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GTX460 - GTX760

SkidMarkKing

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Hello.

Birthday is coming up soon + payday.

Im thinking of upgrading my GTX460 and selling it.

Ive seen a GTX760 2GB for £180. Would this be considered a huge upgrade? I have come over from console gaming and hope to stick with pc gaming in the future due to the racing sims and gaming with a keyboard/mouse.

I currently run dual 21.5" benq monitors.

Worth getting it for an upgrade? Im also thinking it will be future proof too, well for a while atleast and keep me covered for when new games are out like Call of Duty: Ghosts.

Thanks
 
Get the Asus GTX 670 instead for £198. It's a better card with an excellent cooler. Either way, yes - massive upgrade as long as your CPU's up to it.
 
teppic said:
Get the Asus GTX 670 instead for £198. It's a better card with an excellent cooler. Either way, yes - massive upgrade as long as your CPU's up to it.
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I have the AMD Phenom II x 4 965 with the noctua nh-d14 heatsink. Not overclocked, yet! :p


So I need to do my research really first, higher the series is not always the best? I see what you mean with cooling though as the ASUS as the large pipping too.

I will consider second hand too if something pops up on this forum in the mean while.
 
The CPU's ok - it'll bottleneck a few games but you'll be fine with shooters and so on.

The 760 is a cut down version of the 670, then overclocked to make it seem almost as fast. At the offer price of the 670, the 760 isn't even worth considering.
 
teppic said:
The CPU's ok - it'll bottleneck a few games but you'll be fine with shooters and so on.

The 760 is a cut down version of the 670, then overclocked to make it seem almost as fast. At the offer price of the 670, the 760 isn't even worth considering.
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What sort of games will it bottleneck with then?

Ile look out for a 670 then. Will be a week or two before I purchase anyway so ile keep an eye out in the for sale section here.
 
World of Warcraft and Starcraft II are the big ones. Generally older CPU intensive games, especially strategy. But in something like BF3, looking at a current benchmark, you'd go from 37fps to 80fps at stock clocks.

If the 670s are gone by the time you buy, you'll want to look at the 760s vs the 7950s.
 
teppic said:
World of Warcraft and Starcraft II are the big ones. Generally older CPU intensive games, especially strategy. But in something like BF3, looking at a current benchmark, you'd go from 37fps to 80fps at stock clocks.

If the 670s are gone by the time you buy, you'll want to look at the 760s vs the 7950s.
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Ok bud. Ile probably end up bumping this thread again as to which make of the GPU I buy.

Seen a "MSI GTX660 Twin Frozr III OC 2GB" in the for sale section for £115 posted.
 
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I'd recommend a 7950 if going with dual monitors, the 384-bit + 3gb vram would work great. Also, a 7950 overclocked to 1.1ghz~ will match the performance of a GTX680.

If you get round to overclocking the phenom, aim for 3.8-4ghz core and 2.6ghz northbridge
 
The GTX 660 isn't very good really, it doesn't compare to the 670 or 7950.

If you might go Crossfire/SLI, the 7950's definitely worth it for two monitors. At the moment there aren't very good deals on the 7950 but it might change.
 
Went from a 460 to a 670 myself and got an excellent boost, some games I doubled frame rate. I then went to a 1080p monitor and was very glad of the upgrade. Well worth it and I would go 670 instead of 760.
 
I wouldn't bother until you have oc'd your CPU. You will be quite severely bottlenecked in many games with your CPU's stock speed.
 
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Get that cpu oc'd to 3.8 for a start....
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Will look at doing that tonight then.

Any good youtube videos? I did download cpu-z and some other programs abit ago ready to overclock it but I never got round to it.

Once I have done this ile look in to a 670 then instead of the 760 as recommended by many people now.
 
I went for a £180 GTX 760. After looking at benchmarks of an overclocked 760 vs an overclocked 670 the difference in performance is pretty minimal, not worth the extra £20. £199 is a decent price for the nice cooler on the 670 though, I don't think it was that price when I was looking.

I went to the 760 from a 470 and it's been a nice jump in performance for me, I didn't do any comprehensive tests but kombuster went from around 70fps to 115fps. And the GPU boost feature makes overclocking really easy!
 
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