Best Nvidia GTX GPU under £150

[matthewsmith12]

Hi, I'm currently wanting to upgrade my GPU (radeon 6670, i know a very crap card) because I want to play more games like BF4, DayZ, Arma 3 and more future games, on reasonable settings (medium or high) however I really want good fps (like 60fps). The reason I want a Nvida card is because i want it to be compatible with Nvidia Shield.

I the cards a bit over the price (e.g. £160) then it's fine.

 

[Iceni]

You have a couple of choices.

New the GTX960 fits your budget perfectly. If you go with one of these get a zotac because of the 5 year warranty.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=gx-080-zt&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=2379

if you can save a little more however the gtx970 is a much stronger card. it's had a few issues with the spec sheet. and people complaining that it can't use all of it's 4gb of ram at full speed. if your gaming at 1080p and use less than 3.5gb of v-ram then this doesn't affect you at all. and the prices on these cards have dropped by £50-80 over the past month because of all of the spec problems.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=gx-071-zt&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1010

it's £100 over budget, but the card is much stronger.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/gigabyte/gtx_960_g1_gaming/6.html

That article has a comparison to a GTX 970. I think the Extra £100 if you can find it would be well spent.

Failing that there is a B-grade GTX 770 on the clearance section that will be faster than a single 960, but slower than the 970 for the same price as the 960. Just be warned you don't get the same warranty with a B grade item.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BG-348-GI&groupid=595&catid=683

 

[RanxZy]

In terms of brand new cards there is not much vfm really with the GTX 960 and unfortunately NVIDIA have not released anything else in your price range to compete.

I think a used 4GB 770 or 680 would be better. Other than that, because you want to stick to NVIDIA there is not much else of an option. I presume NVIDIA haven't released the full range of Maxwell cards so things could change, especially If AMD make a 370X when they release their new cards. It's a real shame the 960 is not at least 192bit and 3GB as it would be a much more useful card for the money.

 

[matthewsmith12]

Thanks for the advice.

What life span do 770 or 680 have? In till they start degrade in performance?

 

[RanxZy]

The 770s are much more recent than the 680 so they would be preferable. There shouldn't be any performance degradation on them as far as I know

 

[r7slayer]

Thanks for the advice.

What life span do 770 or 680 have? In till they start degrade in performance?

They don't degrade in performance lol, its because newer games require more power/grunt to run them around their medium/average settings and even more so on their highest settings. You don't really notice the jump in graphical visuals with newer games, just that these games don't seem to run games at constant 60 FPS at medium settings. compared to older games you play.

So the GPU stays relatively the same performance just the games don't.

 

[stulid]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BG-353-GI

 

[RanxZy]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BG-353-GI

Great stuff, that would be absolutely perfect for the op.

 

[Jamielicious]

The 960s are overpriced, though the similarly performing and much cheaper 760 is reasonable value.

That 770 is the best option under £150 as they never dropped under £180 new even when they went EOL.

 

[RanxZy]

The 960s are overpriced, though the similarly performing and much cheaper 760 is reasonable value.

That 770 is the best option under £150 as they never dropped under £180 new even when they went EOL.

Yeah it's strange to think 4GB 680s used to go for £500+ and now you can pick one up for £149.99.