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Upgrading my graphics card

tallbeans

tallbeans

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At the moment I am running an old 'NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT' from a previous computer due to funding issues.

Now I have come to the decision that I will need to upgrade it but I am not entirely sure what graphics card to get that will be suitable.

I am currently running:

Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2120 CPU @ 3.30Ghz
16.0 GB RAM
Windows 7 64 Bit

The games I would like to run with this computer are games such as Chivalry Medieval Warfare, maybe Battlefield 3 and GTA IV/V.

So what graphics card would you recommend that would be suitable to run those games at a decent, playable setting? (Medium/High is prefferred) But being as cheap as possible.

Thanks for your help.
 
What is your motherboard and budget? it'd just be clearer and easier for me and others who see this post as to what a good option would be for you
 
a 7870 is pretty good bang for buck and would play all of those games on good settings (assuming your screen res is 1080p or less) GTA IV is far more CPU than GPU intensive though so your i3 is going to be more of a bottleneck than anything in that.
 
If you can afford ~£160 ish then I'd look at the AMD 7870 or GTX 660 (similar performance and price, look at reviews to see which performs better in the games you're most interested in) otherwise for £130-140 you can pick up an AMD 7850.
 
Whoa, Didn't expect that amount of replies, thanks.

My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-H61MA-D2V and my budget for a graphics card is just under £200.

If there is anything else you need to know to aid me further let me know and I'll try my best to give you the information.
 
tallbeans said:
Whoa, Didn't expect that amount of replies, thanks.

My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-H61MA-D2V and my budget for a graphics card is just under £200.

If there is anything else you need to know to aid me further let me know and I'll try my best to give you the information.
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Not unless you can tell us anything?

This one is by far the best bang for £
VTX3D HD 7870 Black Boost Edition ~£180 (1536 stream processors)
It does not have the best cooler on it, a little more noisy and a little warmer than other more expensive ones, but honestly the thing is faster than a GTX 660TI.
I have one myself :)

MSI HD 7870 Black Knight 2048MB GDDR5 £160 (1280 stream processors)
Not as fast as the one above, but still a fast card (a bit faster than the GTX 660) and unbeatable for its money.

Alternatively.

KFA2 GeForce GTX 660 2048MB £170
 
humbug said:
Not unless you can tell us anything?

This one is by far the best bang for £
VTX3D HD 7870 Black Boost Edition ~£180 (1536 stream processors)
It does not have the best cooler on it, a little more noisy and a little warmer than other more expensive ones, but honestly the thing is faster than a GTX 660TI.
I have one myself :)

MSI HD 7870 Black Knight 2048MB GDDR5 £160 (1280 stream processors)
Not as fast as the one above, but still a fast card (a bit faster than the GTX 660) and unbeatable for its money.

Alternatively.

KFA2 GeForce GTX 660 2048MB £170
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Thanks for your advice. I think I am going to take your suggestion of getting the MSI 7870. Looks like a good buy and with your opinion and some reviews I have read it seems like the right choice. But I do have a question about the 7870, Would I be able to run dual monitors using the HDMI port and the VGA port? Because at the moment my current graphics card has a DVI, VGA and HDMI ports but I wasn't able to run dual monitors using the VGA & HDMI. I had to use the DVI & VGA.
 
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Well there's no VGA out on the 7870 card but you can buy a passive mini-DP to DVI adapter and run one of the screens from that.
 
humbug said:
Not unless you can tell us anything?

This one is by far the best bang for £
VTX3D HD 7870 Black Boost Edition ~£180 (1536 stream processors)
It does not have the best cooler on it, a little more noisy and a little warmer than other more expensive ones, but honestly the thing is faster than a GTX 660TI.
I have one myself :)

Have you got any figures for this? As I thought the 660ti was faster going by benchmarks I've seen, just wondered what the difference is?
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Again, if they are the same price why get a 7870 when you can get a 660ti which is faster at stock.


Ahh looked at prices and the 7870 is best for under £200 as the 660ti is £227 at overclockers.
 
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