Upgrade time - Your recommendations are required

Vidar · 16 Jan 2015 at 14:53

Hey guys, having got a bit of spare money and deciding against going for a PS4 or Xbox 1 due to a lack of TV I'm thinking it's time to upgrade my GPU as the GeForce GTX 570 1280MB GDDR5 I'm currently using is starting to struggle with the newer releases.

Absolute top end of my budget is £300 but I'd like to save as much as I can while still getting a noticeable upgrade, I would prefer to stick with Nvidia but am open to anything.

Kaapstad · 16 Jan 2015 at 14:58

GTX 970.

Geeman1979 · 16 Jan 2015 at 14:59

arc@css · 16 Jan 2015 at 15:02

opethdisciple · 16 Jan 2015 at 15:09

i'm goingto go against the grain here and say.... 970.

rodt99 · 16 Jan 2015 at 15:14

i'm goingto go against the grain here and say.... 970.

+1

elrasho · 16 Jan 2015 at 15:24

295 X2... Jokes

970

Disco_P · 16 Jan 2015 at 15:31

I would recommend 970.

The alternative is a 290(x).

Aa83 · 16 Jan 2015 at 15:32

As long as you have a decent PSU, you may also want to think about one of the 780Ti's on offer at under or around £300.

Vidar · 16 Jan 2015 at 15:59

I've got the SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 750W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply which I believe is pretty good...

A 970 would be awesome but was looking for a bit more variety, maybe around the £200 mark that would give me a good upgrade, as far as a 970 or 780ti go what should I be looking at?

Squink · 16 Jan 2015 at 16:11

780ti is the faster card

H3x0rc!st · 16 Jan 2015 at 16:17

970 - This along with the ROG Swift has been one of my best purchases for quite a while

Marine-RX179 · 16 Jan 2015 at 16:43

elrasho said:
295 X2... Jokes 970

If someone get one new at £300, they'd be mad to go for the 970 instead

ICEx21 · 16 Jan 2015 at 16:53

I'd genuinely go against the grain here and go with the 290(X) and I have 970 SLI, this is based on my experience with both of those cards.
However you have stated you'd prefer Nvidia so in that case go for the 970.

se_vietboi · 16 Jan 2015 at 17:04

And this is why AMD needs to hurry with new cards.

RanxZy · 16 Jan 2015 at 17:13

se_vietboi said:
And this is why AMD needs to hurry with new cards.

Yes until they do NVIDIA don't have to release anything with more performance because the 900 series is selling so well.

Westie · 16 Jan 2015 at 17:14

970 G1 Gaming

Marine-RX179 · 16 Jan 2015 at 17:42

RanxZy said:
Yes until they do NVIDIA don't have to release anything with more performance because the 900 series is selling so well.

Cards that are not much faster than last gen's flying off the shelf certainly ain't helping. AMD releasing new cards aside, people that already have 290 or 780 insensibly replacing them with 970 certainly sending a big fat message to Nvidia saying "we are eating up the efficiency hype and don't need faster card"

almighty15 · 16 Jan 2015 at 17:47

mulpsmebeauty said:
780ti is the faster card

Not on the newer games it's not, drivers are really not doing the 780ti any favors just of late.

Squink · 16 Jan 2015 at 21:06

almighty15 said:
Not on the newer games it's not, drivers are really not doing the 780ti any favors just of late.

Links to show any consistent performance difference in favour of the 970? Last I looked the ti was quicker across the board.

Or just the site and I'll google it meself