Decisions decisions!

[bobbarley]

Thinking of upgrading my graphics card, but money's tight. Keep tossing the idea around in my head but can't make my mind up.

At the moment I've a GTX 260 896MB. I plan to play the next generation of games to come out, new Elder Scrolls game Skyrim, Battlefield 3, Diablo 3 etc etc. Doubt the 260 is really going to hack it.

Is it worth forking out £80 for a GTX 460 768MB? Whilst faster I think the downgrade is memory is going to be an issue? OR, fork out the extra and spent £140 of a GTX 560?

Or try to make the most of the 260 and hope the faster cards drop in price as new offerings come out?

 

[bobbarley]

I play at 1680x1050.

 

[bobbarley]

Question. Do you think going from 896MB to 768MB would be a problem, or would the extra power of the 4600 easily make up for it?

Looking at this to tide me over?

YOUR BASKET
1 x OcUK GeForce GTX 460 768MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card - OEM £77.99
Total : £77.99 (includes shipping : FREE).

 

[bobbarley]

Getting a 460 with 1GB really bumps up the price, probably to the point where it'd be better paying the extra for the 560.

 

[bobbarley]

Well I bit the bullet and have ordered the OcUK GTX 460 768MB. Pretty good price with the warranty and all, and as said, still a good performance increase over my GTX 260.

Just need to decide what to do with my 260 now, I checked on eBay and they're worth naff all!!

 

[bobbarley]

If you have a decent PSU you can use your GTX 260 as a PhysX card, eg if you're looking at playing the new Batman game.

Would love to, only one PCI-E slot though.

 

[bobbarley]

Aye, GTX 260 still runs most things, just not BF3 very well as I found out. Don't get me wrong the FPS was ok, but it just looked awful!

 

[bobbarley]

GTX 460 arrived earlier so popped it in. Fired up BF3 and it chaged all the settings to high. Looks a million times better now, and I'm still getting 30+ FPS, so overall very pleased