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Best Graphics card for £250

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Thats why another mate is running an R9 390 on an overclocked FX6350 on a 3+ year old Antec 550W PSU.

You do realise the R9 390 cards(outside some of the MSI ones) were also a slight improvement over the R9 290/290X in actual performance/watt??
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I ran my 290 on a 550w PSU too, it was probably near the limit in games where it was running near 100% usage. Doesn't mean it's a great idea, and also leaves less room for overclocking.

Also just for the record.

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If the OP can stretch his money that AMD Nano for £350 looked the bargain card of the moment.
 
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TheMadHatter said:
Forgot to ask my motherboard is a hp Odense chipset h110 would this be ok for gaming ??
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that's interesting if it's this Motherboard, then it's a Micro-ATX, and therefor can get really tiny case to suit the Nano, cant really say how good the mobo is for gaming, couldn't find reviews for it.

here are 3 cases to choose from according to taste or budget, and yes if the motherboard is the same i linked above.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

But if you pick the bitfenix prodigy case, you gonna need a smaller PSU like this one here
the other 2 cases work fine with the PSU previously picked.
 
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390 is the card to get.

Don't bother with a card with less than 4gb from here on.

Look at the rise of the tomb raider forum on steam with many threads about not being able to use very high textures on 4gb cards.
 
Nano is lower powered, better performance and newer technology.... There is no point in getting a 390 if you can afford a Nano.

Most people only recommend a 390 if keeping closer to the budget you originally stated, if you can stretch your budget then no harm in doing that.
 
opethdisciple said:
Possibly, but with AMD's dodgy drivers? Not so sure.
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there are no amd dodgy drivers....Nvidia's had far worse drivers on win 10 than AMD; seriously I've used both; have to deal with both and Nvidia specially on win 10 gives me far more issues than AMD.....other win 8.1 and 7 again AMD is fine......so what dodgy drivers; now if you're thinking from about 2003 from ATI then yes......there were some.

Yet; AMD yet to release full driver that will kill a card; Nvidia's done it twice now
 
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