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Best sub £200 Card
- Thread starter Danzal
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What power supply do you have?
7850: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-295-SP&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=411
7850: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-295-SP&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=411
VRAM is going to knock it over at some point though with only 1.25GB.
@OP HD7850. More VRAM and huge overclocking headroom to get to stock 7950 levels of performance.
Back to the old VRAM conspiracy theories.
You haven't even asked what resolution he'll be using and you've already assumed 1.25GB isn't enough. It makes for "interesting" pub talks but in the real world the 1.25GB on a 570 is fine.
Back to the old VRAM conspiracy theories.
It makes for "interesting" pub talks but in the real world the 1.25GB on a 570 is fine.
Ill be using a 32 in led tv as a monitor for now
It will be fine then. Unless you're going for 5760x1080 (triple screens) it will be more than sufficient.
If you're really bored search on here for "VRAM"and you'll see countless discussions where people get all excited for little reason.
Blah blah.
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/549?vs=518
And that's at stock.
Performance while overclocked results in this thread (very impressive):
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18389760
Price:
YOUR BASKET
1 x KFA2 GeForce GTX 570 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE NVIDIA GPU Keyring £199.99
1 x Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7850 OC Windforce 2X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card w/ Nexuiz & Dirt Showdown PC Games £194.99
Total : £406.38 (includes shipping : £9.50).
Only one winner I'm afraid.
Blah blah.
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/549?vs=518
And that's at stock.
Performance while overclocked results in this thread (very impressive):
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18389760
Price:
YOUR BASKET
1 x KFA2 GeForce GTX 570 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE NVIDIA GPU Keyring £199.99
1 x Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7850 OC Windforce 2X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card w/ Nexuiz & Dirt Showdown PC Games £194.99
Total : £406.38 (includes shipping : £9.50).
Only one winner I'm afraid.
So you've side stepped your daft VRAM comments and are now using a single source to assure the world the 7850 is the better card?
Top work there..
Danzal - Go for either the 7850 or 570. The truth is they're both great cards but as you can see people get really anal about these things.
lol cheers for the advice. Seems i brought up a bit of a touchy subjecty with this one
You're in desperate retreat. The VRAM comments weren't daft: BF3 (as an example) uses more than 1.25GB of VRAM while maxed out at 1080p in multiplayer. A 7850 could handle those settings if overclocked.
Correct, other games are more than fine but what was pointed out (before you threw your toys out of the pram) was that the 7850 has more VRAM for future proofing should a game come out in the future which uses more VRAM and he wants to play it maxed out.
Indeed. It isn't as clear cut as I'm probably coming across but getting really anal? What you mean like you are? Hypocritical to say the least!
@ Danzal: The 7850 is the better performing card if you want to overclock it. The one I linked comes with a better cooler to help facilitate this and two free games.
As mentioned above scan this thread for some 'real world' results:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18389760
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assuming the OP is prepared to over clock I'm afraid the 7850 is the better card. Just because you might not like it doesn't make it less true. When overclocked it is faster than a over clocked 570, while producing less heat and noise, better tessellation performance and over 50% more vram. I upgraded from a 570 a few months ago as I was hitting the vram limit at 1080p, so I would not recommend anyone buying now unless they were prepared to reduce settings.
PMSL at you trying to convince a 570 owner, and Battlefield 3 player, that it uses more than 1.25GB of VRAM in multilayer at 1080P.
That's news to me because at 1200P in Ultra/High (mixture of settings) I use less than 1.25GB.
Anyway the VRAM argument is old and boring and Danzal doesn't want his thread trashing anymore than you have done already so you can have the final say and I'll more on to something more interesting (and factually correct).
Yeah exactly, a mixture of Ultra/High settings and probably no MSAA. That's exactly why it's OK. And it won't look as good as a maxed out 7850 because of it.
There are even more posters above who are saying you're wrong so you should probably edit out the factually correct bit as you're already looking a little 'daft'.
The facts are that many people experience 1.5-2GB usage even on 1080p on BF3, go look around the net for plenty of complaints on EA forums and what not. Another fact is the 7850 IS better than the 570.