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What Nvidia Card for Gaming?

Honestly3K

Honestly3K

Honestly3K

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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 :D
 
I would help to know the rest of your system specs

CPU, PSU, what resolution you play at?

In essence you want the highest amount of cores, with the highest amount of vram, and the quickest speeds you can buy.

In your budget you are really only talking a 770, however if you stretched to £350 your talking a 780 which is quicker and has more ram.
 
ndaar said:
In your budget you are really only talking a 770, however if you stretched to £350 your talking a 780 which is quicker and has more ram.
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This.

Look into how much second hand 7950's are going for on fleabay, you might be in for a welcome surprise, selling on your 7950 could get you more money than you thought due to demand for mining, it may leave you with a larger budget letting you push for the 780.
 
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 :)
 
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Loving my 780 GHZ edition - was quite reluctant to upgrade from a pair of heavily overclocked GTX470s in SLI but saw some decent gains and runs everything smooth with max settings :) it is quite a bit of extra money to put down to get a 780 though.
 
i dont think a 770 will offer you much more than what u already have , far better to save for a bit longer and get a 780.budget wise i'd actually suggest a 290 but u dont want amd so best you just save more
 
I purchased a Gainwood GTX780 for £399 on Monday, this has since been reduced by OC to£379. In my opinion at that price this is a good bargain, the card is very quiet in fact so quiet my HDD makes more noise than this card. I have a i5-4670 not overclocked and have played Metro, BF4, Assassins Creed Black Flag at ultra settings without needing to even look at overclocking the card and am getting 60 frames no problem the card could easily go above this but as I only have a 60Hz Monitor I'm keeping it at that level.

I think for a GTX780 at under £400 you can't go wrong with this card.
 
The offers in the 780 range tend to change, sometimes the MSI one has been on offer for £365 which I think represents good value.
Currently the gigabyte, or inno are on offer which are both good cards.
 
A GTX770 is not that big of an upgrade over a 7950. Second hand GTX780 will fall into your budget and give a very decent performance increase of ~30-40% at max OC. Go for one of the following brands and you are covered under warranty as the cover is by GPU serial, not original purchaser.

MSI
EVGA
Gigabyte
 
I would suggest just be patient I bought a new PC 2 months ago then ran out of funds so had to stick my Nvidia GT640 and use that which was frustrating as you can imagine, but as you have £300 already try and put aside another £100 then buy as then you have a choice of GTX 780 cards and even if you miss out on the Weekly deals you will be able to get a GTX780 for under £400 now.
 
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