Need some help picking a new GFX card.

[Gast]

Sadly, my good old old 5850 has gave up on me and I am now without a GFX card for my PC. I am looking to buy a replacement asap but with newer GFX cards out and some on the horizon I am a bit clueless now as to what is recommended.

Current PC specs -
i5b2500K,
Z68 asrock extreme 4 gen 3 Mobo
8gb ram

My monitor is pretty crappy HannsG HW191D (19") but this is likely to be upgraded shortly as well. (1080p)

General use is mostly in gaming for things like Wow, Skyrim, BF3, ME3 etc. So I need a GFX card with a fairly decent amount of grunt to run these games at good if not max res. Would also like something with an option to let me SLI/Crossfire in the future.

Im also not really bothered if its Nvidia or AMD.

Price wise I would be looking around the £200ish mark tho will up that if required (Im not spending 400-500 tho hehe)

Help?

 

[arc@css]

As a minimum, I would consider this with an overclock :

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-005-VX&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=411

 

[MoodyB]

It's a pity you don't have members market access, as a 2nd hand Gtx 580 would have been an ideal choice at your budget.

As it stands, the 7850 is probably the best choice right now as long as you don't mind overclocking it a bit.

If you don't want to overclock then the MSI 6970 Twin Frozr III is a good buy for the price :

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-123-MS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1752

The Gtx 560Ti '448' or 570 are on offer atm for £210 too, but the 1.2gb of vram could be an issue depending on how much eye candy you like to have on.

 

[Surveyor]

And with a bit of luck you could get a very good overclock:

How to overclock a 7850 past 1050MHz?

 

[Gast]

After reading the thread it looks like 7850 is the way to go

Was thinking the Sapphire or MSI version...just need to wait on stock.