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Best card for around £200?

Azarathal

Azarathal

Azarathal

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Heya guys, I hate for my first post to be a question but I thought it'd be better to post here than OCN (as they're us based and don't know the uk market)

Within a week or so I'll have around £200 to play with, looking for a card I won't need to upgrade for a while.

Current card is a 4890Hd, cost me about £200 when it first came out and is still going strong, only wanting to replace it because I've built a new pc and this is the only original componant.

Current rig is;
i5 2500k @ 4.4 1.336v
4gb 1600mhz 7-8-7-20 Corsair XMS3
Msi p67a-g45
4890HD.

I play games such as Rift, Crysis2 and going to be getting more of the newer titles soon, using a 42" hd tv as a monitor at 1920x1200 so I'd like a HDMI port if possible.

Thanks guys, Mikey.
 
Azarathal said:
Heya guys, I hate for my first post to be a question but I thought it'd be better to post here than OCN (as they're us based and don't know the uk market)

Within a week or so I'll have around £200 to play with, looking for a card I won't need to upgrade for a while.

Current card is a 4890Hd, cost me about £200 when it first came out and is still going strong, only wanting to replace it because I've built a new pc and this is the only original componant.

Current rig is;
i5 2500k @ 4.4 1.336v
4gb 1600mhz 7-8-7-20 Corsair XMS3
Msi p67a-g45
4890HD.

I play games such as Rift, Crysis2 and going to be getting more of the newer titles soon, using a 42" hd tv as a monitor at 1920x1200 so I'd like a HDMI port if possible.

Thanks guys, Mikey.
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get yourself a 570 from the refurb store
 
If you are still ok with your 4890's performance, you best wait a bit longer as next gen AMD card are going to be launched next month...if the rumours are true.

The last thing you want to get a 6950 2GB now, and with it become outdated card just one month later.
 
rossgreenlees said:
get yourself a 570 from the refurb store
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Would that be OCUK's refurb store?

easyrider said:
6950 2gb for that price or a 570
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This is where I have a dilema, which card to actually go for.

Marine-RX179 said:
If you are still ok with your 4890's performance, you best wait a bit longer as next gen AMD card are going to be launched next month...if the rumours are true.

The last thing you want to get a 6950 2GB now, and with it become outdated card just one month later.
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The 7xxx range is going to be a lot more expensive isnt it? Am I better off waiting just for the price drop of the 6series?

You guys are quick :P Thanks for the help so far
 
Marine-RX179 said:
If you are still ok with your 4890's performance, you best wait a bit longer as next gen AMD card are going to be launched next month...if the rumours are true.

The last thing you want to get a 6950 2GB now, and with it become outdated card just one month later.
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I don't think there will be any high-end 28nm cards next month. I guess it'll be 28nm pipe cleaners first (roughly the same performance as 6950 but with lower power consumption), if there will be any.

Latest rumours didn't say good things about the 28nm process at TSMC or GF.
 
Thanks for clearing that up Harmony, it looks like the 6950 is around the best bet for me, seems to wipe the floor on the 570 by comparing them on ocuk.

How would it compare to my 4890? My original budget was about £130-150 but apparently the cards in the range would be comparative to my current card.
 
Azarathal said:
Thanks for clearing that up Harmony, it looks like the 6950 is around the best bet for me, seems to wipe the floor on the 570 by comparing them on ocuk.

How would it compare to my 4890? My original budget was about £130-150 but apparently the cards in the range would be comparative to my current card.
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would you care to point me to where you've read that that? as from the benchmarks I've seen the gtx570 is faster than the 6950 overall, even bettering the 6970 in some cases.
 
Azarathal said:
Thanks for clearing that up Harmony, it looks like the 6950 is around the best bet for me, seems to wipe the floor on the 570 by comparing them on ocuk.

How would it compare to my 4890? My original budget was about £130-150 but apparently the cards in the range would be comparative to my current card.
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Well don't hate me on that if 6950 2GB becomes obsolete next month because AMD or nVidia manages to give us a surprise with 28nm products :D

If you are dedicated to play Crysis 2, then you'd better go with an nVidia's card, because the DX11 patch abused Tessellation. However a GTX570 with 1.25GB vram is not a good option for SLI in the future due to vram shortage.

Edit: just skimmed through the introduction of your motherboard, which seems not supporting SLI if I'm correct. In such case, an HD6950 2GB is the best bet, because you would still be able to get another 6950 2GB for CrossfireX in the future if needed.

For CrossfireX I recommend reference coolers.
 
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I'm not going to SLI, I'd need to buy a new PSU for it which isn't happening.

Fowler I was going by the clock speeds, memory speeds etc listed.

If anyone could find me benchmarks of the 570 / 6950-70 and benchmarks of a 4890 I'd be very pleased :)
 
2x 6950 CF = 473W for the whole system (according to guru3d review).

Your motherboard has got a reasonable PCI-E spacing for CrossfireX, and 6950 2GB x 2 will destroy a single GTX570 for sure. (even beats a single GTX590)


Try this: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/293?vs=306

It's just a rough comparison. They used different versions of drivers so some benchmarks are not trusty.
 
Azarathal said:
Thanks for clearing that up Harmony, it looks like the 6950 is around the best bet for me, seems to wipe the floor on the 570 by comparing them on ocuk.
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I can tell you it doesn't.

I have owned both and the GTX 570 is the better card at 1080p by far.

I have been testing today and its beating my last card 6950 flashed to 6970 by some margin both in benchmarks and games.

The GTX 570 is the better card but its more expensive
 
harmony said:
2x 6950 CF = 473W for the whole system (according to guru3d review).

Your motherboard has got a reasonable PCI-E spacing for CrossfireX, and 6950 2GB x 2 will destroy a single GTX570 for sure. (even beats a single GTX590)


Try this: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/293?vs=306

It's just a rough comparison. They used different versions of drivers so some benchmarks are not trusty.
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Thanks for that link, unfortunately I have a 500w psu because its fully modular and I got it from a friend for a tenner and a pint, I can't afford 2x 6950s anway, unless you can find me two for £200 I'm not going to splurge my cash.

easyrider said:
I can tell you it doesn't.

I have owned both and the GTX 570 is the better card at 1080p by far.

I have been testing today and its beating my last card 6950 flashed to 6970 by some margin both in benchmarks and games.

The GTX 570 is the better card but its more expensive
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Yeah looking at the bench test the 570 seems to destroy the single 6950 in most tests.


Edit*
Seeing as I can get a refurb GTX570 for the same price as a 6950 I think my mind is made up, I still have about a week to be convinced otherwise though.

Thanks so much for everyones help!
 
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