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What is the best card between a GTX 760 or a Radeon 280

rossmckay25

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IIRC, the 7970 (which was rebranded as a 280) was competing against the GTX 770. Therefore, the 280 is the better card.
 
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B Grade sucks imo

If you can afford the initial outlay, the £222 Powercolor 290 PCS+, sell the games individually-Civ-£15, Alien-£15, SC-£15, SEv3-£8=£169 fully guaranteed and cheaper than B Grade.

Better cooler on the PCS+ too.
 
tommybhoy said:
B Grade sucks imo

If you can afford the initial outlay, the £222 Powercolor 290 PCS+, sell the games individually-Civ-£15, Alien-£15, SC-£15, SEv3-£8=£169 fully guaranteed and cheaper than B Grade.

Better cooler on the PCS+ too.
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Would the card you mentioned be worth it if I don't have a 144mhz monitor?
 
tommybhoy said:
B Grade sucks imo

If you can afford the initial outlay, the £222 Powercolor 290 PCS+, sell the games individually-Civ-£15, Alien-£15, SC-£15, SEv3-£8=£169 fully guaranteed and cheaper than B Grade.

Better cooler on the PCS+ too.
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Yeah nice deal but your to close to GTX 970 money then, a choice of better free game but 290X level performance at lower power consumption.

With B Grade you get bargain card / price. First 3 months warranty with OCUK and the rest of manufacturer warranty. Nout wrong with that.

GTX 760 @ £99 is a bargain ! > http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BG-033-KF OP will save £50 off of his budget, back in the wallet or on beer !
 
In my mind the rough hierarchy of mid-range cards is this:

770>280X>280>760>270X

In truth the mid-range hasn't had a decent shake up since the 7850/7870 came along 2 years ago. Whilst the 960 is coming soon and will exceed the 770 for performance I suspect it'll be priced at £200.

So at £160 really I'd recommend the 280.
 
rossmckay25 said:
Would the card you mentioned be worth it if I don't have a 144mhz monitor?
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Yes, better than anything on the market at the price, keep the games, a lot of gaming for the money, sell the games and nothing can touch it for the price.

Boomstick777 said:
Yeah nice deal but your to close to GTX 970 money then, a choice of better free game but 290X level performance at lower power consumption.
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How a single Ubi title is better than the 3 from the list available to choose from on the AMD reward program and Civ-only Smarties have the answer.

Sell the titles on, £169 v £226(cheapest 970 -£22)=£57 difference, now call me cynical but I can't tell the difference in game between my 290 when I flick the switch and it turns into a full fat 290X.

*Edit*-Yeah, power draw is better, not quite the picture painted but better, I'll give you that, but it will take about 3 years@4 hours a day gaming to claw back that £57.


Boomstick777 said:
With B Grade you get bargain card / price. First 3 months warranty with OCUK and the rest of manufacturer warranty. Nout wrong with that.
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Outwith Evga-good luck with that, B-grade is used/refurbs, no manufacturer by UK law has to deal with anything:

Below is the original description for this product, any reference to warranty is to be ignored. Warranty for this item is 90 days as with all B Grade items.

B Grade items may have been used, have damaged packaging, missing accessories or a combination of these.

Some items may have scuff marks or slight scratches but should otherwise be an operable product.
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tommybhoy said:
B-grade is used/refurbs, no manufacturer by UK law has to deal with anything:
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Below is the original description for this product, any reference to warranty is to be ignored. Warranty for this item is 90 days as with all B Grade items.
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As far as I'm aware you are covered for first 3 months with OCUK. After this period any remaining warranty would be covered direct by the manufacturer.

Maybe a mod could confirm?

So a newer card like the £99 GTX 760 for example should have whatever was left from original 2/3 year warranty.

I would feel safer buying used / refurbished from OCUK over somewhere like Ebay, as if it was DOA you could return without hassle and know that you're covered. Plus obvious problems would likely appear within the first 3 months of use anyway.
 
I don't think they can guarantee the manufactures will honour the warranty. That's why they only list them as 90days OCUK.
If the card doesn't show signs of failure in those 90 days, you're more than likely fine. I like Bgrade, only had 1 bad apple so far and that was a 780 i bought the other day, seems like faulty VRAM so sent to back for DSR.

Not bad, 1 item that's faulty out of god knows how many.
 
I bought a B grade MB-MSI refurb, it was DOA.

Nothing second hand is covered by warranty in the UK out with what is stated in the description.

No offence to whether anyone comes in and confirm anything but I'm pretty sure the product page would state clearly that the remainder of the warranty would be covered direct by the manufacturer if that was the case.
 
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I don't think they can guarantee the manufactures will honour the warranty. That's why they only list them as 90days OCUK.
If the card doesn't show signs of failure in those 90 days, you're more than likely fine. I like Bgrade, only had 1 bad apple so far and that was a 780 i bought the other day, seems like faulty VRAM so sent to back for DSR.

Not bad, 1 item that's faulty out of god knows how many.
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Yeah I remember back in the day picking up a Gigabyte UD5 X79 mobo for £85 'B Grade' while they were still selling for about £220+ brand new. It was fine.

I'm pretty sure someone on here said first 90 days with OCUK then remainder of whatever is left with manufacturer, would be good if a mod could comment on this?
 
Boomstick777 said:
Yeah I remember back in the day picking up a Gigabyte UD5 X79 mobo for £85 'B Grade' while they were still selling for about £220+ brand new. It was fine.

I'm pretty sure someone on here said first 90 days with OCUK then remainder of whatever is left with manufacturer, would be good if a mod could comment on this?
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A mod wont help, you need someone who works for OCUK to confirm.
I remember Gibbo saying a while back that they can't guarantee the manufacturers will honour the warranty or something along those lines.

The Sale of Goods Act would still be in place as you've bought from a retailer, hence the 90 days. After that it's in your hands.
 
I agree that the 280 is a better choice than the 760. Getting a 290 and selling the games to make it ~160 is even better, but requires upfront cash and hassle selling games which I know I couldn't be bothered with.

It might be worth considering R9 285 as well, takes you to £175 but means XDMA crossfire for the future, trueaudio, etc.
 
tommybhoy said:
I bought a B grade MB-MSI refurb, it was DOA.

Nothing second hand is covered by warranty in the UK out with what is stated in the description.

No offence to whether anyone comes in and confirm anything but I'm pretty sure the product page would state clearly that the remainder of the warranty would be covered direct by the manufacturer if that was the case.
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Refurbished items sold by a shop are covered by the Sale of Good Act.

I've successfully used SOGA to have a refurb laptop replaced free of charge when it failed after 13 months.
 
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