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Upgrading from a 560ti, could do with some help

Zanna

Zanna

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Ok, Due to having to pay for car repairs last year, I unfortunately never made the upgrade I was planning. However it's a new year and I have some extra money lying about.
I can probably spend around the £300-£350 mark this time and I'm hoping to grab something that will last me a while.

What are the best options open to me?
I currently run 2 monitors each at 1600x900 (all I need atm)
 
To be honest, the 560Ti should be plenty for that res. If you are getting dips/lower frame rates for games in general, it would more likely to be caused by CPU bottleneck.

What CPU are you using, and what games you generally play?
 
Need to know CPU and PSU.
560TI would struggle at that res in the latest games (if you want max settings).
 
nicnik said:
Need to know CPU and PSU.
560TI would struggle at that res in the latest games (if you want max settings).
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Crysis 3 and Metro yes, but everything else, I think the GTX560Ti would handle most of them very well for 1600x900 (without ridiculous settings like 8xAA, UberSampling, SuperSampling etc of course).
 
As mentioned would help to know:

What games you play/ plan on playing?
CPU and PSU?
If you intend to upgrade t a higher resolution any time soon?

As already said best options at around £350 are currently

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Geforce GTX 780 Gaming Edition OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £369.95
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Tri-X "BF4 Edition" 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (11227-00-50G) £365.99
Total : £745.54 (includes shipping : £8.00).



But need to check if your CPU & PSU will handle it.
 
Currently running an I5-2500k at 4.5ghz with a 650watt psu. Use only one of the monitors to game, other is usually on twitch or something. I play a lot of different games but I do like to play them on max settings and this is where the 560ti is started to show it's age.
 
Zanna said:
Currently running an I5-2500k at 4.5ghz with a 650watt psu. Use only one of the monitors to game, other is usually on twitch or something. I play a lot of different games but I do like to play them on max settings and this is where the 560ti is started to show it's age.
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Is your GTX560Ti on stock clock or is it already overclocked?

Most GTX560Ti can clock up to 950-1000MHz on the core clock, coming from the moderate stock clock of 822MHz.
 
My 560ti is running the stock speeds, terrible overclocker though(Palit 2gb model). Moment you even oc it by 1mhz the thing just freezes up and forces a hard reset.
Running a AsusP8Z68-V/GEN3 as my mobo btw, in case this helps.
 
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Yeah I think the two options I linked for a 780 or 290 are the best option for your price point. I would suggest upgrading the monitor to a higher resolution as soon as you can, or you'll not be using the GPU to there potential.
 
The 780 does look very nice, especially with the money off. I think my 560ti may be on the way out tbh it's started running at 100% in several games (WOT,Metro:LL,Witcher2 Skyrim espeicllay with ENB running)
Will I be ok with my current psu?
 
Zanna said:
The 780 does look very nice, especially with the money off. I think my 560ti may be on the way out tbh it's started running at 100% in several games (WOT,Metro:LL,Witcher2 Skyrim espeicllay with ENB running)
Will I be ok with my current psu?
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Running what at 100%? The GPU usage, or the fanspeed at 100%?

But yea for some of those games you mentioned, it might worth the upgrade.
 
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