Graphics Card Upgrade

[Tim2100]

Hi

I currently have 2x Sapphire HD 4870 512MB running in Crossfire.

If I upgrade to a GTX660, will I notice a vast difference. The GPU Compare tools suggest there won't be a huge upgrade.

If the upgrade is worthwhile is it then worth spending an additional £80 to go for a GTX 660 ti?

 

[Gibbo3771]

You will notice a huge difference if gaming at 1080p, in fact you will even see a difference at 720p with so little vRam on the 4870's.

I am not fond of NVidia due to their price vs performance, however they do have price vs reliability.

If you are wanting to splash £280 on a 660ti, I suggest you just get a single 7950. You will see a massive increase in performance and will run fantastic along side your 3770k.

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1 x MSI HD 7950 Twin Frozr III Boost Edition 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **NEW REVISION** £263.99
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This one is a little more expensive than the other 7950's, it is a dual fan setup opposed to the other ones only have single fans. I believe this is due to the PCB reference number, most likely totally wrong about that but yeah, with a high-end cards I prefer having 2 fans.

 

[Doomedspeed]

660 and 660ti are good if you need an nvidia card. if not 7870XT at around £200 is great value and a 7950 for £250 would be my choice.

The two fan frozr is a non reference I think. The reference have rear exhausts rather than the twin top/side exhaust of the frozr..

 

[Tim2100]

ok

thinking of a Asus 3Gb 7950 DirectCU II and a 27" IPS LED Monitor to go with it.

Success?

I would prefer NVidia as I have an nice Nvidia branded case, however the evidence seems overwhelming to go with AMD rather than NVidia.

 

[chid76]

+1 for a 7870xt (tahiti chip) I picked one up to upgrade from 2x 1gb 5770's and it plays everything I want at max detail @1080.

I noticed a big improvement due to having more grunt and 2gb of vram, games like BF3 are using about 1750mb on ultra.

 

[Tim2100]

+1 for a 7870xt (tahiti chip) I picked one up to upgrade from 2x 1gb 5770's and it plays everything I want at max detail @1080.

I noticed a big improvement due to having more grunt and 2gb of vram, games like BF3 are using about 1750mb on ultra.

Thanks Chid76, Thats one thing I needed to know, I thought that having Crossfire two cards would give me pretty decent performance, so I'm worried that I will spend £200 and have nothing to show for it.

Unfortunatly the local supplier I looked at suddenly didn't have the stock to pick up today, so back to the drawing board on the hunt for a decent priced deal with the bits i want.

 

[Bromhead]

7950 would be my choice, I went from a 5850 1gb and the increase in vram alone made it very worthwhile.