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7770, Should I?

Nox25

Nox25

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Hey I am looking to upgrade my GPU, but on a very limited budget (need to stick to the £100 mark).

At the min I only play WoW on the PC, but it would be nice to play a few more games if I wanted too. I currently have a extremely old 8800GTX and ever since the release of Mists its been really struggling and hitting temps of 105, and its starting to worry me it might be harming the PC...

I am looking at the Sapphire HD 7770 GHz Vapor-X OC Edition 1024MB GDDR5, and the only real job I defo need it to fulfill is to give me a constant 60fps in raids (doesnt have to be on ultra settings, medium I am used to anyway)

It would be going with a 2500k and 8gb ram, would the above GPU be a big step up from what I am currently using? Is it the best card for my budget? Would it be able to do what I need it too?
 
Under £100, that is the best your getting though it's not very good value for money, consider the 7850 a good 50%-70% better than the 7770.

As the 7850's (1GB variant) is avalible for £130 and the 2Gb for £150, it seem a bit of a shame..

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Hey thanks for the replies, couple of questions though, if I manage to get the extra £££ for a 7850 specifically for wow would it matter between the 1GB or 2GB? Im guessing it might for other game, but I am just trying to cater for WoW everything else is secondary.

Also I see people saying when it comes to WoW, it "should" be Nvidia all the way, is there still any truth to that or not? (Never had AMD before)
 
The trouble with Nvidia is, they are more expensive. This limits your options even more. Look to the second hand market for a 470/480/560TI if you want an Nvidia card. Not sure on what favours WoW, as it isn't a game I am interested in.
 
Nox25 said:
At the min I only play WoW on the PC

the only real job I defo need it to fulfill is to give me a constant 60fps in raids (doesnt have to be on ultra settings, medium I am used to anyway)
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I'm afraid for raid you would still be CPU limited rather than graphic.

The problem with WOW is that it only uses pretty much only ONE CPU core for rendering, and even with the fastest CPU today would still not able to hold solid 60fps. But the i5 2500K (plus overclock) would most likely be a good upgrade to whatever you are using at the moment.
 
Nox25 said:
Hey I am looking to upgrade my GPU, but on a very limited budget (need to stick to the £100 mark).

At the min I only play WoW on the PC, but it would be nice to play a few more games if I wanted too. I currently have a extremely old 8800GTX and ever since the release of Mists its been really struggling and hitting temps of 105, and its starting to worry me it might be harming the PC...

I am looking at the Sapphire HD 7770 GHz Vapor-X OC Edition 1024MB GDDR5, and the only real job I defo need it to fulfill is to give me a constant 60fps in raids (doesnt have to be on ultra settings, medium I am used to anyway)

It would be going with a 2500k and 8gb ram, would the above GPU be a big step up from what I am currently using? Is it the best card for my budget? Would it be able to do what I need it too?
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I can confirm the HD7770 is a solid card on a budget. They overclock well and with that overclock can easily surpass a 6850 in performance.
 
Bacon? said:
A 7770 cannot easily surpass if at all 6850 performance.
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http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/536?vs=539

At stock settings both cards trade blows in todays games, though maybe the 6850 is the slightly faster card. Once clocked the 7770 is faster than a stock 6850 comfortably.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18477503

If you can beat my 3dmark score with a stock 6850 then i will retract my comment. :)

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=23530523&postcount=12

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/5518864

"P5186 with AMD Radeon HD 7770(1x) and Intel Core i7-2700K Processor
Graphics Score 4833
Physics Score 8861
Combined Score 4830

Looking around at reviews and other HD7770 users i appear to have a card that is a average memory overclocker. Only able to get the memory up to 1250 but i see others getting up to and beyond 1500. Core was at 1290 memory at 1250. Memory is holding my card back from more. Just another 25-50mhz on the memory and this card will easily surpass 5k."
 
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Comparing stock results is rather fruitless given that both cards will / should be overclocked. I'll run 3D mark and test my overclocked results. I can get my 650 to:

1100 mhz coreclock
1227 mhz memory clock
 
Bacon? said:
Comparing stock results is rather fruitless given that both cards will / should be overclocked. I'll run 3D mark and test my overclocked results. I can get my 650 to:

1100 mhz coreclock
1227 mhz memory clock
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I said an overclocked HD7770 can surpass a stock 6850 which it can easily. I've already compared results to a 6850 owner and he confirmed the HD7770 was 20% odd faster than his 6850. So my comment stands and is valid. :)
 
Bacon? said:
Comparing stock results is rather fruitless given that both cards will / should be overclocked. I'll run 3D mark and test my overclocked results. I can get my 650 to:

1100 mhz coreclock
1227 mhz memory clock
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I'll have to try and find my 3D11 link.
But according to the 3D11 thread mine managed 4k Graphics score, this was with 980 on the core 1300 mem.

I was shocked at how well the 7770 done, and i gladly ate humble pie when Matt proved me wrong :D
 
Tonester0011 said:
I'll have to try and find my 3D11 link.
But according to the 3D11 thread mine managed 4k Graphics score, this was with 980 on the core 1300 mem.

I was shocked at how well the 7770 done, and i gladly ate humble pie when Matt proved me wrong :D
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Thanks for chirping in Tone.

The Hd7770 is not to be under estimated once clocked. Like all AMD 7xxx cards it scales well (though not as well as 79xx cards) with overclocking. In most current DX11 games it beats a 6850 with both cards at stock settings, though its not by much. I will grant at stock the 6850 is generally the faster in my opinion due to the 128bit bus on the 7770 but once you overclock the 7770 it catches up.
 
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LtMatt said:
Thanks for chirping in Tone.

The Hd7770 is not to be under estimated once clocked. Like all AMD 7xxx cards it scales well (though not as well as 79xx cards) with overclocking. In most current DX11 games it beats a 6850 with both cards at stock settings, though its not by much. I will grant at stock the 6850 is generally the faster in my opinion due to the 128bit bus on the 7770 but once you overclock the 7770 it catches up.
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Found my score.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=22908510&postcount=1339

980/1150 (not 1300 like i thought, i think that's one of my other 6850s that do that)

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/4573393
 
gregster said:
The trouble with Nvidia is, they are more expensive. This limits your options even more. Look to the second hand market for a 470/480/560TI if you want an Nvidia card. Not sure on what favours WoW, as it isn't a game I am interested in.
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Hmm. I wouldn't recommend buying any GPU with 1.2 or 1gb vram now.

Better off saving the extra £50 as pointed out and getting a 7850.
 
ALXAndy said:
Hmm. I wouldn't recommend buying any GPU with 1.2 or 1gb vram now.

Better off saving the extra £50 as pointed out and getting a 7850.
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Thats true but in this situation i don't think that a concern.. If a 8800 has been keeping them happy hit a tiny bump (in the form of VRAM limit) isn't going to prove a big issue..

The 7850 would be my choice, there are *b grade* 2GB cards for £130, thats a Bargain: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BG-307-GI
 
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