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Cards Under £150?

Shampoo

Shampoo

Shampoo

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Hi,

Brother needs a card that can easily handle 1080p video content from HD files to actual Blu-ray discs. He's a bit tight so he wants to stay under £100 - in fact he wants to go as low as possible! he's not a gamer so just something that can handle video playback without overheating and dying. His previous card's fan failed and the thing rocketed to 100c and died the other night.:(

I'm after a card myself for gaming and have a top limit of about £150. Monitor resolution maxes out at 1600x1200 (CRT) so I'm hopeful I can get sorted for the money? Current card is a GeForce GTX 460 v2, so something that blows that away would be ideal.

Buying later this week so happy to canvas a few suggestions.

Thanks for your help. :)
 
I'm not sure on the board but we already tried running video and it was pretty choppy so I don't think it's up to the task alone.

It's the board that came with this.

"Battlefield War Rush Intel Core i5 2500K 3.30GHz @ 4.40GHz DDR3 Limited Edition Quad Core Gaming PC ** FREE: BATTLEFIELD 3 & PREMIUM EXPANSION PACK **"

But you're not listing it here any more so I can't get details.
 
Maybe we should update the Intel drivers and have a go at allocating more memory to the on-board video. He probably hasn't touched the drivers since he bought it.
 
Shampoo said:
Maybe we should update the Intel drivers and have a go at allocating more memory to the on-board video. He probably hasn't touched the drivers since he bought it.
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Would be worth doing that first, if that doesn't work give him the GTX 460 and get something like a R9 270 or R9 280.
 
If I wanted to stick with Nvidia, what card would be best in that £150 price bracket? Also a smaller form card would be ideal as my case isn't that big and the current card had to have some of it's housing sawn off just to fit. :P
 
Shampoo said:
If I wanted to stick with Nvidia, what card would be best in that £150 price bracket? Also a smaller form card would be ideal as my case isn't that big and the current card had to have some of it's housing sawn off just to fit. :P
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750 Ti is under-budget by about £20. 760 is over-budget by about £30.
 
My own thoughts would be that if you're going for a low-mid card like the 750 Ti, it's absolutely not worth spending an extra £20 for a premium brand like EVGA.

So in that case I'd go with either the MSI or the Gigabyte from those you linked.
 
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