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Best bang-for-buck card, 1080p

Mockingbird

Mockingbird

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Hello,

What's the (in your opinion) best bang-for-your-buck card currently available?

System is an i5 3570k, single monitor 1920x1080 res, unlikely to replace or add a screen any time soon.

Happy to hear suggestions from both red and green camps.

I don't have many modern games (still working through steam backlog from last year's sale!) so decent software bundles can be worth taking into account.

Card to be replaced is an HD5850, so that's the 'improvement baseline'. Unsure of crossfire/SLi support.

Thanks for your consideration and opinions.
 
7850/660 at the low end; 7950 at the high end.

Anything else in the middle or either side you'd pretty much be better off going high/lower depending if you want to save money or spend more.
 
Mockingbird said:
Card to be replaced is an HD5850, so that's the 'improvement baseline'. Unsure of crossfire/SLi support.
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I am in the same situation and only really a HD7950 would really be a decent improvement. However,the HD7870 Special Edition is worth hunting out as it is much cheaper and only slightly slower than a HD7950 at 1920X1080.

There are some reviews in this thread and the names of the models which you need to look for:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18468843

TBH,I would probably wait until the HD8000 series is out by summer. This is what I hope to do.
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
I am in the same situation and only really a HD7950 would really be a decent improvement. However,the HD7870 Special Edition is worth hunting out as it is much cheaper and only slightly slower than a HD7950 at 1920X1080.

There are some reviews in this thread and the names of the models which you need to look for:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18468843

TBH,I would probably wait until the HD8000 series is out by summer. This is what I hope to do.
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Interesting link, thanks.
 
I can't find ANYWHERE listing the 7870 LE.

I found a 3Gb 7950 on ebay for £72, but a bit of tentative bidding shows at least one person has already set their 'high bid' a good degree over this. Ah well, seemed too good to be true :D
 
rolypolyman said:
'I can't find ANYWHERE listing the 7870 LE.'

You didn't look hard enough! :)
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Fair enough.

what might have been a better phrasing is "I'm yet to identify a search term that reliably allows comparison of sellers of the LE as there are so many different 7870 cards out there with 'edition' in their name that the search results are needlessly hard to navigate."

Edit: having checked some of the reviews in that thread as advised, I note the issue with card naming - looks like I'll have a fun time checking individual models, rather than the generic card type. Well, thanks for all the pointers, anyway.
 
i agree with some of the above,the 7870 le is the best bang for buck card atm,though they are reference cards right now 8% slower than the 7950's but around £30-£40 cheaper
 
wazza300 said:
vtx,powercolour,club3d
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They always seem to be the first ones to produce cards that are just coming out. 7990, 7870 LE and before 560ti 448
I think instead of 7950 I'll buy 7870 LE, save some cash.
The price before christmas have went up by a fair bit. Will wait after christmas.
 
it depends really,if you take into account the bundled games with the 7950's it works out about the same money,unless they start doing the game bundles with the le

the le has a 256bit bus as apposed to 300 an odd on the 7950's but that wont make any difference at 1080 res,tbh the 7850 is capable at that screensize
 
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