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Upgrading from an MSI R7850, suggestions?

ChetzB

ChetzB

ChetzB

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Hi all, hope you've all had a good New Year!

I wanted to ask (again, as I normally have in the past) suggestions for GFX cards. I enjoy my 7850 but want to switch back to an NVIDIA based card for rendering.

Currently have my eye on this: MSI GeForce GTX 760 OC Gaming Edition 4096MB

However being around £259.99 is a bit of a spend and I would ideally like to look for something around £200 give/take. So, my question would be, is the £59.99 worth it over either of these two cards?

1. Gainward GeForce GTX 760 Phantom 2048MB
2. Gigabyte GeForce GTX 760 WindForce 3x OC Rev2 2048MB

My current specs:
Power Supply: XFX 650W Pro Power supply
CPU: Intel Core i5 2500K 3.30GHz Sandybridge CPU
Motherboard: Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard ** B3 REVISION **
Graphics card: MSI HD 7850 Twin Frozr III OC 2048MB GDDR5
Cooler: Corsair H50 CPU Cooler
RAM: Corsair 16 GB Vengeance 240-pin DIMM DDR3-RAM 1600 MHz
Hard Drives: Samsung SSD 840 Evo/Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6GB/s

Thanks for any input :)
 
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I would have suggested a 280x but seen as your wanting to go Nvidia :( can't lol. Yea your best bet on a £200 budget is a 760 which is what I recommended my friend few days ago as he was the same Nvidia all the way. But when he asked what was better and I told him the 770 which actually is not that much more if your shop around he went and got that for only few quid more.
So if your budget is a £250-£260 mark you could easily find a GTX 770.

Those cards you was looking at the MSI and Gigabyte are both good cards but for the price difference I would go with the gigabyte quite easily saving £60. Both will overclock as good as one another and the gigabyte has the better cooler so this would easily justify it for me £60 cheaper better cooler and can overclock just as well as the MSI.

The MSI Is just a better looking card really lol.
 
r7slayer said:
I would have suggested a 280x but seen as your wanting to go Nvidia :( can't lol. Yea your best bet on a £200 budget is a 760 which is what I recommended my friend few days ago as he was the same Nvidia all the way. But when he asked what was better and I told him the 770 which actually is not that much more if your shop around he went and got that for only few quid more.
So if your budget is a £250-£260 mark you could easily find a GTX 770.

Those cards you was looking at the MSI and Gigabyte are both good cards but for the price difference I would go with the gigabyte quite easily saving £60. Both will overclock as good as one another and the gigabyte has the better cooler so this would easily justify it for me £60 cheaper better cooler and can overclock just as well as the MSI.

The MSI Is just a better looking card really lol.
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Only reason I would like to go NVIDIA again is due to making use of the CUDA cores. I could use my old GTX 460 1GB but if I decide that I would have fancied doing some PC gaming, I don't want to have to swap out GFX cards just for that.

I may decide to go for the Gigabyte, would just need to ensure it would fit in my case, which is an Antec 300 case. Should just about fit I believe.


arc@css said:
The 4gb of video ram wouldn't be worth the extra unless you were going very high res (over 1600p), so multi-monitor / multi-gpu in other words.


If you're able and willing to spend a tad more, then I'd look at this :

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-202-MS&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1750


Otherwise, either of the GTX760 cards you mentioned would be fine.
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I'll keep that bookmarked for now, nice suggestion. I'm able to spend the money. However overall, in maybe another year or two, I was considering to upgrade my entire rig, so not sure whether it would be worth it buying this now, or just waiting and saving up. I suppose generally waiting and saving up would be better, but at the same time, there's always going to be something better elsewhere.


roadie said:
Or try to source a used 670 or 680 which are great value over the 760.
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Would be a bit of shopping around I suppose, time to get looking to compare.


