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Best gaming card for £100?

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:p makes a change from the £500+ to spend threads.

As the title says, I'm after the best possible card for £100 max. :( I'll mainly want to be playing the new Tomb Raider so something that can handle that at 1600x1200 is what I need and maybe some other new games this year. I read that the 7750's with GDDRR 5 are the way to go?
 
Second hand may be the way to go here.

You'd be able to pretty much max Tomb Raider 60fps at that resolution with a GTX 480.

Can be had for £70-£80 from the members market, not sure about anywhere else though.

If you wanted AMD then a 6950/6870 can be had second hand for less than a ton, both of which are faster than the 7750. You may even be able to pick up a used 7850 if you're lucky!
 
i think you just missed the amd deal where you would get tomb raider free with the 7850 but a 7850 is a good card and they overclock well so if you do plan to oc pick one with good cooling like the iceq
but OCUK have left the games in the title of the iceq so maybe they still have some codes left some other stores have removed them from the listings though
 
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I'd go with an Msi or Gigabyte 7850 longer warranty and better customer service and better less noisy cooling.
 
There are rumours of an HD7790 being released in the next few weeks,with near HD7850 level performance. I would wait and see if it is released and what the performance will be like.
 
Just sold my two gtx470'S with EK waterblocks fitted, for £100 on another forum,

second hand is the way to go here
 
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About time, the gap between the 7770 and the 7850 is yawning, they should have had it 8 months ago.
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The sub £150 market is somewhat meh,ATM TBH.

Even an HD7850 2GB does not double the framerates of a HD6850 1GB in Crysis3,and costs much more. The HD7770 is actually worse than an HD6850 too.
 
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CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
The sub £150 market is somewhat meh,ATM TBH.

Even an HD7850 2GB does not double the framerates of a HD6850 1GB in Crysis3,and costs much more. The HD7770 is actually worse than an HD6850 too.
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Agreed, hopfully the 8770 will be at 7850 performance level with 192Bit 1.5GB vRam for £110, that would really shake things up at the lower end.

Hopefully AMD will have learnt a little something from nvidia in that you don't need to use the more expensive 256Bit 2GB philosophy for good 1080P performance.

With 7850 GPU grunt and the cheaper 192Bit vRam IC's; and less of them (1.5GB) they could have a very good £100+ level GPU while not costing so much to make.

The 7770 with only 60% of the 7850's SP's and 1GB of 128Bit vRam just doesn't really cut it for 1080P.
 
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humbug said:
Agreed, hopfully the 8770 will be at 7850 performance level with 192Bit 1.5GB vRam for £110, that would really shake things up at the lower end.

Hopefully AMD will have learnt a little something from nvidia in that you don't need to use the more expensive 256Bit 2GB philosophy for good 1080P performance.

With 7850 GPU grunt and the cheaper 192Bit vRam IC's; and less of them (1.5GB) they could have a very good £100+ level GPU while not costing so much to make.

The 7770 with only 60% of the 7850's SP's and 1GB of 126Bit vRam just doesn't really cut it for 1080P.
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Yep!!

Another thing,AMD - make your lower end and midrange cards shorter!!

Cards like the GTX660 2GB are compact,so they can fit in many different types of systems. Compare that to the HD7870,a good card but its PCB length could be less.
 
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