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Upgrade from a 7870HD

LoopyOrc

LoopyOrc

LoopyOrc

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Hi everyone!

As the title states I'm looking for an upgrade from my 7870HD and have roughly £250 to spend. If a card is suggested for a little bit more I would be willing to pay a bit extra! I don't really have a preference for AMD or NVIDIA so I just want the best bang for my buck.

I've got an i5 4760k and a 550W 80+ Gold PSU and would like a nice card to complete the set up as I want to do mostly gaming with it.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

Cheers
 
I actually recently upgraded my XFX DD 7870 2GB to an Nvidea Asus GTX780 Poseidon so I would recommend that if it were not double your budget at £500 lol. (Cheaper GTX 780's are available)

You would be looking at the GTX 770 2GB series for that kind of money I think, not sure how much of an upgrade it would be to a 2GB 7870 tho. Maybe worth comparing online reviews.
 
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Do you think there's any worry about new technology coming out soon? Do you predict a price drop for any cards? I've been out of the loop the last couple of years so am not really up to date
 
It is confirmed that all AMD (GCN) HD 7###, R5, R7, R9 2## series GPUs support DX12.

Also DX12 is developed for the XB1, the XB1 has an AMD GCN GPU in it. so it goes without saying. yes.
 
LoopyOrc said:
I've been selling a few bits on ebay and have come into a little more money. Was looking at this:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-341-SP&tool=3

It's on offer this week and the reviews I've looked at look great. I might pay the extra and go for a 290 instead! Am I missing out on a lot by not having an NVIDIA card in terms of physx?
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Good card but your 550 PSU is a bit under the recommended 600W or greater power requirement, may be worth Googling your PSU and the card to see if anyone has tried it or had any issues.
 
LoopyOrc said:
The likes of BF4, Metro Last Light, Arma 3, Diablo 3. Will be playing Wildstar when that comes out too I reckon.
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Mixed, BF4 has Mantle, i refuse to go back to DX in BF4 now, its indescribably smooth and delivers better latency.

Metro Last Light has NV GPU PhysX, so for that an NV GPU would be better than an AMD one.
 
Captain_Bosh said:
Good card but your 550 PSU is a bit under the recommended 600W or greater power requirement, may be worth Googling your PSU and the card to see if anyone has tried it or had any issues.
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Would it underperform by a lot do you reckon? My CPU isn't overclocked and I only have two hard drives attached to it right now, don't plan on adding anything but this card to be honest.
 
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