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Best nvidia for around £150?
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660's http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=1914&subid=2379
All should be fine for those games. Or there are the 750/Ti at a cheaper price but I think it's a weaker card overall, but will be OK also.
All should be fine for those games. Or there are the 750/Ti at a cheaper price but I think it's a weaker card overall, but will be OK also.
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The MSI 760 OC Gaming Edition is on offer at the moment for £169.99, that seems like a pretty good deal.
^this and sell the free game
Otherwise keep a eye out on MM for a nice 770
Or 670 as i do well in both of them games fps wise. For arma make sure u have a 3570k or equivalence to it as it needs a good cpu as my mate has a i7 930 and gets roughly 20-30fps less than me whereas we both have the same gpu well mines a 2gb version his is a 4gb version.
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There's not arguing about the efficiency of the 750Ti, but it is a bit underpowered for demanding games, with it being slower than even the GTX650Ti Boost 2GB and HD7850.
Personally I agree with the suggestion of going for a 2nd hand GTX680/GTX670; I wouldn't spend £170+ on the GTX760 when a 280 (HD7950) or 280x even can be had for around the same price. The GTX760 really need to be at £150 to be honest.
750ti maxwell well its ok for low power and aint too bad but not really gona be maxing details and aa with it tho medium with a tiny bit of aa might work who knows. I wouldnt get it if you play demanding games like arma 3 or planetside 2 or b4.
I still reckon a 2nd hand 670 to be a great price to performance card these days which can max almost anything at 1080p and aint too power hungry.
I still reckon a 2nd hand 670 to be a great price to performance card these days which can max almost anything at 1080p and aint too power hungry.
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For a Corsair 250D case, I'd try to get a 2nd hand Gigabyte GTX670/GTX680 Windforce (with 3 fans, so run at a lower rpm) which can draw cool air directly from air-vent on the left side-panel, a low-profile CPU cooler for the CPU (so it doesn't block or take up all the space at the main chamber), and then with two 120mm on right side-panel and two 80mm fans at low rpm as exhaust to remove the heat from the case.
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Not if you have them at lower rpm. More fans would mean you can achieve the same cooling capable without as aggressive rpm (which is the biggest contribution to noise). But I guess you could probably do without the two rear 80mm fans and rely on just the two 120mm fan on the right-side panel as exhaust should still be more than sufficient. I don't think the fan noise level would be an issue as long as you keeping it at no higher than 800-900rpm. If you are not going to install a DVD-drive, you might considering getting a low cost fan controller such as this:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-072-BX&groupid=701&catid=2331&subcat=189
I am using one myself...it is nothing fancy (well, it does make your case look a bit smarter in a way), but does the job
For the Windforce cooler, it would probably keep a stock GTX670/GTX680 at no more than around 60C under load using a reasonable custom fanspeed profile, but for you situaton you would most probably need it to be quieter than that, so you can set the profile to have the fan at even lower speed, aim at not exeeding 70-75C should be more than fine.
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Arma 3 and BF4 both favour AMD. So if you would consider AMD then you could also use Mantle which runs nicely on BF4 and offers a superior gaming experience compared to DX11.1. The card below is cool, quiet and will overclock well.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-328-SP&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1982
You get two free games with that card as well and its similar in performance to a 760. It will run Mantle on BF4 very nicely indeed and probably offer a faster and smoother experience vs a 760.
I'd rather have a brand new card with warranty than a second hand card with no or limited warranty, personally speaking.
Just something to consider. No harm meant with my suggestion if you only want to consider a Nvidia gpu.
Don't know for sure tbh on ARMA 3, just took the word of a few friends that have tried it on both cards. YMMV.
The wf cooler is extremely good, using the stock auto fan setting on a wf 670 i had. I never seen it go over 67c despite it running with a very high oc of +130/+760, this was in a bitfenix shinobi xl which had virtually zero front air intake due to its front panel design.