Which GFX Card Should I Get ???

Kingy1968 · 19 Oct 2011 at 19:04

I've just purchased my new system, apart from a gfx card because I was uncertain of which one to get.....

I usually play games at 1920x1200 and sometime like to tinker about with Photoshop and do some video editing (Its My Hobby!!)

I am looking at these 3 cards but am still no wiser on which one to get..

The cards are :-

01. http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-272-SP&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1752
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 6950 FLEX 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with upto 5 Monitor Support & with FREE DIRT3 & Deus Ex Games [11188-04-40G]

02. http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-036-HS&tool=3
HIS ATI Radeon HD 6950 IceQ X Turbo 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE Dirt3 & Deus Ex PC Games [H695QNT2G2M]

03. http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-150-EA&tool=3
EVGA GeForce GTX 570 HD 2560MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **Supplied with FREE Batman: Arkham City PC game** [025-P3-1579-KR]

Any help on this problem is greatly appreciated and will finally let me get a good nights sleep....

Cheers Guys

rolypolyman · 19 Oct 2011 at 19:27

No.1 for me.
No.2 Fugly card
No.3 Not worth the money.

KNiVES · 19 Oct 2011 at 19:29

Option D:
Sapphire Toxic 6950 2GB
Only the best 6950 on the market.

Kingy1968 · 19 Oct 2011 at 21:38

so the 2.5gb 570 isnt worth the money and im better off getting 6950??

KiiYzOo · 19 Oct 2011 at 21:43

yes it is, it's more powerful than the 6950 and has more vram so more aa, this is the 570 btw

Cleeecooo · 19 Oct 2011 at 21:59

Kingy1968 said:
so the 2.5gb 570 isnt worth the money and im better off getting 6950??

The 570 is more powerful. Not worth an extra £100 though. £40, yes - £100, hell no

KiiYzOo said:
yes it is, it's more powerful than the 6950 and has more vram so more aa, this is the 570 btw

agreed, but the 2.5 gb is a waste of money TBH

Hotwired · 19 Oct 2011 at 22:05

Hang on, you posted the naff HIS 6950 but not the one with the really good cooler which is also on special offer which makes it cheaper than the cheesy one.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-042-HS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1752

Long card is long however.

Cooler overhangs both free sides of the PCB and down slightly into a 3rd slot.

Currently idling at 39 degrees in my case.

Cleeecooo · 19 Oct 2011 at 22:06

Hotwired said:
Hang on, you posted the naff HIS 6950 but not the one with the really good cooler which is also on special offer which makes it cheaper than the cheesy one.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-042-HS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1752

Long card is long however.

Cooler overhangs both free sides of the PCB and down slightly into a 3rd slot.

That card really makes me want to throw up :/

Kingy1968 · 19 Oct 2011 at 22:10

As I said I game at 1920x1200 so would the 570 being the more powerful card be more futureproof with the extra vram as I am using a higher resolution??

Cleeecooo · 19 Oct 2011 at 22:10

Kingy1968 said:
As I said I game at 1920x1200 so would the 570 being the more powerful card be more futureproof with the extra vram as I am using a higher resolution??

1200p isn't really a high res

When you start getting to 2560x1440 is when you really need the VRAM

Kingy1968 · 19 Oct 2011 at 22:11

Cleeecooo said:
That card really makes me want to throw up :/

Snap thats why I didnt even consider it... lol

Weird though how we go on looks of certain things....

The stock picture to me makes it look like a cheap £50 card....

Hotwired · 19 Oct 2011 at 22:13

Cleeecooo said:
That card really makes me want to throw up :/

Your problem is you care what a circuit looks like through your case window not the practicality.

Me on the other hand, I have solid and sound muffling panels on my case so I can get the white and blue graphics card and not care

ThePengu1n · 19 Oct 2011 at 22:16

Get a 2gb 6950, whichever is cheapest

Pete.Dakota · 19 Oct 2011 at 22:20

Cleeecooo said:
1200p isn't really a high res

When you start getting to 2560x1440 is when you really need the VRAM

Plenty of recent games exceed 1280MB VRAM at 1200p nowadays. Often 1.5GB isn't enough. I love the power of the 570, but IMO it needs more VRAM: 1.5 or 2GB.

Wiry · 19 Oct 2011 at 22:31

I have seen people max a 570's 1280mb vram out on games, in which If I was to buy a gpu, it would have to be 2gb or over, just a suggestion. This is the paragraph - " Anyone here play/played Grand theft auto 4? If so you've seen the "graphics" screen where you adjust the game to look as good as you can get it to. On that screen it tells you how much of your video RAM you'll be using up. I can max everything, except the viewing distance. If I go any farther than "65" on viewing distance, I'm in the red. It goes to 100.

Meaning that the card is out of RAM, basically. Its telling me that I'll see crummy framerates since its going to be using up all of my video RAM. If you wanted to run the game on max, it says you would need 1444 MB of video RAM. And of course you are going to need more than that so you can have a little room to spare. Anyone else ever run into this? What card do they expect to be able to run this on max? "

Kingy1968 · 19 Oct 2011 at 22:41

Plenty of recent games exceed 1280MB VRAM at 1200p nowadays. Often 1.5GB isn't enough. I love the power of the 570, but IMO it needs more VRAM: 1.5 or 2GB.

Get a 2gb 6950, whichever is cheapest

Lol... Im still none the wiser now..

Some say yes the 570 with extra vram others 6950 etc.......

logi-cat · 20 Oct 2011 at 00:00

Def the 1st one

littledave · 20 Oct 2011 at 02:08

Im pretty much in the same position, and im swaying towards the buy button on the 570HD

2nd thoughts i think this is gonna be for me.

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 6970 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE DIRT3 & Deus Ex PC Game [11187-00-40R]

Kingy1968 · 20 Oct 2011 at 08:10

littledave said:
Im pretty much in the same position, and im swaying towards the buy button on the 570HD

2nd thoughts i think this is gonna be for me.

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 6970 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE DIRT3 & Deus Ex PC Game [11187-00-40R]

Ive read that you can overclock the 6950 to nearly the same speeds as a 6970 so would it be better to do that and save yourself £60?? :confused:

Just a thought as that was one of the things i was contemplating doing...

Who'd have thought it was this hard to select and buy a GPU .... :rolleyes:

~>Dg<~ · 20 Oct 2011 at 08:26

i went with the toxic as most unlock to 6970s and i got mine for 225 and as fast as a 570gtx little quicker which unlock and overclock