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best bang for buck gpu
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Agreed!
TBH it's getting to the stage where the 8800GTX is selling for near £75 too - and that is a great card!
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4870 and it should be performance for pound as we do not use Dollars here.
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My old 8800 GTS G92 was a really good card.
Quick run through based on a budget:
£0-60 - Difficult one tbh as most super budget cards will be a bit pants. In this price range you may find (new) 8800GT 256mb cards which are fine for low resolution monitors and 8800GS cards which are perfect if you fold and not too bad at gaming. The HD4650 is also worth a look although it is considerably slower than both the previously mentioned cards.
£60-70 - 9600GT (It is faster in every situation than the HD4670 so the latter card (4670) for gaming at least is pointless at its current pricing).
£70-100 - If you can find one a 8800GT/9800GT offers probably the best performance per £ in this segment. A HD4830 is also an option here although from doing a bit of digging I have found the 9800GT to be available for a good £20 less, which considering the performance difference isn't to be overlooked (also in this price range if you fold the 4830 wouldn't even be on the radar).
£100-150 - HD4850 or 9800GTX+. Whilst you can find the HD4850 for less than the 9800 it would depend on which make you actually prefer as their performance is very similar. Personally I would go for the 9800GTX+ as I fold however if purely gaming than the HD4850 is the better (its cheaper!) option here.
£150-£200 - If you can find one (which wouldn't take long) a HD4870 1gb is easily the best option in this price range. Thanks to the price increases most if not all GTX260's are now more than this and tbh not worth the extra. Also given this price increase I would also find it hard to justify anything above this card apart from the X2 variant as put simply no other card offers enough of a performance jump to warrant its higher price. If the pricing situation changes and the Maxcore variants of the GTX260 come down into this price range then they should also be considered.
Please note - all of the above assumes buying new. There are second hand deals to be had (although not many looking in the MM) however given the recent price hikes (which has filtered through to people asking more for the second hand cards) a lot of the previous 'deals' don't look so advantageous.
Hope this was helpful.
£0-60 - Difficult one tbh as most super budget cards will be a bit pants. In this price range you may find (new) 8800GT 256mb cards which are fine for low resolution monitors and 8800GS cards which are perfect if you fold and not too bad at gaming. The HD4650 is also worth a look although it is considerably slower than both the previously mentioned cards.
£60-70 - 9600GT (It is faster in every situation than the HD4670 so the latter card (4670) for gaming at least is pointless at its current pricing).
£70-100 - If you can find one a 8800GT/9800GT offers probably the best performance per £ in this segment. A HD4830 is also an option here although from doing a bit of digging I have found the 9800GT to be available for a good £20 less, which considering the performance difference isn't to be overlooked (also in this price range if you fold the 4830 wouldn't even be on the radar).
£100-150 - HD4850 or 9800GTX+. Whilst you can find the HD4850 for less than the 9800 it would depend on which make you actually prefer as their performance is very similar. Personally I would go for the 9800GTX+ as I fold however if purely gaming than the HD4850 is the better (its cheaper!) option here.
£150-£200 - If you can find one (which wouldn't take long) a HD4870 1gb is easily the best option in this price range. Thanks to the price increases most if not all GTX260's are now more than this and tbh not worth the extra. Also given this price increase I would also find it hard to justify anything above this card apart from the X2 variant as put simply no other card offers enough of a performance jump to warrant its higher price. If the pricing situation changes and the Maxcore variants of the GTX260 come down into this price range then they should also be considered.
Please note - all of the above assumes buying new. There are second hand deals to be had (although not many looking in the MM) however given the recent price hikes (which has filtered through to people asking more for the second hand cards) a lot of the previous 'deals' don't look so advantageous.
Hope this was helpful.