Litmoose said:
Would getting a 760 actually be worth paying 200+ for. . Sure it'll be better but not worth the cost imo.
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Nickjf20 said:
Really won't be a big upgrade over the 7850
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Is there anything you could suggest then perhaps? The main reason I'm looking into an NVIDIA card is to make use of the CUDA cores for video rendering in Sony Vegas.


arc@css said:
Have you tried overclocking your 7850?
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I've only used the AMD Overdrive software to adjust the performance of the card, however not used any other software to do this. More so, by increasing the GPU clock from 900MHz to 1050MHz, the memory clock from 1200MHz to 1450MHz, didn't yeild much of a change for rendering unfortunately. Gaming performance is noticeable however.

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Thank you everyone for your input on this. I appreciate it may not make a lot of sense (or rather, it may make no sense at all and I shouldn't really try upgrading?) but it's something I've noticed since upgrading to the 7850. I do welcome any further feedback :)
 
The 670 is slightly better than the 760 and in turn, the 770 is slightly better than the 680. I would look to grab a 670 or add a few more squid and grab a 770. You can sell the 7850 to add to your budget :)
 
Gregster said:
The 670 is slightly better than the 760 and in turn, the 770 is slightly better than the 680. I would look to grab a 670 or add a few more squid and grab a 770. You can sell the 7850 to add to your budget :)
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To be quite fair, I have a 2x4GB ram kit, the GTX 460 and the 7850 to use for cash if I were to sell those to add to my budget. Only issue is that I've never sold anything online, more so I wouldn't want to get less for them by selling to high street stores to get the cash. But a thought none the less I shall take on board :)

Would there be a particular 670 you could reccomend at all? ASUS/MSI/GIGABYTE, etc? :)
 
arc@css said:
Just throwing another suggestion out there : I don't know how loud this card is - I guess if you're someone that specifically wants a really quiet card, then this won't be for you. Anyway, this is good performance for the money...

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-189-OK&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1750
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You seem to know me quite well sir :P

I would generally like a card that is fairly quiet for when audio recordings take place, but then as I only record then remove background noise/PC fans going off etc, it shouldn't be too much of a bother.

That being said, this does look quite nice. Shall add it to my list of possible choices. Thank you :)
 
It is a shame that you don't have access to the Members Market, as I never bothered to sell anything on the bay because of the hassle that can potentially come with it, so used to give the stuff away but the MM is a great place to sell and buy.

The one problem with my suggestion of a 670 is finding one.... They were EOL quite a bit before Christmas and the stock that is available is quite expensive, so probably best to rule that out.

If noise isn't an issue, the card Arc@css links to would do a grand job and a good price. I would have no issues buying that card :)
 
Gregster said:
It is a shame that you don't have access to the Members Market, as I never bothered to sell anything on the bay because of the hassle that can potentially come with it, so used to give the stuff away but the MM is a great place to sell and buy.

The one problem with my suggestion of a 670 is finding one.... They were EOL quite a bit before Christmas and the stock that is available is quite expensive, so probably best to rule that out.

If noise isn't an issue, the card Arc@css links to would do a grand job and a good price. I would have no issues buying that card :)
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I just checked that out, 1000 posts to make. I make use of the forum from time to time but that will indeed take a long time for me to get up there :(
I see at one point it was only 250 points :/

But yeah I know what you mean, I would trust using the MM here. Guess I'll have to stick up a sign at work for anyone looking for a used graphics card ha.

I've found two on Amazon, still on the lookout though.
> "Asus GTX 770 Nvidia GeForce DirectCU II OC 2GB GDDR5 Graphics Card (PCI Express 3.0, HDMI, DVI-I, DVI-D, Display Port, 256 Bit, 3D Vision Ready, GPU Boost 2.0)" which is £239 (Amazon Prime)

> "MSI GTX 660 Gaming Fan 2GD5 / OC 2048 MB / GDDR5 / PCIe / 192 bit DisplayPort / HDMI DVI-I/-D Active" which is £129.97 + £5.10 UK delivery.
 
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