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Best graphics card for 1080p gaming?

cklynx

cklynx

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Looking to upgrade my 6950 now but with me not really knowing a lot about computer components all the different types of graphics cards confuse me!

I've been looking at the 780 but there's so many to choose from I honestly do not know which one to pick!

I basically just want a single card which can max out all the games at 1080p, price isnt a HUGE issue but I'd prefer it to be around £400 - £500 MAX

Any help would be much appreciated thanks
 
780 Gaming Edition or 290 Tri-X would be my choices :)
Or the 780Ti/290x of each model if you want to spend some more.
 
If I had £400-500 to spend on a GPU right now, I'd...not spend that much. You've picked a good time to buy: OcUK have plenty of offers on at the moment. The pick of the deals is probably MSI's 290 Gaming for £350. I'd go with that (as the Sapphire 290 Tri-X is out of stock). If you want a 780, I can happily recommend the Inno3D iChill - a three-slot monster of a card.

Or would I? Perhaps the 780ti Gaming for £510...

cklynx said:
Thanks for the quick replies!

I've just found out one of my friends purchased this one http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...ktdetailseite&emcs2=GX-200-OK&emcs3=GX-209-MS

How does this compare to http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-200-OK ?
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The MSI cooler is quieter (not that the reference one is particularly loud), and it has an out-of-the-box overclock.
 
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Fulax said:
If I had £400-500 to spend on a GPU right now, I'd...not spend that much. You've picked a good time to buy: OcUK have plenty of offers on at the moment. The pick of the deals is probably MSI's 290 Gaming for £350. I'd go with that (as the Sapphire 290 Tri-X is out of stock). If you want a 780, I can happily recommend the Inno3D iChill - a three-slot monster of a card.

Or would I? Perhaps the 780ti Gaming for £510...



The MSI cooler is quieter (not that the reference one is particularly loud), and it has an out-of-the-box overclock.
Click to expand...

So perhaps maybe even https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-241-MS

Coming to think of it, would a 780Ti be abit TO powerful for single monitor gaming at 1080p?
 
Not if you want to run every title at maximum settings, no. That said, I'd rather go for a GTX780, reference cooler or MSI, as the 'ti' is a lot more money for not that much more performance. If you must have the best, though, the GTX780ti is the fastest single gpu card around.
 
What games are you going to mainly play, and are you bothered about physx?

i have a 290 and 1200p monitor, on bf4 i can max settings (all ultra and msaa x4) and get very playable fps
 
To be perfectly honest, I wouldn't really be playing a lot of the 'newest' games.

I'm only really playing BF3 & Dayz i'l possibly get bf4 later on down the line but other than that I haven't got myself a new decent game in ages.

I have only recently just got my old computer back all has really good specs just needs an up to date graphics card but if I can future proof it that would be a bonus which is why I am looking at the 780's.

Having owned a 6950 I couldn't go back to AMD I honestly do not like them so i'l stick with nvidia
 
I play a lot of bf3 and 4, and the former in particular at 1920x1200 runs flawlessly on a stock speed gtx 780, every setting maxed. Bf4 is a bit more demanding but still more than playable, dropping msaa to x2 instead of 4 results in very good fps. The game itself is still a bit buggy though.
 
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