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GPU to go with i3-540?

InfiniteNoise

InfiniteNoise

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As title, I would like to keep it under £100, not much point in going for a more powerful card because of the bottleneck.

GTX 650 Ti seems ideal, is there anything better/cheaper than that? Nvidia preferred.
 
a 7850 will be so, so much better than a 650Ti. You may prefer nVidia but you're going for a significantly worse card if you do this. If you're running Linux then perhaps you may have a reason to feel nVidia are better for you, outside of this performance for a given budget seems most important.

That said, if you can get a 650Ti for £100 thats pretty good going, they are normally more new. I'd certainly still go for the 7850 though.
 
I'm running Linux, which is why I prefer Nvidia, I should have mentioned that.

I just snapped up an EVGA GTX 650 Ti for 99.

Would have went for 7850 instead if I ran Windows but I've had nothing but problems with AMD under Linux.
 
mickyflinn said:
B grade item and sell the games your are well under budget.

YOUR BASKET
1 x **B Grade** Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7850 OC Windforce 2X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card w/ Nexuiz, Sleeping Dogs & Dirt Showd (GX-100-GI) £109.99


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B grade don't come with games (says at top of the page) but a retail 7850 is only £119 now

Does anyone here know if a £120 7850 comes with 5 games? OC site seems to suggest that you get the 3 listed games plus an AMD silver 2 games. I'm half tempted by that partly because I could get 5 games that I actually want. Oh and are they all steam codes?
 
I've been refreshing myself with GPU reviews and it's seems clear that the 670 is the sub £200 card to go for but I'm definitely getting a PS4 soon and £120 is much more in budget

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That's how it reads to me and if true, I could get 5 games that I do actually want.

If true I could get

  1. DMC
  2. Bioshock Infinte
  3. Far Cry 3
  4. Far Cry BM
  5. Tomb Raider
 
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If it has to be Nvidia go for a 560ti, their better than the 650 and can be found used on here much cheaper (so car the 570 and 580 if you look hard enough).

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Lol, didn't read :P
 
Saw a GTX 580 for 119 somewhere, but it's a brown box and I don't really need that much performance, not to mention that GTX 580 consumes more power, because the PC will be left on constantly.

I played games for a bit on a Quadro 2000m (which is just a slower version of GTX 460m) and it did the job fine, better than I expected so anything better than that is a step up. Out of all games I own, I play WoW the most and it's not very demanding.
 
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