It's been a while!

[jongeeone]

Good evening OCuK.

It's been a while since i graced these forums, however a recent spontaneous purchase of BF4 has drawn me back into the world of computers. I have been out of the loop a while and once again, i have no idea what anything is these days.

I have not really gamed for a few years, its only been used for light AutoCAD and Revit work - which it has no problems with. I have a feeling, my CPU is still OK - not new these days but still considered a good choice. It runs at 4.5Ghz with no dramas, nice, cool and at a low voltage. The bottleneck is the graphics card.

My current set up does play BF4 smoothly. Albeit all on a low setting, using MVP Virtu and an overclock profile on my 8800GT! Below are my current specs:

i5 3570k @ 4.5Ghz
Cooler Master 212 Evo
Asrock Z77 Extreme 4
8GB Corsair XMS3
8800GT
OCZ ZT 550w PSU
OCZ 120Gb SSD

So, what graphics card would suit this? I don't want to spend the earth, or have to upgrade my PSU.. i may not get back into gaming like i use to be. I'm assuming newer cards have different power plugs to what i would have. I don't mind waiting a while, keeping an eye out in the members market or buying new for £100-150.

Thanks!

 

[Mei]

not sure we needed screenshots! lol
a 2nd hand (working!) 290 would be sweet
new I duno, a 280 or maybe one them new 960's
even a cheap 270 might not be too bad

I think a 285 is over budget and not that amazeballs anyway

 

[CinderzFTW]

i got a 280... great cards... and that 8800gt! now thats old school!

 

[jongeeone]

The 8800GT does all i need! Just had fiddle with more overclocks and happily played BF4 at 1600x900 with some medium texture/terrain settings!

So is AMD the way forward now in terms of bang for buck? The last AMD card i had was... 9800 XT!

 

[Toadem]

Im currently running a GTX 560ti and finding no problems with it, right now you can pick up a cheap second hand one on flea bay for around 40 quid, possibly even cheaper so I would definitely look at changing the 8800gt, if you can afford new then yea pound for pound AMD give you more bang for the buck but a decent nvidea I think will give you a longer lifespan and run cooler as stock.

 

[CinderzFTW]

Jongeeone,you should have access to the MM.. take a look on their, got my 280 for £100