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GPU to enable Hight-Ultra @ 900p ?

Get a used 7870 and overclock it through the drivers. Super easy, low power and is perfect for your resolution.
 
950 should do shouldn't it? Or 370? Both in his budget for clearance section b grade at ocuk. Maybe not ultra for all games but turn aa down or off and shadows down a notch and should still look and play well enough at 900p res. Failing that save up more for a better card perhaps.
 
Zethor said:
No chance with the 750 ti. The 960 is at least 50% faster. In some cases it is twice as fast.
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Tho, will I be able to use R9 370 2GB with my 450 PSU ? I think the PSU is limiting me in this build the most. :(
Also, the fact that I can barely find any topic about R9 370 or review on Youtube makes me a bit suspicious about this GPU.
 
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MindfulPlayer said:
Tho, will I be able to use R9 370 2GB with my 450 PSU ? I think the PSU is limiting me in this build the most. :(
Also, the fact that I can barely find any topic about R9 370 or review on Youtube makes me a bit suspicious about this GPU.
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Your PSU is sufficient for the 370 but the 950 is the better card so if you find one at a good price, that's what you should get it.


AMD’s competition at this price point, frankly, doesn't keep up. There were no occasions in our testing where the Radeon R7 370 finished ahead of the Asus GTX 950 Strix. Not only that, but Nvidia’s GPU draws less power, too.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews...,4270.html?_ga=1.28711289.49140089.1462010466
 
MindfulPlayer said:
I was thinking about it as well but by looking at the current price range, I don't think so it will go any cheaper.
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That is hard to tell but if anything when new cards are out, this gen will go eol and cheaper, AMD are pushing for a cheap vr base line so you might get a knock on effect of card lower than the vr baseline been more powerful than this gen at the same price, we can only hope.
 
queamin said:
That is hard to tell but if anything when new cards are out, this gen will go eol and cheaper, AMD are pushing for a cheap vr base line so you might get a knock on effect of card lower than the vr baseline been more powerful than this gen at the same price, we can only hope.
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What do you mean they will go eol ? Anyway, I think I will wait as it's not that much time plus I might get more money on the way while I wait.

Edit: From what I have read, it's the best way to go for Nvidia GPU if I want to get a better performance in games.
 
Eol = end of line and Amd are better at certain price points from (380/x-960) and (970-390) and (390x,nano-980) fury x get beat a lot in dx11 and makes up some performance if not beats 980ti in some dx12 games but not many dx12 games out at moment but Amd seams to support their cards longer and more likely suited more for dx12 we will see.
 
Which games in particular are you hoping to play at high settings? I mean there will be some games no matter what requires a decent gfx card and cpu at high or ultra settings like gta v. So just so your aware that getting a 960 or somit might help u play some games at high or ultra settings there will be some you cant. Just incase u were pinning ur hopes up on the gfx card upgrade thats all.
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Who told you that? I have a GTX960 which is Nvidia's fastest sub £200 graphics card and no amount of marketing makes it faster on average than the R9 380 and R9 380X.
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I meant it in general.

SkeeterUK said:
Which games in particular are you hoping to play at high settings? I mean there will be some games no matter what requires a decent gfx card and cpu at high or ultra settings like gta v. So just so your aware that getting a 960 or somit might help u play some games at high or ultra settings there will be some you cant. Just incase u were pinning ur hopes up on the gfx card upgrade thats all.
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Well, I have quiet long list to play, some of the older games first since they are much cheaper. So some of them are like:

  • Tomb Raider from 2013
  • GTA V
  • Skyrim
  • The Wolfenstein The New Order
  • Far Cry 3
  • Remember Me
  • etc .....

I have a bit of catching up to be honest with you :D but like I said, I will need the new GPU for around ~1 - 1.5 year since after that I will be getting myself a completely new build.

P.S Notice that I will probably turn off FXAA, MSAA and the like to achieve a better frame rate. I would rather get ultra textures than for example 8x MSAA.
 
Fxaa should be doable as little performance difference, some complain of bluryness but i dont see it tbh.

Skyrim will run well on pretty much anything especially a nvidia gpu iirc if you mod the game tho performance will suffer and if too many mods then u might run out of vram iirc.

Gta 5 should run on a 960 i believe but make sure settings are mostly down, still should look quite nice tho but yeah keep settings down.

Other games not sure as dont think ive played em.

So if u said u have around £117 now, if u sold the r7 240 for 25-30 quid on ebay that brings you to around £142 ish. See if anything else u can sell that u never use anymore in the house to fund for a better gfx card, that or save up and try to aim for at least a 960. As seen some on ocuk for £158-165 range, go for evga if u can due to good support if anything goes wrong. Other sites might have cheaper ones who knows up to u in the end. But saving up a touch and selling ur old gfx card i reckon u can get a 960 easily enough within a month or less.
 
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Fxaa should be doable as little performance difference, some complain of bluryness but i dont see it tbh.

Skyrim will run well on pretty much anything especially a nvidia gpu iirc if you mod the game tho performance will suffer and if too many mods then u might run out of vram iirc.

Gta 5 should run on a 960 i believe but make sure settings are mostly down, still should look quite nice tho but yeah keep settings down.

Other games not sure as dont think ive played em.

So if u said u have around £117 now, if u sold the r7 240 for 25-30 quid on ebay that brings you to around £142 ish. See if anything else u can sell that u never use anymore in the house to fund for a better gfx card, that or save up and try to aim for at least a 960. As seen some on ocuk for £158-165 range, go for evga if u can due to good support if anything goes wrong. Other sites might have cheaper ones who knows up to u in the end. But saving up a touch and selling ur old gfx card i reckon u can get a 960 easily enough within a month or less.
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I see, tho I don't think I will be able to sell that damn R7 240 2GB for a price you are saying because the new one costs like £40. Anyway, I will definitely be back in Jun/July with more cash and we will see what we can do here.

Thanks to everyone who contributed in help here :D
 
MindfulPlayer said:
I meant it in general.
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Been building and buying gaming PCs for like 12 to 13 years - Nvidia launched the rubbish FX series like in 2003 and people were saying even then Nvidia were the best for gaming,even when it was being utterly destroyed by the 9000 series in almost all metrics,and Half Life 2 could not even run properly on the Nvidia GPUs too! It was the first time I ever bought an ATI card(first two cards were Nvidia).

So,don't believe any of those general comments - flipped flopped between both sides and had 20+ graphics cards,and my view at the end they are as bad or good as each other overall.

Just get the fastest card you can for your budget and for the type of games you play.
 
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