Advice On Replacement Card

[Vern1961]

My current card as per sig is a VTX ATI Radeon 5770 1024Mb. Still gives sterling service but beginning to show its age. Looking to make a bit of an upgrade switching back to Nvidia in the process. Budget is around £130 so probably going to be a slightly older card. Needs to be able to cope reasonably well with most recent games such as Skyrim and Far Cry 3. Guess I'm probably looking at something from the 560 range though OCUK don't seem to have many of these for sale any more.

Any advice appreciated, thanks.

Would this be okay:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-206-EA&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=2392

Looks like an easy fit in the case too.

 

[Doomedspeed]

The 650 is a good card, id personally stretch for a 650ti or a 660. The 660's are now coming under £150..

 

[arc@css]

An older cpu like that will hold back most modern cards, so I'd be inclined to overclock it as much as you can.

 

[se_vietboi]

A CPU like that won't be enough for a card like a 6850/460. They both fit in your budget though. There's a B grade 7850 and 570 for sale too each £109.99.

 

[Vern1961]

Went ahead and bought the EVGA - up and running okay though note comments about the rest of the system being a bottleneck. I did attempt an upgrade last year but botched it, may try again in the autumn.

Only caveat I would say about the card is the HDMI output is mini-HDMI format, which means if you want to use HDMI you need a mini-HDMI to HDMI lead rather than a bog standard male to male HDMI lead.