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upgrading to radeon or nvida

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so I need to upgrade my old hd5770 to play bf4 which is my best option and what card should my starting point be and is one better than the other .
plus I may get a 144hz monitor also

thanks

ray
 
I had not decided that bit but poss £300 or maybe a bit more , I was looking to find out what my starting point and recommend card .
I don't want to get a card and be disappointed

ray
 
BF4 will get the Mantle patch this month (maybe) and will favour AMD cards. So if BF4 is your game then go for a custom cooled R9 290 when they drop in price.

This could take a month or so and if you are in a rush R9 280 custom cooled varieties are decent decently priced. Reference R9 290 cards are loud unless fan speed is kept bellow 45% (IMHO) and the only way to do that is to cap your FPS at 60hz. If you are get a 144hz an R9 290 will be running flat out and will be far too loud.
 
I would go for a custom cooled 280x, like the gigabyte windforce or the msi gaming edition. You should be very pleased with either of those with your current hardware.
 
As Mantle is a complete unknown... perhaps not best to use it as a purchase decision.

Under your budget, I would probably go 280X.

Sometimes on budget (when it goes on sale), a reference 290. Though I believe the stock cooler can be noisy, so ignore that if you are sensitive to noise.

A bit above £300, again, either a 290 (if not on sale), or a 4GB GTX770 - such as Gainward, which will have custom cooler and be quieter.

A bit more again, there is the MSI 780 OC gaming card, which is a very good price at £359. If you can stretch budget, I would go with this.
 
Can't go wrong with a 780, I'm using two for 5910x1080 with everything maxed out on everything I have and it runs smooth albeit with the VRAM maxed on a lot of applications.

For 1080 gaming, I would think one would last you the next few years.

For nearly £300 for the radeon you could go a little extra and have the Nvidia, considering it is 50% more powerful.

I might just have a spare one going soon as well ;)
 
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+1 for 280x, better card at that price range than a Nvidia around the same price imo, 780 is going to be better but its going to cost more, and for the price of a 780 you might aswell get a 290 which is better etc etc.
 
SiDeards73 said:
+1 for 280x, better card at that price range than a Nvidia around the same price imo, 780 is going to be better but its going to cost more, and for the price of a 780 you might aswell get a 290 which is better etc etc.
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I'd argue the 770 SC ACX 4GB re-clocked to classified clocks for the same price (can be had for 250-270) will blow the 280 away :)

But each to their own :)
 
i have a similar question guys, i have arround £330 to spend, ive been looking at the 290's but the stock cooler has put me off it so its either going to be a

770 ACX 2GB
770 Classy
R9 280x

what would you go for ?
 
I'm a bit of a fan of the ACX as you can probably tell, I had two 760 SC's clocked between FTW and classified clocks with a more aggressive fan curve and they were still silent and very cool.

I think that cooler does a great job, so it's easy to overclock. Even SLI'd with some heat soak the top GPU was running at max in the high 60's with the additional clock. They idled not far off ambient tbh.

Now that was experience with the 760 true, so I can't say for sure if they exactly handle the bigger cards in the same way, but they are worth a look. They aren't too power hungry either.

I've seen 770 4GB ACX's going for between 250 and 270, I would say definitely worth a look at that price.

I don't know if EVGA speed bins their GPU's on the 7 series, but both I had could go to the much more expensive cards clock speeds with little sacrifice.

*edit, only dislike are the fragile rattly fins on the card, not really a problem once you have fitted them in though.
 
Ahh I lied, looks like they are currently 300 for the 4gb 770 with ACX, though I had seen them cheaper than that.
 
Boomstick777 said:
Another £25 on a R9 290 gets you an extra GB of vram a load more shaders / performance. A 280X only makes sense at around £230, once you step up near £300 it has to be the R9 290...
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Unless your bothered about noise, a custom cooled R9 290 will be £350+

Also the reference 290's are suffering a few teething issues

Id say that 280x is a very good buy
 
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