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Best budget card?

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What's the best sub £100 gfx card available right now? I currently have an ATi X1950 Pro, which cost me about £80 & I'm looking to replace it with todays equivelently priced card.
 
A new or second hand 4890 would be great in that budget, if you can find a 5770 close to £100 that would be slightly slower but cooler, less power and DX11 (not that a 5770 will ever be able to run any DX11 game with DX11 effects turned on :D )
 
So a 5770 doesn't look like a good choice then - not really powerful enough for the future & costs quite a bit more than the 4850 that Raven recommended. The 4850 looks very well priced & should be quite a step up in temrs of power over my current X1950?
 
I went from X1950XT to HD 4850 and was blown away :P
HD 4870 is your best bet in terms of price/performance if you buy it from MM
 
yup in all the bench's on average it was 7% faster than the 260gtx
which you'll be lucky to pick up second hand for less than £100
so your gettin 7% more performance
for 40% less money !!!
i personally am a bit of a Nvidia fan boy dont know why just am but even i could not argue with that so what is not to like ? :)
 
Stretch for a 5770, its the best bang-for-buck card this gen. If not you should probably consider a 4870 or if you're lucky a 4890, performance wise they are still decent and dx11 is in its infancy at the moment.




- Ordokai
 
agree

yep gotta agree with the 5770, but get the XFX 5770 from the OVERCLOCKERS shop, good deal and the XFX version has a little more oomph than the competition, +25mhz i believe on the core and +400mhz on the GDDR, ;)
 
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