Advice on a new graphics card please :)

George Woodford

George Woodford

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Hello, I am looking to purchase a new graphics card for my PC, the reason for this is to increase my fps as well as play fallout 4 (due to a patch, my current graphics card became outdated).

My specs are as follows:

CPU - AMD FX-4100
Mainboard - ASRock 970 Extreme 3
Memory - Corsair Vengeance DDR3 16gb
Graphics - AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series (fairly sure 7850)
I have a 500gb Samsung SSD and 1tb Seagate Barracuda acting as a backup.

Any advice and help would be much appreciated, Thank you :)
 
Thank you for the replies, I am very aware that my CPU is also in need of an upgrade haha. First port of call is the GPU though. Looking at around a budget of £150 for something that'll hopefully last me MINIMUM 3 years. Which out of those three above would be best? Thank you.
 
George Woodford said:
Looking at around a budget of £150 for something that'll hopefully last me MINIMUM 3 years.
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My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £330.48 (includes shipping: £10.50)​
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Get the 580 if you can stretch your budget as it's a lot faster. And go for 8 GB VRAM over 4 GB. Some games love VRAM.

Hmm... just a thought, but which PSU do you have? It's no good us recommending GPUs that will require a new PSU.
 
VRAM is super-fast memory local to the GPU. It's typically used as processing space and to store textures and things so they can be used very quickly. The more VRAM, the more textures you can store. Certain games, like modded Skyrim, love VRAM.
 
Quartz said:
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £330.48 (includes shipping: £10.50)
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Get the 580 if you can stretch your budget as it's a lot faster. And go for 8 GB VRAM over 4 GB. Some games love VRAM.

Hmm... just a thought, but which PSU do you have? It's no good us recommending GPUs that will require a new PSU.
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Its so worth spending the extra #20 for the RX580, IMO.
 
Quartz said:
VRAM is super-fast memory local to the GPU. It's typically used as processing space and to store textures and things so they can be used very quickly. The more VRAM, the more textures you can store. Certain games, like modded Skyrim, love VRAM.
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So this comes with the 580 or does it replace my current ram? (sorry not that great when things get too technical).
 
lltfdaniel said:
Not sure if it will last you 3 years but this graphics card is recommended by people for a good reason below.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £129.89 (includes shipping: £9.90)
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I wouldn't pay £130 for a 4gb edition, go on certain online auction sites and get a 2nd hand or the RX 470 4Gb for about £60/£70 (hair's width difference in performance the biggest difference being the power draw from the 570 is much higher). That's silly money for a card that offers great performance at 1080p.
 
Freddie1980 said:
I wouldn't pay £130 for a 4gb edition, go on certain online auction sites and get a 2nd hand or the RX 470 4Gb for about £60/£70 (hair's width difference in performance the biggest difference being the power draw from the 570 is much higher). That's silly money for a card that offers great performance at 1080p.
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You don’t even need to go on the bay if that’s your ‘online auction’ hint, wouldn’t trust then either way, people are selling 4gb rx 570 models from £60 on the private market.
 
The OC marketplace gets quoted a lot but is useless to new members who don't want to spam up to thousands of posts (not saying anyone else spammed, just that it's a lot of posts for a newbie to reach)
 
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