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Graphics card upgrade

Rambo89

Rambo89

Rambo89

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Wanting some advice on graphics cards, i currently have a 450gts which works well even at 1080p but im looking to slowly start upgrading and want to get a new graphics card first.

I have a budget of £200-£300 preferably cheaper but will see what comes up, would rather Nvidia than AMD and it needs to be able to power 3 screens, i currrently have 2 monitors connected using DVI and my Panasonic TV using HDMI but i am limited to 2 monitors on my 450GTS.

What im looking for is a graphics card that can power the 3 monitors without needing to SLI, i have looked at Nvidia but not sure what would meet the requirments, any help would be appreciated!
 
The 670 will power 3 screens but your CPU will be a bottleneck I am afraid. This is at the top end of your budget but will do what you need (It will struggle with max settings on 3 screens though).
 
Should have mentioned, i most likely won't use all 3 screens at once in gaming configuration, i mainly want to be able to switch TV on and have display instead of having to change settings all the time, currently i have to disable a screen and then enable the TV, i want to be able to just switch TV on and change to HDMI for PC and it has video output.

CPU/PSU should be sufficient for this may be some bottleneck with CPU, had no issues in past using a 4870X2 obviously i know that card probably used less power and less performance? not kept that up to date with cards, as said i want to upgrade this first and then the rest, hopefully CPU can cope for time being, same with PSu.
 
CPU will cope but would fair a lot better from Overclocking. Whilst at it's stock speed, you will be missing out on the new GPU power. As you say you intend on changing all soon so that's cool :)
 
As its a B3 model Q6600 i cant get much out it when overclocking which is a shame but its done me well.

Will look at the 670 then, plan on an upgrade in 2/3 weeks hopefully, are nvidia the way forward these days when looking at graphics cards?
 
In honesty, both NVIDIA and AMD are tops. Nothing between them. For manual overclocking purposes, I would be inclined to go team red but for out of the box overclocking, it has to be team green.
 
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