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Recommend me a card (cheeky way)

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Hi guys. I'm looking at buying a new graphics card to replace my ATI 5770 as I'd like a better BF3 experience (seems the card makers are making huge profits in the last month from people upgrading :D).

The way I want to do it, is sell my 5770 - Had a look on ebay and there's only a couple of used ones, so I'm not sure whether it'll sell at all, but around £50 seems to be the price, and I'd be happy with that.

Then (well, before) buy a new card which comes with free games that I can sell off to get some money back. The only thing is that the games (batman, dirt 3 and deus ex) are not worth much, only about £25 on ebay :( So not much money to get back, but still, £50 from my card and £50 from the games then £50 I can put down I could get a £150 card.

So please, recommend me a £150 including delivery card. I don't know the difference between ATI and nvidia, and to be fair from what I've heard there's not much in it so I'm not bothered whether it's one or the other so long as it's better (and I'm talking about noticeably better, not a couple of mhz better) than my old 5770.

Regards :D
 
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-126-MS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1866

On having the 6850 (now upgrading) to the 6950 i can say that the 6xxx series is brilliant. If not a little loud at times i think the above card would actually be quiet and cool. clocked to 930mhz too which is nice. Bench marks on these are nice and in fareness my 6850 at the moment runs everything i want with decent FPS so this one would stomp mine :)

***edit...sorry i didnt include delivery but do another 50 ish posts and you will get it free delivery
 
Can I point out that my 5770 is clocked to 900 Mhz core and 1400mhz Memory. Just looking at the 6870 cards and they look very good!
 
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That one looks the dog's dangles too!

XFX HD 6870 Black DD cooling AMD Radeon Graphics Card - 1GB
HD-687A-ZDBC - 1GB XFX HD 6870 Black Double D cooling, 4600MHz GDDR5, GPU 940MHz, 1120 Stream Processors, DVI/ HDMI/ mDP

Chipset: HD 6870
Edition: Black Edition
Chipset Features: 3rd Generation TeraScale Engine
Accelerated Video Transcoding
AMD HD3D
ATI Avivo™ HD
ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU technology
ATI Eyefinity Technology
ATI PowerPlay™
Microsoft DirectX® 11
Microsoft Windows 7 support
OpenGL 4.0
Unified Video Decoder 3
Manufacturing process: 40 nm
Cores: 1120
Core Clock: 940 MHz
Shader Clock:
Memory: 1GB
Memory Bit Rate: 256 Bit
Memory Type: GDDR5
Memory Clock: 4600 MHz
Cooling: Dual Fan
Interface: PCIe 2.1 (x16)
Connectivity: 1 x Dual Link DVI-I
1 x DVI
1 x HDMI
2 x mini DisplayPort
SLI:
SLI Type: N/A
HDCP Ready:
Width: Dual Slot
CrossFire:
Crossfire Type: CrossFireX
Low Profile Compatible:
Low Profile Support:
Package Type: Retail
Maximum GPU Power:
Maximum GPU Temperature:
 
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Interesting question. It started off as kharekatoh about 4 or 5 years ago. I had a roleplay book that I was trying to read and there was a port called khare, it was on the front cover. I quite liked the name, and at the time I had a poster up on my wall oh a Japanese Motogp rider called Daijiro Kato. I mixed Khare and kato, and added the H at the end for no reason hehe. Kharekatoh was my username for a number of years until people started knowing me as khare on the VW community, both online and in person (I am member of a few VW Golf forums). Eventually I shortened it to khare :) Loads of people ask me how it's pronounced, I've heard from krakatoa (volcano) to Curry-cat-toe hahaha!

Khare is as in kerry, but with an a rather than e, and not so much emphasis on the rr. A bit like The footballer Kaka and "re" as in recruit, without the cruit obviously. Ka-re.
Katoh is again Ka, but the toh is said as in like tour without the r. So Ka-tou. Ka-re-Ka-tou.

Long explanation to a username hahaha
 
Interesting question. It started off as kharekatoh about 4 or 5 years ago. I had a roleplay book that I was trying to read and there was a port called khare, it was on the front cover.

Khare : Cityport of Traps!

I knew it! :) Great books, how I got into gaming in the first place. :)
 
Have you thought about getting another 5770 and cross firing them if you are on a budget? Not sure performance wise where that would be compared to a 6870 though
 
If it helps I had the 5770 then a 6850 and now a GTX 570 and very happy I switched to the green side. Depending on game optimisation there's not a lot in it between those two, I think the 470 has a slight edge though. Especially if you get one which clocks to 480 levels.

This would seem a good deal Just realise dyou already linked it. I would go for the 470 personally.
 
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What's your view on a refurbed card? 1 year warranty I think pretty much cover any possible problems, if anything goes wrong from a repaired card it'll be in the first few months right?
 
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