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£120 budget for GPU solution.

MMOGameAddict

MMOGameAddict

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Looking for a GPU which will squeeze the last ounce of power out of my old system and able to play majority of games in the next 5 years.

The budget is £120 for the card.

Been running a Core Quad 2.5Ghz with a entry level Geforce GT 220 for 5 years now and most F2P MMO's are demanding more GPU power. Games like: Tera and Planetside 2.

I can't upgrade the current ram size of 4GB since 2x 4Gb modules @ 677/800 cost well over £120. So doing so is pointless.

I plan on building a future proof computer soon. The specs will be 3.8GHz+ I3/I5 system with 32 GB 2133MHz RAM. This will be when 5th Gen CPU's come out.

So the GPU has to be something which is durable.
I have a cool-master centurion case and my current motherboard is a mATX G41-M7.
 
Shame you don't have MM access. A 2nd hand 280X would be right on budget. A lot of barely-used ex-mining cards around for that price.

Best you'll get for that money I think.

If you buy new then whatever you get will already struggle with today's games at 1080p.

One thing is certain. A £120 card will not last 5 years. No way, no how.
 
FoxEye said:
Shame you don't have MM access. A 2nd hand 280X would be right on budget. A lot of barely-used ex-mining cards around for that price.

Best you'll get for that money I think.

If you buy new then whatever you get will already struggle with today's games at 1080p.

One thing is certain. A £120 card will not last 5 years. No way, no how.
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Depends what games you play. I've played World of Warcraft @ 120 FPS on a 6 year old card.

We don't all play BF4 you know :D
 
I'd also advise you to definitely go i5 with your future build as quad-core chips are much better for gaming than dual-core.

Also you can make sure you'll afford this by not wasting your money on 32GB of 2133 MHz memory.

For straight gaming, nothing needs more than 8GB (I believe the most demanding game itself uses 5GB at the moment), and also systems with dedicated graphics cards (i.e. an Intel CPU with a separate graphics card) show essentially no gain in gaming performance going above 1600 or 1866 memory. So basically the absolute most money you'd want to spend on RAM at the moment is 16GB of 1866 MHz to make yourself very comfortable with future-proofing, and you only need 8GB of 1600 MHz RAM.
 
MMOGameAddict said:
Looking for a GPU which will ... play majority of games in the next 5 years.

The budget is £120 for the card.
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MMOGameAddict said:
Depends what games you play. I've played World of Warcraft @ 120 FPS on a 6 year old card.

We don't all play BF4 you know :D
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As per your OP, you said you wanted to play "the majority of games in the next 5 years", not just WoW :p

So which is it?

A £120 card will not achieve your original ambition.
 
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