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Recommend me a graphics card

Jason2

Jason2

Jason2

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Hi everyone,

Could you you please recommend me a decent graphics card with a budget of around £160? Will be playing all the latest games plus fsx. I have an i5 3570k cpu. I was thinking of getting a MSI GTX 570 Twin Frozr II, but if there's a better card on the market for my budget that please do let me know!

Thanks.
 
Very easy, just a case of moving a slider. Use software such as MSI Afterburner, and adjust in small increments.
 
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For FSX I would personally stick with NVIDIA. I recently upgraded my GTX470 and spent ages trawling through countless threads on flight sim forms and the general consensus was that AMD cards still have issues with shaders and cloud textures. Of course there are people who do get good performance out of their AMD cards in FSX but as I'm used to NVIDIA I chose to stick. I'm sure either the 660 or the 7850 would be fine (perhaps after some tweaking). If FSX is not the main priority then the 7850 does offer incredible bang for buck.

What resolution are you gaming at?

What is your i5-3570K overclocked to?
 
shadow_boxer said:
For FSX I would personally stick with NVIDIA. I recently upgraded my GTX470 and spent ages trawling through countless threads on flight sim forms and the general consensus was that AMD cards still have issues with shaders and cloud textures. Of course there are people who do get good performance out of their AMD cards in FSX but as I'm used to NVIDIA I chose to stick. I'm sure either the 660 or the 7850 would be fine (perhaps after some tweaking). If FSX is not the main priority then the 7850 does offer incredible bang for buck.

What resolution are you gaming at?

What is your i5-3570K overclocked to?
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Resolution: 1920 × 1200

And I'm gonna overclock my i5 to around 4.6ghz, perhaps a little less due to heat issues with ivy.

Thanks for the help.
 
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