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Please reccommend cheapish card to outperform xfire 5770's

eWasteman

eWasteman

eWasteman

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As per title, looking for a cheapish single GPU that will outperform my current crossfire 5770's which have served well for a long time. I'd quite like to be running BF3 on high settings with a decent minimum fps.

See the rest of my specs below:

i5 Ivybridge
Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H-WB WIFI
8GB Ram

With a single GPU i'll be able to use the mobo feature which makes the processor do some of the graphics rendering so that should give me a slight boost also.

Thanks
 
I don't know what resolution you are running at, but I run an i5 with crossfire 5770's on high settings at 1080 and get 60-80+fps on all the maps on bf3 even oman.

If I were looking at a cheap upgrade, I would have a think about a 2gb 7850 and possibly add another in crossfire later on if you wanted more. I don't think you will get many more frames top end on a single card without a slight o/c, but it will probably give you better minimum fps.
 
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I went from CF5770s to a single 7950 and the performance jump in BF3 was huge. Could play ultra settings just fine. Whether you consider one of them jump is another question...
 
humbug said:
+1 for the 7850 2GB

Or this 7870 for £200 its a limited edition 7870 with a Tahiti core, performance is as near as a 7950 it makes little difference.
it says 1280 cores, that's wrong, it actually has over 1500.

See here

Or this standard 7870 for £180
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Yeah actually, either of those 7870's would be the best choice as the 7850 is too close in price atm. When the 7850 TF3 was £150 it was perhaps worth the saving. Now the cheapest 7850 2Gb is £156, but that has a reference style cooler with the next cheapest reference cards costing £170, so worth the extra for either of those cards.
 
Thanks for all the helpful replies. I play games at 1680.

I don't think i'd wanna spend more than £200. I picked up the extra used 5770 for £50 and it's done great for ages. But, I play BF3 on medium as I prefer to have consistent high frames. I do like to make the occasional fraps movie also.

Looks like the 7850 / 7870 is a good choice
 
I went from 5770 XF to a 7850 2gb. There was a noticable diffrence in FSP increase. I upgraded from a i5 750 to a i5 3570k last week and now getting even more fps.
 
Mak3R said:
I went from CF5770s to a single 7950 and the performance jump in BF3 was huge. Could play ultra settings just fine. Whether you consider one of them jump is another question...
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What 7950 did you get. I am looking to go from CF5770 vapour x to a single 7950.
Cheers.
 
You wont get a card that fits any definition of cheap to comfortably beat your 5770 CF.

eWasteman said:
With a single GPU i'll be able to use the mobo feature which makes the processor do some of the graphics rendering so that should give me a slight boost also.

Thanks
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That will make no difference whatsoever for gaming, especially with cards as powerful as the 5770CF and above.
 
I purchased the msi 7950, they had bad press with the bad batch they have, but the one I've got is running perfect, under 99% gpu load it does go over 59c...such a great card

I came from a single 5850 and the difference was huge
 
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