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What GPU should I buy with £135?

Smoogels

Smoogels

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Hey guys.

Thank you all for your help in the last few days - my build is almost ready to be ordered. However, one issue remains.

I have set a nice £135 aside for the GPU. What graphic card would you recommend? I wish to play BF3 as high as possible and I also wish to have the option to have a dual mointer setup in a few weeks/months time.

At this point in time my CPU will be a AMD FX-6 6100 Black Edition 6 Core 3.3Ghz (please dont say "go intel", I am AMD fan and would love this CPU for several personal reasons)

Would it be worth knocking £30/£40 off the GPU and getting a better Bulldozer CPU (the 8 core?) or would I be OK with games with the better GPU and slightly weaker core?

My resolution is 1920x1080

So in summary
1) What GPU would you recommend for £135
2) If not, would you recommend lowering the GPU budjet by £40 and getting a stronger Bulldozer CPU? (the 8 core)


Hardware is all rather confusing =/

Thanks in advance :D
 
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By sticking with AMD your ignoring everyones advice. So is there any point in giving you more? :D (FX-6 6100 is not suited to your requirements)
 
Sadly, I cannot afford any decent Intel solution.

I'm currently running on a Intel i5 750, which is a old model and is about 3 years old. The AMD hex core is a improvement, according to benchmarks, and I am happy with that. Looking at cpubenchmark.net I can't see any Intels that is as big as a improvement for about the same price.

It was a massive squeeze to get this CPU in my build and really I can't even afford £10 more on it.
 
I'm afraid I cannot stick with my current setup for several reasons.

It just seems to have some problems now a days and considering all parts of it is old, I just want a new one. Motherboard has been playing up, HDD has small issues and generally the whole wireing is pretty bad in this system. So I assume a fresh start would be best.

I also wish to build my own system, havent done so before (dad built this one) and it really intrests me. Would be handy before my IT colleage course to.

Sorry if I am ignoring your advice - but I don't feel that overclocking this current one in my withering system is going to be reliable.
 
My advice is go and do some research and then come back here. You seem intent on lowering your system specs and any good advice, you are choosing to ignore.

Your questions should be "why is my system poor/not running correctly/having HDD probs" but you seem set in downgrading and good luck.
 
gregster said:
My advice is go and do some research and then come back here. You seem intent on lowering your system specs and any good advice, you are choosing to ignore.

Your questions should be "why is my system poor/not running correctly/having HDD probs" but you seem set in downgrading and good luck.
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+1

An additional question is if you can't solve this current issues what will you do when it happens on a bulldozer build?
 
Tried a fresh install?

If the HDD is damaged, replace it. Also check the memory/current Graphics card. The i5 750 is still a decent CPU.

If you wanna try building take it apart, clean it and rebuild. :D
 
What's your full system spec at the minute? Is it a prebuilt jobby from Dell/HP or a custom build? What specific issues are you having? Estimated budget for this revamp?
 
gregster said:
Best advice I have read for a while.
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Actually in this instance your post below is even better...

gregster said:
My advice is go and do some research and then come back here. You seem intent on lowering your system specs and any good advice, you are choosing to ignore.

Your questions should be "why is my system poor/not running correctly/having HDD probs" but you seem set in downgrading and good luck.
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jallan said:
+1

An additional question is if you can't solve this current issues what will you do when it happens on a bulldozer build?
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Simple, he will just build a new rig around the next AMD release even if stock Intel clocks from 3 years ago still beat it and at a lower price. You have to remember...

Smoogels said:
I am AMD fan and would love this CPU for several personal reasons
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...and that is apparently a potent enough combination to make him stick to what he thinks is "best".




Smoogels, please list your current build as shadow_boxer has requested above. Include the motherboard, RAM, PSU, heatsink and GPU details.

Sasahara has given you a link above that shows even the 8 core 8150 is slower than your i5 750 at standard clocks so that means the 6 core 6100 is going to be even worse. If we find that your motherboard allows even a moderate amount of overclocking then that gap just widens further making your "upgrade" to the 6100 even more pointless.

If you stick with your i5 750 now and either run it at stock clocks, or overclock it, then the money you save by not having to spend on a new motherboard and cpu can increase your current budget of £135 for the graphics card. Or perhaps keep the GPU budget the same and get an SSD instead with the spare money.
 
Smoogels said:
I'm afraid I cannot stick with my current setup for several reasons.

It just seems to have some problems now a days and considering all parts of it is old, I just want a new one. Motherboard has been playing up, HDD has small issues and generally the whole wireing is pretty bad in this system. So I assume a fresh start would be best.

I also wish to build my own system, havent done so before (dad built this one) and it really intrests me. Would be handy before my IT colleage course to.

Sorry if I am ignoring your advice - but I don't feel that overclocking this current one in my withering system is going to be reliable.
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I wanted to replace my cooler, that involved pretty much taking the whole computer apart as my early antec 1200 doesnt have cooler backplate access.

During this, I pretty much rebuilt the whole system ground up, apart from putting the psu inside the case.

There is nothing stopping you from taking you computer apart, getting the dust out. Making sure all them harddrive cables are still nicely plugged in.

Its just, most things general uses for a computer AMD can't keep up. They did have their day but that has long since past.

SSD, GPU would be great upgrades to that system overclock or not.
 
There is nothing wrong with the i5 750... still a very capable CPU. I think your better off stripping your current system down and rebuilding it with a proper CPU cooler to allow a 4ghz over clock as people have already advised.

Listen to the advise given here. ocuk have one of the best forums for hardware addicts imo :)
 
Either:

A) Get a 8120, and a 7750/70
B) Get a 6850, keep the 6100
C) Save up until you can get a 7850

I'd go for C if you can be patient!
 
Yea I have to agree with the above.

Your cpu is still very decent and probably better in games than the FX series.

Buy a decent gpu and hdd if needed and then take current computer apart, rebuild it and sort out all the wiring issues etc..

Benchmarks here. Scroll down to the bottom and you can see your cpu even with 1Ghz slower clockspeed is faster than the 8150!

Get a decent cooler and clock your 750!!
 
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I feel motivated enough by the OP to ditch my I7 980 and get a bullzozer! I just want something new and X79 costs too much, plus bullsosr has 2 extra cores! ....

This is simply trying to highlight the folly of the OP's plan to try help him realize his error.

P.S. the spelling errors for bulldozer were not intentional, but they look funny and shall not be corrected :p
 
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