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Buying a GTX 660

varkanoid said:
Gigabyte has excellent customer service.

I had the Asus 670 and it was a beautiful card. There is a noticeable difference between the 660 and 670 when playing games imho.

Either Gigabyte or Asus are fine.

The 660 is a lot better than a 650ti although saying that my brother has the latter and he is happy.

Depends on what res you game at too.

If you can stretch to it and want a 660 then I would get this

EVGA GeForce GTX 660 FTW ACX 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £149
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I can probably stretch to that, but I can also get a used 670 for about £20 more, which I may as well get as they are about £70-80 more new.

The 650Ti is probably a bit underpowered, the boost is more of an option, though it's the same price as a new 660 which I can't understand but there you go :D
 
bru said:
Erm..... the 660 performs right in between the 270 and the 270X and it is cheaper than both so I'm not quite sure where your coming from.

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Radeon R9 270X Gaming Edition OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £149.99
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 270 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £143.99
1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 660 WindForce 2X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £139.99
Total : £433.97 (includes shipping : FREE).




To the opening poster there is nothing inherently wrong with the 660 but the R7 270X is probably a better bet within this price range.

This one would be my choice.
YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Radeon R9 270X Gaming Edition OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £149.99
Total : £149.99 (includes shipping : FREE).

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the 660 is a fair bit behind the 270. the 660ti is around the same and a 670 is a tiny bit better than a 270x
 
arc@css said:
Agreed.
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:p

Though if you look at any benchmark comparisons, you can see that in some games the NVIDIA cards outperform the AMD cards and visa versa, so they're never directly 'on par' it just appears to average out as such.

The pricing also plays a major part in it.

270's are factory overclocked 7850's, 270X’s are factory overclocked 7870's.

Go benchmark hunting on Anandtech GPU 13 and make up your mind as to what suits you best. :)

As they use stock/reference cards and any 660 you could buy today is over clocked anyway, the ratio between a 660 and 7870 for example should be about the same as the ratio between a 660 SC and a 270X :)
 
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So does anyone know what length the warranty of an Asus GTX670 is? Can't find it on the website.
 
Wow awesome, the seller bought it in Sep 2012 so I should be good to go. Thanks for that.
 
Hmm, I just asked someone with the 2GB version which he is selling and he said the standard warranty is 1 year - is yours the GTX670-DC2-4GD5 or the 2GD5?
 
I looked at the GTX760 out of curiosity and found that it is around the same price. I know the performance is slightly worse than the GTX670 but is it worth going for the 7 series card for futureproofness or something like that?
 
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