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In a pickle.....albeit a nice one :D

Jinjur

Jinjur

Jinjur

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okey dokey....

So i sold my GTX770 and got super money for it.....and after 10 years with my current employer.....i have been given 110 quid (will have to be an ocuk voucher) so i have a budget of 300 for a new graphics card. I know i will be stung on delivery to NI too :(

OBV....its GTX970 of some form and i am currently torn between 300 quids worth of MSI 4G, Giga G1 and EVGA SSC.

After much deliberation, i have noted that the Giga (length) and MSI (width) will JUST fit in my fractal case. EVGA obviously less of an issue.

I really dont know which to pick and do certainly appreciate that the MSI is a bit cheaper than the other 2.

Any...and all help will be appreciated peeps.

Oh...i game at 1080 and mostly play BF4.

Just to clarify.....i thought i could wait for a bit to see what the market did so i attempted to play BF4 on my onboard graphics......so now this is URGENT. FLOL!


Cheers
J
 
Grab yourself a MSI or Gigabyte card.

Both clock well and pretty much silent.

I have a MSI which boosts to 1500 core and 8000 memory for gaming and in BF4 with high settings averages 120 fps on a 2560x1080 monitor. Medium settings and it doesn't drop below 200fps.

Fantastic card for the price.

Having come from a 290 with Mantle I can easily say the 970 is much nicer to live with. Quieter, cooler and Mantle only worked 20% of the time for me. Even then the performance was lower than I expected. Having to run low to medium settings to get solid fps over 100.
 
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Oh and I forgot to mention my GPU temp is around 63 degrees when gaming on the auto fan curve.

Setting it manually to something like 90% drops the temps further to 55-59 degrees when gaming. It's also still stupidly quiet at that speed.
 
Ok guys.....thanks for the quick replies......guess i will just hang tight for the msi (although the red offends me....lol)
 
delivery is a real pain though.....is there no discount for NI members on delivery? I appreciate it cant be free but anything?

J
 
Jinjur said:
Ok guys.....thanks for the quick replies......guess i will just hang tight for the msi (although the red offends me....lol)
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Website says they are due in on Thursday (I've got two on pre-order - wouldn't be suprised if they all get taken up by pre-orders though).
 
In honesty....I am a green fanboi tho.....I just can't stand catalyst and have never had an issue with green
 
Jinjur said:
delivery is a real pain though.....is there no discount for NI members on delivery? I appreciate it cant be free but anything?

J
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Only on smaller less bulky items. But tbf ocuk's delivery charge to here is cheaper than most other English based etailers I've used.
 
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