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Best bang for buck GPU upgrade for me or not worth it due to bottleneck??

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I've not upgraded my PC for ages but am tempted to try Arma 3 and am afraid that my current rig won't be up to it!

My question is, is there a decent improvement to be had in just going for another GPU or will my CPU be a bottleneck??

Specs in my sig.
 
OLDPHART said:
Hi, plus overclock your CPU as well A 7970 AMD or 770 NVidia, to very good GPU's and not to dear.
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Jumper118 said:
overclock your cpu to 4.2-4 on that cooler then get a 270/280x
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I've not dabbled in overclocking for quite some time so it looks like I'll need to do some reading again!

Regards the GPU, I didn't really want to be spending more than around £100 - although I'd have my 460 to sell - not sure what it would be worth though!

Is there a recognised "best" card at this sort of price point that would be a decent improvement over my 460 (been out of the loop on graphics cards for quite some time!) or will I need to be spending a lot more??
 
I've had a brief look at one or two of the cards suggested and the ATi R9 270 looks to be about my limit cost-wise (assuming that I can still get anything for my 460 that is!)

Couple of quick questions though...

1) What is the "equivalent power" nVidia card to the 270?
2) This is obviously buying new - what sort of card should I be aiming for at a similar price pointy in the members market??

Thanks...
 
I see nVidia are still doing a sterling job of confusing people (well, me anyway) with their product numbering! (ie. a 670 being better than a 760!) :p

I'll have a snoop around on the MM for a 670/680 - are there any particular models I should look for or avoid??

Also, will my PSU still hold up with one of these cards?? (in sig.)
 
Thanks for all the advice guys! Got myself a GTX 670 on the way and I'm going to look into overclocking my CPU too!

Although having picked up Arma 3 today on the Steam sale, my existing rig is doing a cracking job of running it! (albeit on the auto detect settings it's decided on "standard" so it will be interesting to see what the recommended settings are when I get the new card in there!)

Thanks again for all the pointers guys!
 
Hi

Slight thread drift but...

I have the same CPU/board/cooler. As already stated, should easily do between 4.2/4.4 even on auto settings. For a very simple OC:-

- Change turbo values to something like 4.2/4.2/4.2/4.2
- Disable OverSpeeed Protection.
- Increase Long duration power limit to 160 and Short Duration power limit to 190 (otherwise your CPU wont hold the OC steady).
and leave everything else on auto.

Doing it the above way keeps all the green features but your CPU will now clock up to 4.2. You can try increasing this to 4.3 or 4.4 and obviously stress test with something like Prime95.

I personally would not bother fiddling with other settings unless you want to go higher. Though obviously up to you.

PS. With your new GPU, your system is now pretty much identical to mine. And I find that at 1080 on a single monitor, that pretty much all games are playable at, or very close to the highest graphical settings. Good luck.

PPS. These are cracking motherboards.
 
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