What card to get?

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My friend this Christmas is looking to buy into the PC market finally swayed he from the console gaming xD, His budget is around 600-700 quid and was curious what card he should get, He will mainly be playing Fifa 12 on it so not a massively dependant game.
 
FIFA 12 PC Requirements:
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66GHz or AMD Athlon II X2 245e.
Operating System: Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7.
CPU: 2.4 GHZ single core processor.
Sound Card: DirectX 9, 10, 11 compatible.
Graphics: NVidia GeForce 6800 or ATI Radeon X1600 at least, GeForce GTS 240 and Radeon HD 3870 recommended.
Hardware: Mouse and Keyboard.
Network: Internet connection for online mode.
Hard Drive: 6 GB to 12 GB.

Above requirements would suggest a powerfull graphics card is not necessary, nor for that matter a powerful cpu. However these are usually minimum requirements so I would aim for maybe an Amd 6850\6870 or Nvidia 560 which can be had for around £130 and should provide plenty of power and fit into the budget quite nicely.:)
 
would have been better in general hardware, but i'll give it a go speccing...



yeah yeah, I know I wen over. Did you need OS, k/b and mouse aswell?
 
I'd recommend waiting for the 7xxx series Radeons, should be due out shortly. Even if you don't get a 7 series it will lower the cost of the 5xxx and 6xxx series. I mean you can pick up a 5870 even now for about £180 or so and its still a very capable card, or for around £200 a 6850
 
geon106 said:
I'd recommend waiting for the 7xxx series Radeons, should be due out shortly. Even if you don't get a 7 series it will lower the cost of the 5xxx and 6xxx series. I mean you can pick up a 5870 even now for about £180 or so and its still a very capable card, or for around £200 a 6850
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Where on earth are you getting those prices from?

The 6850 is £122 from OcUK, probably cheaper again if you look around. The 5870 is not worth £180, still capable cards definitely, but you can get a 6950 for about £200, which is very similar to it.

The 7 series are apparently coming out in late Q4 2011, so December I'd say, and thats the low and mid range cards. The high end versions won't be out until Q1 2012 if the info floating around is anything to go by.
 
Nymins said:
Where on earth are you getting those prices from?

The 6850 is £122 from OcUK, probably cheaper again if you look around. The 5870 is not worth £180, still capable cards definitely, but you can get a 6950 for about £200, which is very similar to it.
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I meant to put 6950 sorry lol As for the prices of the 5870 thats the cheapest i've seen it but i've not really looked around for it for a few months so just an estimate from when i last saw its price on OCuK
 
Coolermaster Elite 335 Case
AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 850
AMD Stock Cooler (None overclocked systems)
Gigabyte M68MT-S2 DDR3 Motherboard
Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 4GB 1600MHz CAS9 Memory Kit
OcUK GeForce GTX 460 OC 1024MB GDDR5 Graphics Card
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000524AS)
OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black)
OnBoard Sound Card
OCZ ZS Series 650W PSU
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit
Fully Cable Managed
 
A little over:

Your basket
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
OcUK ATI Radeon 6950 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE DIRT3 & Deus Ex PC Games £194.99
(£162.49) £194.99
(£162.49)
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail with FREE TrackMania 2 Canyon PC Game £173.99
(£144.99) £173.99
(£144.99)
Asus P8P67 LE Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard ** B3 REVISION ** £74.99
(£62.49) £74.99
(£62.49)
Corsair Enthusiast Series TX 650W V2 High Performance '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CMPSU-650TXV2UK) £69.98
(£58.32) £69.98
(£58.32)
Microsoft Windows 7 Bundle - Home Premium 64 Bit £68.40
(£57.00) £68.40
(£57.00)
Options applied to the above product:
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000524AS) £44.99
(£37.49) £44.99
(£37.49)
Antec 100 One Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black £42.19
(£35.16) £42.19
(£35.16)
Kingston HyperX Blu 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9AD3B1K2/4G) £23.99
(£19.99) £23.99
(£19.99)
Samsung SH-S222AL/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA Lightscribe ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
(£14.16) £16.99
(£14.16)
Sub Total : £592.09
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £13.75
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £121.17
Total : £727.01
 
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