What Nvidia Card for Gaming?

[Honestly3K]

Hi folks,

I maybe in the market soon for a new Nvidia PCIe 3.0 GPU.
As I have had nothing but compatibility issues in my build with my HIS 7950.
Its put me off AMD cards. But please don't ask me to go into this, its a sore subject ha ha!


Can anyone out there explain what specs I need to be looking at when buying an Nvidia card, clock speeds, Ram speed/size, memory interface, processor cores etc? To be used in a fairly high spec gaming machine.

My budget is around £250 to at a very maximum £300.

All advice very much welcomed thank you

 

[Honestly3K]

Thanks guys,

My spec is
i7 3770k, currently OC @ 3.9 but will push for more when I really look into it
Asus Z77 Maximus V Formula
HIS 7950 (which was RMA'd ok with overclockers, but isn't compatible with some area of my system, so getting binned/sold)

750w Corsair ZT series bronze PSU
16gb 1600mhz corsair vengeance
120gb vertex 2 SSD
1tb HD

Resolution in windows is 1920x1080p, don't really play any big games at the moment due to my compatibility issues

I was just reading a few threads about the 780, seems a big jump over the 770's, in both price and specs. Its worth it? How much better will a 780 be over my HIS 7950? Im told having a 384bit bus width is a good thing to have which I have on my 7950 at the moment

Thank you

 

[Honestly3K]

Cool, thanks for the advice guys.

Are there any specific 780s in the £360 range that stand out above the others?

 

[Honestly3K]

Thanks for your opinions guys.

I just need to find out that it is indeed my 7950 causing my issues and not my cpu-
Then I can start making a shortlist!

See thread:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18575259