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Is this an upgrade?

Depends on the rest of his system but yes it's a significant upgrade. A 460 is still a capable card at 1080p but jumping from it to the 7850 is the difference between sticking BF3 on high and tweaking settings to get decent frame-rates and chucking it on ultra and wondering how much MSAA you can get away with.

I haven't had to tone down a single setting on the 7850 for any game other than AA where i did for the 460 eventually.
 
My brother has a £300 budget, if possible he would like to also buy some memory. I found some descent enough memory for £50.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-302-CS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1387

Then he could probably buy an even better card like a 7950.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-305-SP&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1673

Or would he be better off blowing all his money on a 7970.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-048-HS


His current rig has 4gb ram would he benefit more from having 8gb ram and 7950 card.
 
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+1 for 7950 on that budget. The memory looks rather expensive though, surely better getting some Kingston or Corsair XMS 1600mhz for ~£30-40?
 
It's all very well everyone recomending the 7950 but if the op's brother has a poor cpu it would be a waste of money when they could get a cheaper card and get similar results.

I would wait for the op to get back to us with what his brothers running before people start recomending £250 cards
 
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