Need help with upgrading a friends GPU

[Danzo]

So my friend bought a system a while ago in about February ish, and he just got Battlefield 4. But unfortunately his graphics caird ain't upto scratch. He currently has a XFX 6670 and head stuck on low settings at 1080p
So,
I'm looking to recommend him a new gpu so he can get 60fps @1080 performance for less than £120?
Any help is much appreciated guys thank you,
Happy holidays.

 

[Jumper118]

if he buys one of these and sells the games then that should bring them nearer to budget. these will be much faster than the 6670 and he should be able to play medium-high at 60fps
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/857?vs=783 give you an idea of how the 660 vs 270(same as the 7870 will perform)
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/613?vs=660 this gives you an idea of the 6670 vs 660
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/613?vs=548 6670 vs 270 (7870)
YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 270 "BF4 Edition" 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £149.99
1 x KFA2 GeForce GTX 660 EX OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £129.95
Total : £289.54 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 

[Ian Evey]

A constant 60 fps is only doable on a medium to high end card at high or ultra settings, If he wants medium settings you would need anything from a 6970 to a 280. It really depends on what settings he wants to play at.

 

[Danzo]

Ok thanks guys, GTX 660 looks like not a bad option since he's not to bothered about quality, as long as he's not getting super frame lag hah. Only problem is driver issues going from AMD to nvidia. I was also considering a 270 to upgrade from my ageing 7850.
Anyways thanks for the help

 

[Jumper118]

Ok thanks guys, GTX 660 looks like not a bad option since he's not to bothered about quality, as long as he's not getting super frame lag hah. Only problem is driver issues going from AMD to nvidia. I was also considering a 270 to upgrade from my ageing 7850.
Anyways thanks for the help

the 270 isn't much better than the 7850 at all.

 

[Nanotek]

GTX660 dude I think it's the best bang for the price. My pal got one from MSI and he's quite happy with it playing games at 1080

 

[Danzo]

Ok so if he goes with the nvidia, how hard is it to move from AMD to nvidia? I know there's one or two driver issues. Or could someone direct me to another post on moving from AMD to nvidia? Thanks.

 

[jamiehavok]

i moved from nvidia to amd amd the most i had to do was remove a physx driver and reinstall 1 game to get that 1 game to work (nfs shift) everything else was fine with a simple driver change from nvidia to amd!

 

[Defconluke]

I doubt you get any problems if you just unplugged one and put the other in there.
If you want to be super cautious then uninstall the AMD drivers and remove the card. Use the onboard VGA to start up and run CCleaner to make sure all remnants of the previous AMD driver are gone then restart with the Nvidia card in place.

 

[Marine-RX179]

"So my friend bought a system a while ago in about February ish, and he just got Battlefield 4"

If I were you, I'd check your friend's CPU and PSU as well rather than thinking replacing the graphic card and it's job done...

 

[Danzo]

"So my friend bought a system a while ago in about February ish, and he just got Battlefield 4"

If I were you, I'd check your friend's CPU and PSU as well rather than thinking replacing the graphic card and it's job done...

Yeah checked out his Cpu it's a quad core piledriver 4.3 GHz i think? Also a 500w power supply and a micro atx gigabyte ultra durable usb 3 or something. Only 1 Pci express Lane though but three the 2 slots free for the upgrade

 

[Marine-RX179]

Yeah checked out his Cpu it's a quad core piledriver 4.3 GHz i think? Also a 500w power supply and a micro atx gigabyte ultra durable usb 3 or something. Only 1 Pci express Lane though but three the 2 slots free for the upgrade

The normally I would say the FX4 would fall short in terms of CPU grunt, and could seriously hammer the frame rate when playing multiplayer online...however with Mantle (when they get implemented...whenever that is), it would remove fair amount of unnecessary stress placed upon the CPU. Together with the game scale better with AMD hardware than Nvidia, the 270/270x would be a better choice than a GTX660.

However, I would recommend check if your friend's 500W of a decent brand, or a cheap nasty generic one. The generic PSUs often can't even deliver 50% of its claimed max output on the 12v rail, the rail which is vital for the core hardware such as graphic card and CPU.