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5850 Upgrade

Shaw

Shaw

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Hi all,

It is time to upgrade my trusty but ageing 5850 graphics card. I was going to upgrade to a Gigabyte 7950 windforce 3 just as I have always seemed to have had AMD/ATI cards.

I was looking at the 7950 as I thought it provided good value for money and also if down the line I upgrade monitor and go beyond my current 1920x1200 resolution I thought the extra memory may come in handy.

However I read a lot of things about issues with the 7950 and WoW and all though these are on older drivers I don't know if the issues were resolved with more recent drivers as I can't find anything to support it, I guess people only post when things are wrong.

WoW isn't the only game I play but does take up a lot of my gaming time so I do want something that can run it well.

So do I take the plunge and order the 7950 or would I be better with a similar priced NVIDIA card.

The rest of the system is:-
CPU: Intel Core i5 4670K Haswell Quad Core CPU Overclocked to 4.4GHz
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z87-D3HP (Socket 1150) DDR3 Motherboard
RAM: Kingston Genesis 8GB 1600MHz Dual Channel
 
Last I heard, I think Nvidia does perform better in WoW (I don't play WoW, so you may need to check that out). However, with a nice cpu like you have and a medium / medium high video card, regardless of brand, should be more than adequate since the game is cpu dependent.


If you end up going for Nvidia (cooler may be a bit noisey at ~ 60% +) :

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-017-KF&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=2294


AMD (again, possible a little noisey at higher fan %) :

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-203-MS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1673


Of course, all this depends on budget. :)
 
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You could get a gtx660 or 660ti or maybe wait for the GTX760ti to come out, dont think it should be long
 
The GTX 660 is a nice card and performs generally better than the 7850. Get a 660Ti if you can, but 660 if you don't wanna spend the extra money. And yes, WoW did have some issues with the 7850, I think (maybe) they've been fixed by now, but you should do some research to find that out. The GTX 660 should have no problems with WoW, on the other hand.
 
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