Upgrade from x1 Nvidia GTX 560 TI

[Enfield]

Hi all,

I'm looking to upgrade my graphics card as I noticed when playing ARMA 2 on highest settings, it's quite laggy. On ARMA 1 it was fine on all the highest settings.

I've ramped them down a bit but it looks so good on the highest settings I want to be able to play on them and can't help but think it's the graphics card holding back, therefore I would like a new one.

My budget is £250, PC specs as follows:

Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard
Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz @ 4.60GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155
Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 16GB DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 560Ti OC WindForce 2X 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express

Antec TruePower New Modular 750W '80 Plus Bronze' PSU

Any advice is much appreciated.

 

[SeraphX]

YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS HD 7950 IceQ BOOST 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H795QC3G2M) with Crysis 3 & Bioshock PC Games £251.99
Total : £251.99 (includes shipping : FREE).

 

[ArchAndroid]

7950 is the best value for money but you could also opt for the 660Ti if you want to keep it green.

 

[Enfield]

Thanks.

Just bought the one SeraphX posted.


Cheers.

 

[Enfield]

Received it today only to find that it's not compatible with my motherboard.

Will OCUK take it back do you think?

 

[Nelly]

Received it today only to find that it's not compatible with my motherboard.

Will OCUK take it back do you think?

Motherboard using the latest BIOS?

 

[Enfield]

Indeed, checked that two days ago.

My mobo has a nvidia logo on it, so I checked the manual and it says it supports intel chipsets only. Should have checked this first, what an idiot.

 

[Orcvader]

Have you actually tried the card in the system? It seems very, very unlikely for the board to be incompatible.

I have a Z68 chipset based board as well with a 7950 working just fine in it.

 

[Enfield]

Yeah, though I am now starting to think if I had it in the wrong slot or something...

 

[OptimaLnrg]

Received it today only to find that it's not compatible with my motherboard.

Will OCUK take it back do you think?

Supports ATI™ Quad CrossFireX™, 3-Way CrossFireX™ and CrossFireX™
Supports NVIDIA® Quad SLI™ and SLI™

 

[Enfield]

Maybe it's faulty then.

The only other thing I can think of is that it's not getting enough power or something?

Or could it be something as simple as resetting the CMOS?

 

[OptimaLnrg]

plugged in both power cables?

 

[Enfield]

Sure did.

Off out. Thanks for the help tonight.