Best GPU for £120

Hawkesbury · 15 Oct 2013 at 19:12

As title says I have about £120 +/- 10% to spend. I am currently using a HD5770 which hasn't caused me an issue over the last 3 years, it still works fine.

Games I play are BF3/4 and some MMO's. I also do some light CAD work, Revvit, Sketchup pro 8, Autodesk inventor.

PC is used more for light gaming than work.

rest of the specs are [email protected], 8 Gb of Ram, 650W Antec PSU.

I was going to wait for the new AMD CPU's but in all honesty at my budget I think an 7850 is better value. Am I right?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-221-MS free games! they have much resale value?

vs

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-329-SP&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1866

Martini1991 · 15 Oct 2013 at 19:15

7850 No questions asked.

XE11 · 15 Oct 2013 at 19:17

are you willing to go second hand? 7950 should be do-able. or even a 7970 if lucky

Martini1991 · 15 Oct 2013 at 19:20

7850 after games is like just over 80 quid, you're not beating that.

kefan77 · 15 Oct 2013 at 19:22

get HD7950, sell the games

arc@css · 15 Oct 2013 at 19:24

The 7850 is faster than the R7 260X, and the MSI 7850 you linked is set at a very good price.

head5000 · 15 Oct 2013 at 19:25

How much could you expect to get for 7950 games?

Hawkesbury · 15 Oct 2013 at 19:30

XE11 said:
are you willing to go second hand? 7950 should be do-able. or even a 7970 if lucky

I could go second hand I guess

Hawkesbury · 15 Oct 2013 at 19:31

kefan77 said:
get HD7950, sell the games

and how much for? surely the market is flooded and they are low value?

kefan77 · 15 Oct 2013 at 19:34

don't know the value of those particular games now, but when I was buying some Nvidia cards few weeks back, I've sold about 6 Splinter Cell codes for £25 each over a 1 month period and there were plenty GTX660ti and GTX670 deals going on at that time, so there was enough supply.

SouthEastBlue · 15 Oct 2013 at 20:56

7950 game codes are only worth about £25 in total if sols on the members market, but that's still a nice bit of money knocked off the price of the card.

wiggy · 15 Oct 2013 at 20:56

I got a 7870 from a well known auction site on Saturday! Worth a look.

shadow_boxer · 15 Oct 2013 at 21:52

kefan77 said:
get HD7950, sell the games

This or second hand 7950 or 7970 if you're lucky.

MeMeMeMe · 16 Oct 2013 at 02:25

Personally I wouldn't go second hand with a graphic card due to warranty worries. The 7850 is a substantial step up over your 5770, you'll get roughly double FPS (or more!).

If you can stretch slightly, I'd recommend the 7870:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=gx-068-hs

it does come with 2 free games.

here's a benchmark review showing a chart with a lot of cards at the bottom of each page - 5770 can be found near the bottom, 7850/7870 in the upper middle. so you can salivate over the improvement you'll be seeing.
http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/amd_radeon_hd_7850_and_7870_review,13.html

I have a friend who went from 5770 to 7870 about 6 months ago, and he has been very happy.

Hawkesbury · 31 Oct 2013 at 10:05

Sorry to revive this.

Family Commitments meant l never bought a Card. With BF4 out tomorrow l need to order ASAP.

with a revised budget of £150 + or - 20 if it Comes with 3 year Warranty respec me
thanks-

Marine-RX179 · 31 Oct 2013 at 10:12

Hawkesbury said:
Sorry to revive this.

Family Commitments meant l never bought a Card. With BF4 out tomorrow l need to order ASAP.

with a revised budget of £150 + or - 20 if it Comes with 3 year Warranty respec me
thanks-

This is the only card that fit the budget:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-049-HS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1673
But unfortunately it only comes with 2 years warranty. You might have better luck looking for 7950 elsewhere, but can't really point you to the right direction due to forum rule.

A word of warning is to avoid XFX. Their "so-called" warranty ain't worth the paper it's printed on. Their service is so bad that even OcUK have problems doing rma with, and needless to say OcUK has now stop stocking XFX graphic cards altogether.

Hawkesbury · 31 Oct 2013 at 10:16

Thanks for the reply. I would prefer to buy ocuk. But guess I will go look.

Whats the 270x like compared to a 7950?

Marine-RX179 · 31 Oct 2013 at 10:26

Hawkesbury said:
Thanks for the reply. I would prefer to buy ocuk. But guess I will go look.

Whats the 270x like compared to a 7950?

It would be slower, plus it only has 2GB of vram and 256-bit bus (which mean lower memory bandwidth).

Martini1991 · 31 Oct 2013 at 10:27

Yeah, the R270X isn't great to be honest, although AMD are adamant it's not just a 7870....
7950 all the way.

I thought the R270X was a 7870 LE at first tbh.

silversurfer · 31 Oct 2013 at 11:18

The 7950 is very good at this price level I think, it was the 3gb that convinced me. Some games are over 2gb usage so that has helped performance I think