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What GFX Card for around £160

Sven69

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Long Time lurker here, Son wants a PC for Christmas, sort of got a spec mapped out here http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=28814153&postcount=10 Narrowed it down to either

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £168.89
(includes shipping: £9.90)
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My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £179.89
(includes shipping: £9.90)
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Which is the best out of the 2, or something similar spec with best bang for buck, dont really want to spend more than £700 on the whole build.

Sven
 
Try and wait for the 380x, is it? that will shake up the mid range and probably drop the prices on other cards around that price.
 
Out of those two - I would go for the Nvidia card, its got a higher core and memory clock.

Well done on going for 4gb, 2gb is a bit redundant now.
 
ALXAndy said:
I had a FX 8320 that would do 5.3ghz. Does that mean it was better than a 5960x?
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This ^^^

In one of nashathedog's reviews the 960 was running at 1392Mhz and yet the 990Mhz 380 still came out on top.

Now if anyone thinks the Nvidia card is better "because of massive overclocking" they are mistaken, whats written on the box is irrelevant, as the reviewer rightfully said because Nvidia GPU's run at whatever speed they can. (they overclock themselves)

With that said the 960 was already running at near 1400Mhz and it was still a bit slower than the 380 which is clocked to 990Mhz.
On top of that the one which actually has the most potential overclocking head-room is the 380, quite a bit more.

In which ever way one looks at it the 380 is faster, significantly faster.
 
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380 is better and if you chose to spend more (not sure why FixupSellon added an extra 50% on top of your budget) then 390 is best choice then too.

As others pointed out it could be worth waiting to see about the 380x
 
The 380x is due this week (I think), I'm sure NVidia will respond with the 960ti, both of these will probably cause some shake up in the price bracket you are looking at.
Bottom line wait a week if you can.
 
Insanties_birth said:
380 is better and if you chose to spend more (not sure why FixupSellon added an extra 50% on top of your budget) then 390 is best choice then too.

As others pointed out it could be worth waiting to see about the 380x
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because he said £700 budget and without knowing the rest of the build i just put a card under the assumption it might be flexible, i wouldve just suggested a R7 360, but thats not making the most of £160 ;)
 
FixupSellon said:
because he said £700 budget and without knowing the rest of the build i just put a card under the assumption it might be flexible, i wouldve just suggested a R7 360, but thats not making the most of £160 ;)
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Yeah 700 for total build but still 160 in the title for gpu. I agree there's going to be some room for flexibility but nearly £100 is pushing it a little maybe :D

I see why though, nice performance difference.
 
Insanties_birth said:
Yeah 700 for total build but still 160 in the title for gpu. I agree there's going to be some room for flexibility but nearly £100 is pushing it a little maybe :D

I see why though, nice performance difference.
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ha yeah i know, but a 970 version wouldve been too much ;)..

tbh depending on his build he probably doesnt need more than £160 worth or even £160 itself anyways, it does seem a tough competitive price range i must say.
 
ALXAndy said:
I had a FX 8320 that would do 5.3ghz. Does that mean it was better than a 5960x?
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Yeah wrong assumption. Had a wee look at some comparison sites and agree with the posts above about the AMD.

Whats the rest of your build OP as a matter of interest?
 
final spec will be as below courtesy of Danny75, just wasn't sure of GFX card could have been one of the two I initially listed. I could wait a week as the PC will be for my Son for Christmas. Does it look of and will it work. Should imagine main Games will be Fallout and COD, that's what he's hammering at the moment on Xbox

My basket at Overclockers UK:
1 x Microsoft Windows 10 32/64-Bit - USB Pen Drive - Retail (KW9-00017)= £85.99
1 x Samsung 250GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E250B/EU)= £65.99
1 x SuperFlower FX 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply - Black= £49.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4590 3.30GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail= £155.99
1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 960 OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-N960OC-4GD)= £158.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97P-D3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard= £61.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAED38G2133HC11ADC0= £38.99
1 x NZXT Source 340 Midi-Tower Case- Black Window= £59.99
1 x Xigmatek Apache III CD903 CPU-Cooler - 92mm= £10.99

Total: £702.11
(includes shipping: £13.20)

Sven
 
Sorry, to hijack, but its kind of relevant.

Im looking for the same and I know that graphics benchmarks aren't supposed to be the be all and end all, but the R9 380 scores lower than a R9 290x and much lower than a GTX 780 or 970. Is this really going to make a difference in gaming?
 
mejinks said:
Sorry, to hijack, but its kind of relevant.

Im looking for the same and I know that graphics benchmarks aren't supposed to be the be all and end all, but the R9 380 scores lower than a R9 290x and much lower than a GTX 780 or 970. Is this really going to make a difference in gaming?
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Yes depending on what games you play .

Example

The Witcher, at 1080p a gtx 980ti is only geting 60fps on ultra detail now that card is £500+ so get the best card you can afford.
 
Sven69 said:
final spec will be as below courtesy of Danny75, just wasn't sure of GFX card could have been one of the two I initially listed. I could wait a week as the PC will be for my Son for Christmas. Does it look of and will it work. Should imagine main Games will be Fallout and COD, that's what he's hammering at the moment on Xbox

My basket at Overclockers UK:
1 x Microsoft Windows 10 32/64-Bit - USB Pen Drive - Retail (KW9-00017)= £85.99
1 x Samsung 250GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E250B/EU)= £65.99
1 x SuperFlower FX 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply - Black= £49.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4590 3.30GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail= £155.99
1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 960 OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-N960OC-4GD)= £158.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97P-D3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard= £61.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAED38G2133HC11ADC0= £38.99
1 x NZXT Source 340 Midi-Tower Case- Black Window= £59.99
1 x Xigmatek Apache III CD903 CPU-Cooler - 92mm= £10.99

Total: £702.11
(includes shipping: £13.20)

Sven
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The GPU is a reference blower GPU, it could be a little noisy.

The SSD is all well and good but with 250GB of storage it will soon fill up, the average game is 30GB, Starwars Battlefront could end up to being 70GB with all the expansion packs.

I would go for a standard 1TB HDD for £40

I would use the £20 saving from the SSD to get the faster Asus 380.
 
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