Spec me a GPU

dirtychinchilla · 4 Aug 2011 at 20:00

Hey guys,

I need a GPU for under £100. I don't play a huge number of games but I'd like the capability to run most games at fairly high spec. Primarily The Witcher 2 right now at max would be wonderful.

I was looking at the preorder for theXFX AMD Radeon HD 6770 1024MB GDDR5 PCIe. At £85 this seems like a bit of a steal,do yu think thiswill be suitable?

I'm running an i5 @4.5GHz, 4GB ram. ANything else you need to know please ask.

Cheers,
Jono

dirtychinchilla · 4 Aug 2011 at 20:01

Haha! Is that card substantially better? Why the annoyance?

dirtychinchilla · 4 Aug 2011 at 20:05

Haha fantastic, thanks man. I'll try and squeeze some funds out of somewhere then!

I feel a bit silly going for the first suggested gpu. Could you recommend any others? And as this is an OCUK card, do you know what the outside equivalent is so that I can read up on it?

dirtychinchilla · 4 Aug 2011 at 20:05

Moothead2 said:
Tell me how you get on

Do you expect it to go badly then?

dirtychinchilla · 4 Aug 2011 at 20:09

Ok cool. 1440x900

dirtychinchilla · 4 Aug 2011 at 20:12

stulid said:
Its this - http://www.msi.com/product/vga/N460GTX-M2D1GD5-OC.html

Thanks. There aren't any existing reviews that I can find sadly

dirtychinchilla · 4 Aug 2011 at 20:13

Awesome

so is that really the best card for the money then?

dirtychinchilla · 4 Aug 2011 at 20:16

And is it possible to put better cooling on that? Sorry, I'm quite ignorant about this subject!

dirtychinchilla · 4 Aug 2011 at 20:17

stulid said:
Its clocked between the GTX460 highlighted in Blue and the Hawk in Green
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GTX_460_HAWK/28.html

Cool, that helps me put it into perspective a bit. Thanks!

dirtychinchilla · 4 Aug 2011 at 20:17

Moothead2 said:
For the money, yeah . Just been looking around and you could probably even get away with AA and higher settings in The Witcher 2 at your res . Just make sure you disable Ubersampling, that hits the FPS very, very hard.

Alright, that's excellent! Now to find £110...

Edit: Going up the price range a bit to maybe £130, would I be able to get a lot more for my money?

dirtychinchilla · 4 Aug 2011 at 20:38

I saw that in the deals thread. It looks pretty good, tho I'm uninterested in the games. Is it worth the extra £20?

dirtychinchilla · 4 Aug 2011 at 20:39

For example, is this better?

dirtychinchilla · 4 Aug 2011 at 20:45

Haha well I was thinking that selling would be a good idea, although I'd probably end up just playing them tbh....

Cheers guys, just gotta get the money together and I think I'll get the 6870

dirtychinchilla · 6 Aug 2011 at 14:14

So in the deals for this week thread, here, there are a few decent GPUs. Now, I haven't managed t get £130 together, though if I do, I know which GPU I'll be ordering. Are any of the GPUs in that thread worth my money though?

dirtychinchilla · 6 Aug 2011 at 14:25

Hmm so it might me worth holding out for the 6870? I couldn't care less about the games really. If I got that bundle I'd probably sell them. Wish I could get the money from the games and then buy the GPU haha!

I really should wait it out...