motherboard would be better and cheaper.


YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-2400 3.10GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £155.99
1 x MSI HD 6850 "Dual Fan Edition" 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £83.99
1 x Gigabyte H61MA-D2V Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £41.99
1 x Cooler Master GX Lite 500W '80 Plus' Power Supply £33.98
1 x OcUK Value 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Low-Voltage Dual Channel Kit £29.99
1 x OcUK Flamingo FM-12A Midi Tower Case - Black/Red £21.98
Total : £381.42 (includes shipping : £11.25).



Personally, id do this with that budget and add a aftermarket cooler when i can afford too.


YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £169.99
1 x MSI HD 6850 "Dual Fan Edition" 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £83.99
1 x **B Grade** Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 (MB-364-GI) £50
1 x OCZ ZS Series 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £49.99
1 x OcUK Value 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Low-Voltage Dual Channel Kit £29.99
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Midi Tower Case - Black £29.99
Total : £428.95 (includes shipping : £12.50).

 

[bru]

If your OK going for a B grade motherboard then you could go with this

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £169.99
1 x MSI HD 6850 "Dual Fan Edition" 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £83.99
1 x **B Grade** Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-GEN3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £60.00
1 x OCZ CoreXtreme 500w '80 Plus' Power Supply £32.99
1 x OcUK Value 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Low-Voltage Dual Channel Kit £29.99
1 x OcUK Flamingo FM-12A Midi Tower Case - Black/Red £21.98
Total : £398.94 (includes shipping : FREE).



if not then you could go for this setup, both would be overclockable but really would be best with a aftermarket heatsink and fan at a latter date.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £169.99
1 x MSI HD 6850 "Dual Fan Edition" 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £83.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-DS3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £74.99
1 x OCZ CoreXtreme 500w '80 Plus' Power Supply £32.99
1 x OcUK Value 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Low-Voltage Dual Channel Kit £29.99
1 x OcUK Flamingo FM-12A Midi Tower Case - Black/Red £21.98
Total : £413.93 (includes shipping : FREE).



Both of these specs are without shipping costs.