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Help with Graphic Card Choice

faolain

faolain

faolain

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Hi All,

I have been contemplating buying a new GFX Card so I can run some games a bit smoother with less heat. Also looking for 4k card so I can buy a 4k monitor (Is this worth it?) Ibeleive that I should be looking at using the display port now?

I am really not up to date on any of this now and would appreciate any feedback. I will leave my computer specs here so that it may help with graphics card choice.

Windows 10 Pro x64
Intel Core i7 6700 @ 3.4GHz - Skylake
24GB DDR4-2133 (1066MHz)
Asus Z170 PRO GAMING (LGA1151) Motherboard
AMD Radeon R9 280 4GB MSI Gaming

Now my budget is ~£300 willing to go a little above.

Cards I have been looking at are

GTX 1060/1070 (I know there is a price jump)
Radeon RX 480 Nitro 8GB

Or would it be worth buying another R9 280 and going crossfire? I would like some better quality though.

Thanks for any help you can give.
 
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If you want to go for 4K, then the GTX 1070 is the minimum you should be looking at.

Don't go for 2 cards, because both Xfire and SLI support is just bad and never seems to get better. Also 2 R9 280 cards won't be very powerful anyway.

You could get away with the GTX 1060 (6GB) or RX 480 8GB for 1440p, but not 4K.
 
Go for a 1440 screen. 4k you will need a 1070 minimum, probably 1080 in reality.

1440 screen you can use a 1070 and it'll work well.
 
Pushing the limit of the 1060 and your £300 max - Gigabyte Xtreme - cool but does take 2.5 slot

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5993#kf

Over stretching your budget but the cheapest 1070, Red man

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/kfa2...ess-graphics-card-70nsh6dhk6vk-gx-090-kf.html

stick a waterblock on it, if not dig a little deeper for a twin or triple fan solution.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/pali...ddr5-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-03g-pl.html

cheapest currently

Think most would point you to 1070 for 1080p/1440p for high frame rate and quality
 
Thanks all for your replies.

I was looking at the 1070 with the reference blower, I think that may be the one and yeah I think your right (orbitalwalsh) about the water block, ref blowers are always a bit.... well you know ;)

I will also look at the 1440p tip. I am not set on 4k I was wondering about the quality.

Really appreciate all the help!
 
Yeah the reference cooler is quite meh on the 1070.

The prices of the 1070 have been creeping up due to £ falling, but if you shop around, you can find the Palit Gamerock 1070 for £389.99. It's got the best cooler available and is slightly overclocked. Can't get better for the money.
 
I would not buy a 4k screen at this point in time. the 60 hz refresh rate is really off putting.

I'd say go for a good 1440p monitor, something with 144hz and a decent GPU like a 1070. Yes it will cost a bit but you'll be good for several years.

You can skimp on the motherboard and CPU ( heck I am still running 5 year old gear), don't skimp on monitor and GPU, not worth it.
 
4k, well for desktop usage sure.
Gaming I would wait for 4k 120hz sdr (60hz HDR) coming next year sometime. (I am)
a 144hz 1440p screen is pretty darn good today with cards that can run good fps.
1440p a 480/fury/390/1070/1060 or such all fit the bill.
sure you may need to adjust a setting or two with a mid range card as the 480.
Games you play is next, do you play games with dx12 support or coming?
if so a 480 is atm with fury the better options.
if not well its a toss up.
 
queamin said:
Fury for 275.99 in Gibbo's post
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Those are cheap for a reason... 4GB isn't enough for some titles for 1080P even...

Now that NVIDIA's budget/mid range card has 6GB and their mid/high end have 8-12GB, developers will take note (75-80% market share) and implement even higher quality textures/affects etc.
 
Those Palit cards (Gamerock and Jetstream) both have bad rep for RMA failure - I did some searching on google as I was interested in them since they're so cheap. The cooler may be good but what's it worth if the card goes kaput after the initial period is up on instant replacement via overclockers ( certainly wouldnt fancy the RMA via Asia). So yeah, I believe they're cheap for this reason, although for all I know they may have improved reliability.

Personally I would prefer to save up the extra few quid and buy something with a better rep (Asus, MSI, Zotac, etc).
 
queamin said:
Is that why in dx12 in BF1 they beating 980ti and 1070?
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One game? What about the thousands of DX11 games where the 1070 and above completely destroy the 4GB Fury?

In any case, even in DX12 the 1070 beats out the Fury's, with much better minimum FPS values:

9X221Mp.png


Note that that's a FURY X in those graphs, a air cooled fury will be 10% or so below that again.
 
SouthEastBlue said:
Those Palit cards (Gamerock and Jetstream) both have bad rep for RMA failure - I did some searching on google as I was interested in them since they're so cheap. The cooler may be good but what's it worth if the card goes kaput after the initial period is up on instant replacement via overclockers ( certainly wouldnt fancy the RMA via Asia). So yeah, I believe they're cheap for this reason, although for all I know they may have improved reliability.

Personally I would prefer to save up the extra few quid and buy something with a better rep (Asus, MSI, Zotac, etc).
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It's very easy to find bad reports if you look for them.

I've had a 1070 Super Jetstream since launch and have had no problems. (fingers crossed that stays the case)
 
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