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Best sub £250 graphics card?

RanxZy said:
970 is not the card to go for brand new right now. Would much rather the 480 as it makes the 970 look it's age in Vulkan.
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And an overclocked 970 makes the 480 look old in everything else! And given Vulcan accounts for not even one game (doom runs perfectly well on OpenGL) and given there's not much more planned of Vulcan it's hardly the win your suggesting.
 
southernorth said:
But he specifically mentioned sub-£250, so 1060's are off the the table.
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Palit 1060 6Gb @ £239

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/pali...ddr5-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-03k-pl.html

or the Zotac @ 235.99

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/zota...ddr5-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-106-zt.html

Nothing second rate about either Zotac or Palit....

Hell you can even get an EVGA 1060 6GB in his budget!

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/evga...ddr5-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-30a-ea.html

Also lets face it, most of these cards have roughly the exact same performance regardless of brand or model.
 
X-Mikuru_Beam-X said:
Palit 1060 6Gb @ £239

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/pali...ddr5-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-03k-pl.html

or the Zotac @ 235.99

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/zota...ddr5-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-106-zt.html

Nothing second rate about either Zotac or Palit....

Hell you can even get an EVGA 1060 6GB in his budget!

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/evga...ddr5-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-30a-ea.html

Also lets face it, most of these cards have roughly the exact same performance regardless of brand or model.
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I would discount the EVGA one entirely. Having owned one, it thermal throttled easily and was very loud. Terrible. The Zotac has the same cooling solution, so likely suffers from similar issues. The Palit one looks good cooler wise, but the warranty/RMA doesn't appeal to me. I guess I have some specific standards: UK RMA, known for good customer service, good cooler etc. Unfortunately none below £250 meet all 3 requirements for me, which is a shame.

You can however get a great card for just a bit over £250.
 
southernorth said:
No idea if HIS has a UK rma centre, or even European. Does seem like a great card though.
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Hong Kong, I believe. When the 'Graphics Card Warranties' thread was still being regularly updated they typically had very slow turnaround times.

southernorth said:
I would discount the EVGA one entirely. Having owned one, it thermal throttled easily and was very loud. Terrible. The Zotac has the same cooling solution, so likely suffers from similar issues. The Palit one looks good cooler wise, but the warranty/RMA doesn't appeal to me. I guess I have some specific standards: UK RMA, known for good customer service, good cooler etc. Unfortunately none below £250 meet all 3 requirements for me, which is a shame.

You can however get a great card for just a bit over £250.
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Do you think you had a faulty card? Pascal does extremely well for power efficiency. I've been looking at reviews and it seems to be very well regarded for noise (link to review )

If I was choosing a card in this budget it would be the EVGA 1060, closely followed by the Powercolour Devil.

EVGA does have much better CS if that interests you.
 
^^ Your confusing two very easily confusable cards!

There's two evga small single fan 1060's. One has 'SC' or superclocked after it and has a much better cooling solution than it's cheaper brethren. The sc is very quiet in gaming me 0db when idle.
 
Brazo said:
^^ Your confusing two very easily confusable cards!

There's two evga small single fan 1060's. One has 'SC' or superclocked after it and has a much better cooling solution than it's cheaper brethren. The sc is very quiet in gaming me 0db when idle.
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Ah, I looked at the pictures and couldn't find any difference! Thankyou for pointing this out :)
 
Cleeecooo said:
Ah, I looked at the pictures and couldn't find any difference! Thankyou for pointing this out :)
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Unfortunately that's why I got the non-SC card first (am now very happy with my SC version though) they look so bloody similar! I thought Pascal would have been efficient enough that even the most basic cooling would have worked, but I was wrong sadly.
 
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millview53 said:
Thanks for all the healthy discussion, it was fun to read! In the end I opted to pay a little more and went for this one:

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asus...ddr5-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-40a-as.html

I will give you all some feedback once installed.

Thanks again.

Steve
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You probably should have just got a GTX1070 instead,as £300 is way too much for a GTX1060 6GB or RX480 8GB IMHO:

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/kfa2...ess-graphics-card-70nsh6dhk6vk-gx-090-kf.html
 
IvanDobskey said:
This is just personal preference. The build quality of the boards and heatsinks just always seems flimsy on amd cards to me.

Nvidia is my personal preference. The build quality on my evga 780 is outstanding.
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That's an odd statement to make considering that most companies such as MSI, Asus etc build there own boards meaning there's very little difference other than what chip is used on there premium cards.
My guess is you haven't owned decent aftermarket AMD cards, I currently have a Sapphire tri-x that in my opinion is built as good as, if not better than the 780 Classified I've also owned.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/msi-...ddr5-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-32j-ms.html

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/msi-...ddr5-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-32k-ms.html

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asus...ddr5-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-40h-as.html

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asus...ddr5-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-40b-as.html

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/giga...ddr5-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-18d-gi.html

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/giga...ddr5-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-18f-gi.html
 
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IvanDobskey said:
£300 for a 1060?? Why not pay an extra £50 and get a 1070? Very strange decision.
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How far does one keep going? I could pay an extra ....blah blah.... and get a ....blah blah....

This card has great reviews, is quoted as being one of the best 1060's available. I didn't really want to go to £350 and at £350 the brands are dubious (KFA, INNO3D). I would rather get a good 1060 than a crap 1070!


Each to their own! :p
 
millview53 said:
How far does one keep going? I could pay an extra ....blah blah.... and get a ....blah blah....

This card has great reviews, is quoted as being one of the best 1060's available. I didn't really want to go to £350 and at £350 the brands are dubious (KFA, INNO3D). I would rather get a good 1060 than a crap 1070!


Each to their own! :p
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But... just a little more and you could've gotten this :confused::confused::confused:
 
millview53 said:
How far does one keep going? I could pay an extra ....blah blah.... and get a ....blah blah....

This card has great reviews, is quoted as being one of the best 1060's available. I didn't really want to go to £350 and at £350 the brands are dubious (KFA, INNO3D). I would rather get a good 1060 than a crap 1070!


Each to their own! :p
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There's really hardly any difference in any of the aftermarket cards, they all use the exact same GPU. Cooling differs, but all aftermarkets will be better than reference design and the reference design isn't even that bad. I think the point people are making is, if you're going to spend £50 more than you need to on a 1060, why not stretch another £50 for a vastly superior card.

If you really can't stretch to £350 though, save yourself £50 and get a KFA2 1060 or something. £300 is just silly.
 
benjii said:
There's really hardly any difference in any of the aftermarket cards, they all use the exact same GPU. Cooling differs, but all aftermarkets will be better than reference design and the reference design isn't even that bad. I think the point people are making is, if you're going to spend £50 more than you need to on a 1060, why not stretch another £50 for a vastly superior card.

If you really can't stretch to £350 though, save yourself £50 and get a KFA2 1060 or something. £300 is just silly.
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This
 
millview53 said:
:D :D :D :D :D :D
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benjii said:
There's really hardly any difference in any of the aftermarket cards, they all use the exact same GPU. Cooling differs, but all aftermarkets will be better than reference design and the reference design isn't even that bad. I think the point people are making is, if you're going to spend £50 more than you need to on a 1060, why not stretch another £50 for a vastly superior card.

If you really can't stretch to £350 though, save yourself £50 and get a KFA2 1060 or something. £300 is just silly.
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I'd agree with that ^

In all seriousness, if you're up for saving £50, then I think either of these cards will be better value:
EVGA SC
Gigabyte Windforce. Both from good brands (I assume you meant good in terms of after-sales?)
 
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