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GFX 660 ti

yamaha said:
:)Its a headache choosing when you guys put forward the pros and cons.
It would have been much simpler if i could push my budget to a 670 or would it?

Thanks
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What are you going to gain with a GTX 670?

Don't get me wrong, the GTX 670 is probably nVidia's best card of this generation - BUT it will cost over £300 for a custom cooled version. :eek:

At this point as imiginy has already pointed out you would probably be best off with a GTX 680 on 'sale'

As for the GTX 660 vs the GTX 660Ti, the GTX 660 is indeed a bargain, but the GTX 660TI offers a boost, where you will notice it.
The GTX 660 may give 45fps for example, a GTX 660TI will give maybe 52fps. source: http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2012/12/10/zotac-geforce-gtx-660-ti-2gb-amp-extreme-r/1
This will be noticeable in games.

The obvious choice would be ATi, but the GTX 660 Ti is an excellent card at 1080p, I do agree however that it would be better if it was cheaper.

This one make most sense:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-186-MS&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=2379

But as Rusty has said, you may experience coil whine and fan noise with that reference design.
 
It depends on what res you game at, if your one monitor @ 1080P then a 660ti is more than enough card, I have gone from a 680GTX to a 7970 to a GTX 670 and finally a 660ti so I can speak with some authority here, my monitor res is 1920x1080 and I can tell you now the 660ti performance at that res is so close to the 670 I mean that close it makes the 670 an pointless card, until you go multi monitor or 3D 660ti all day long. Even with 3D the reason I went back to Nvidia for the amount I use it the 660ti is enough card for now. If you want more AA etc get the 3GB version like I have and has been mentioned and add some OC to the ram .

And at the AMD users your opinions are valid but saying a 7870 competes is complete toosh, if it were my money and the option was AMD it would be a 7950 .

Oh and don't buy a 580 for £200 really bad deal.
 
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Cool Breeze said:
It depends on what res you game at, if you one monitor @ 1080P then a 660ti is more than enough card, I have gone from a 680GTX to a 7970 to a GTX 670 and finally a 660ti some I can speak with some authority here, my monitor res is 1920x1080 and I can tell you now the 660ti performance at that res is so close to the 670 I mean that close it makes the 670 an pointless card, until you go multi monitor or 3D 660ti all day long. Even with 3D the reason I went back to Nvidia for the amount I use it the 660ti is enough card for now. If you want more AA etc get the 3GB version like I have and has been mentioned and add some OC to the ram .

And at the AMD users your opinions are valid but saying a 7870 competes is complete toosh, if it were my money and the option was AMD it would be a 7950 .

Oh and don't buy a 580 for £200 really bad deal.
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I am very interested in hearing more.

One point though, I don't think the 3 GB GTX 660Ti makes much sense as the standard card is limited by memory bandwidth not memory size.

Why have you swapped and changed so much?
 
Simple really value for money , GTX 680 was an expensive luxury even watercooled it but had no OC headroom so got board with that. 7970 was £299 with 3 free games which essentially made it a £200 card and I got £340 for the 680 so win win. AMD was cracking card but as I had a 3D monitor wanted to go back to Nvidia, and at 120hz on the desktop had the dreaded bottom of the screen bounce / flicker. So over to Nvidia enter the GTX 670 lovely card noisy fan and couldn't justify price for the amount of gaming I do, read reviews on the 66ti being so damn close I bought one.

And there you have it, for circa £220 bit more for the 3GB version I have in comparison to the other cards got value for money 660ti came with AC3. I also bought EVGA so if in 3 Months I feel it isn't cutting it I'll step up to a better hopfully more reasonably priced 670.

To get over the gimped memory bus you just clock the ram up 280mhz job done.
 
yamaha said:
Will the £215 msi 660ti referance card perform better than the overclocked 660 non ti one?
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Would get the 660Ti reference if they were the same price. Depends how much cheaper the custom GTX 660 non-TI was.

Cool Breeze said:
And at the AMD users your opinions are valid but saying a 7870 competes is complete toosh
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Wrong.

http://hardocp.com/article/2012/11/12/fall_2012_gpu_driver_comparison_roundup/

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I gather that OP isn't actually limited to Nvidia, but has only used them in the past (hence wanting to stay with them). Whilst I can understand your reasoning for wanting to keep with Nvidia, there is no real reason not to get a much better performing 7950 for around the same money. Arbitrary brand loyalty reduces competition (which is why Nvidia can get away with overpricing the 660Ti and still managing to sell them). So if OP is willing to try AMD just this one time (after all, if it isn't to your liking you can always return it within 14 days) then the 7950 is the superior choice.
 
Running stock memory clock is always going to make the 660ti look bad on bf3 4xmsaa.

The card needs at least a small memory overclock for bf3 4xmsaa to run smoothly.

My 660ti gets a constant 60fps online and campaign max settings 1080p 4xmsaa with everything turned on highest quality. :)
 
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