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Best graphics card for around £100?

At The Gates

At The Gates

At The Gates

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People have been recommending the 750Ti, is this still the best option? It will mainly be used for Photoshop and Lightroom, with a little light gaming at 1600x1050, mainly for all the games i've bought on Steam but yet to play!

My system:

Intel Core i7-3770K 3.50GHz (Ivybridge)
Samsung 128GB SSD 840 PRO
Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB SATA 6Gbs 64MB
Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155)
Seasonic G series 550w '80 Plus Gold' PSU
Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB

I don't want to buy a new PSU so i'd need something that's not going to stress out the PSU (i doubt this will be the case with any £100 GPU??)

Thanks!
 
B grade 660Ti for £89.99 is the fastest card for under £100 available.

If you don't fancy B grade then either a AMD 260x or a NVidia 750Ti is a good shout.

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 750Ti OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (N750Ti-2GD5/OCV1) £99.95
1 x **B Grade** Gigabyte GeForce GTX 660TI OC Windforce 2X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express G (GX-107-GI) £89.99
1 x Sapphire Radeon R7 260X OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (11222-06-20G) £89.99
Total : £279.92 (includes shipping : ).

 
2nd hand 7950 could be had in budget and would be a massive step up from the cards listed above. Obviously, you take your chances with 2nd hand though.
 
At The Gates said:
People have been recommending the 750Ti, is this still the best option? It will mainly be used for Photoshop and Lightroom, with a little light gaming at 1600x1050, mainly for all the games i've bought on Steam but yet to play!

My system:

Intel Core i7-3770K 3.50GHz (Ivybridge)
Samsung 128GB SSD 840 PRO
Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB SATA 6Gbs 64MB
Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155)
Seasonic G series 550w '80 Plus Gold' PSU
Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB

I don't want to buy a new PSU so i'd need something that's not going to stress out the PSU (i doubt this will be the case with any £100 GPU??)

Thanks!
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Stretch an extra £10 towards it and get a performance boost over other offerings posted. :)

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-169-PC&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1982
 
Photoshop and Lightroom take advantage of CUDA cores, so I would go with nVidia. That 660Ti that Bru links would be by choice or if you want brand new, the 750Ti is a great little card.
 
lol, gregster. Like mentioned in the other thread. Right behind Matt ;)

AMD Vendor Rep vs Nvidia Vendor Rep in disguise :p;):D
 
Do you lose all manufacturer warranty with B-grade? Or are the manufacturers not too bothered by it as long as have receipt.
 
Gregster said:
Photoshop and Lightroom take advantage of CUDA cores, so I would go with nVidia. That 660Ti that Bru links would be by choice or if you want brand new, the 750Ti is a great little card.
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Depends which version, CS6 uses OpenCL NOT CUDA so unless he has a 5+ year old version he's better going AMD.

Besides that the R9 270 is significantly more powerful than the 750TI anyway, its the one to go for.
 
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Thanks guys, I have Photoshop CC 2014 which uses OpenCL more, but i doubt i use many of the functions that go through the MPE. Lightroom 6 they say will be accelerated but not by what method, and i think i would use accelerated functions there. I guess if i go Nvidia i have CUDA and OpenCL covered?

The R9 270 does look good, is my PSU ok though? Everyone seems to suggest a 500w minimum, i have 550w, but i didn't break the bank when i bought it.

Only other thing right now is my PC is very quiet, would the Radeon be significantly louder than the 750Ti given it's larger power requirements?

Cheers.
 
CC doesn't support CUDA at all :) it looks like Adobe are phasing it out, i can't find any solid info on Lightroom 6, is it out yet?

AMD have been doing a lot of work with Adobe lately...... I think its the way to go.

http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/am...next-wave-of-adobe-photoshop-cc-features.html

http://sites.amd.com/us/business/software-partners/adobe/Pages/adobe-pro-gfx.aspx

550W is more than enough for the 270, its only a 120 Watt GPU and most of them have very good coolers on them so its quiet.
 
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