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In a pickle selecting a GPU

MrBlueUk

MrBlueUk

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So I have hit a bit of a bump in the road, I had set my eyes on the GTX 560ti but after hearing that Nvidia are bringing out new cards that may be around the same price range it has put me in a slight pickle. Now what I am thinking is buying a cheaper card to use to play games until the new cards are released If I did this what cards would do a good job until then?

Thanks for any help I get.
 
Just dont forget that to benefit from new range of cards your PC needs to be really good- dont sit with a C2D and wait for Kepler to make your system a world beater;) So if your PC is less than tip-top - no need to wait, just get 560ti or whatever- even that would be bottlenecked by lesser CPUs.
 
If there is any truth in rumours at all Keplar is not far away (April strongly rumoured). This will hopefully make the market a little more competitive and lower the prices.
Or maybe thats just me wishfull thinking.
 
Get one of the HD7750/7770 cards that come out next week - should cost between £100 and £130 or so - they will be massively faster than what you have and more than enough for your monitor - perhaps 6-7 times faster than your 5400.

The slower/cheaper 7600's will I believe just be re-badged 66/67xx series cards. The faster/dearer 7800 series will be a month or so away.
 
MDPlatts said:
Get one of the HD7750/7770 cards that come out next week - should cost between £100 and £130 or so - they will be massively faster than what you have and more than enough for your monitor - perhaps 6-7 times faster than your 5400.

The slower/cheaper 7600's will I believe just be re-badged 66/67xx series cards. The faster/dearer 7800 series will be a month or so away.
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Next week is when I am looking to purchase my gpu
 
I think for your curent system 560ti would be ok. C2Q is no longer "all that" any more, so 560ti/6950 or maybe 570/6970 would be pretty much the sweet spot- no bottlenecks and thus you wont be paying for unused performance potential.

If you can stretch - I'd go for AMD as they have more VRAM which will come in handy once you upgrade your monitor.
 
Borsch said:
I think for your curent system 560ti would be ok. C2Q is no longer "all that" any more, so 560ti/6950 or maybe 570/6970 would be pretty much the sweet spot- no bottlenecks and thus you wont be paying for unused performance potential.

If you can stretch - I'd go for AMD as they have more VRAM which will come in handy once you upgrade your monitor.
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Everyone seems to always say get a gtx 560 ti
 
MrBlueUk said:
Everyone seems to always say get a gtx 560 ti
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Because at the moment it is one of the best bang for bucks card around.

I myself helped a friend bought a MSI GTX560Ti Twin FrozR II OC 2GB with free BF3 for £191.99. So knock £25 off the £191.99 for the BF3 game, that's only £166.99 for the MSI GTX560Ti Twin FrozR II OC 2GB! You simply won't find a 6950 2GB at this price range.

My friend's GTX560Ti managed to overclock to 950MHz with moderate voltage increase, and his fps on BF3 while playing online is around 33 min to average 42-45 even on Ultra settings (with with MSAA off, FXAA on High) on his i3 2120.

But yea...if you can wait for the new cards, they 'might' be more bang for bucks. But the term bang for bucks simply don't exist in the current new AMD range, as it is "a lot more bucks, for moderately more bang'.
 
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MrBlueUk said:
Everyone seems to always say get a gtx 560 ti
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WEll, if I were you, I would get a good second hand 6970 - it also has 2gb Vram and is more future proof overall. YOu can get them for as low as £180, and that is tough to beat. If you want new - 560ti 2gb advice above is sound.
 
Marine-RX179 said:
I myself helped a friend bought a MSI GTX560Ti Twin FrozR II OC 2GB with free BF3 for £191.99. So knock £25 off the £191.99 for the BF3 game, that's only £166.99 for the MSI GTX560Ti Twin FrozR II OC 2GB! You simply won't find a 6950 2GB at this price range.
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Where or when was this deal? I suppose I am too late to the party as usual :(
 
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