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Which graphics card to upgrade to?

StevieP

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A mate of mine has an i5 3750K, 16GB RAM and a GTX960 Ti and from the looks of things his CPU is not particularly slow in comparison to some fairly recent chips? (I was amazed to see one of the comparison sites listing it as having the same "effective speed" as my 2018 Ryzen 5 2600 - which is incredible when you consider the 3750 came out in 2012!)

Anyway, what sort of upgrade would give him the best performance bump GPU-wise for between £200 and £300?
 
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A mate of mine has an i5 3750K, 16GB RAM and a GTX960 Ti and from the looks of things his CPU is not particularly slow in comparison to some fairly recent chips? (I was amazed to see one of the comparison sites listing it as having the same "effective speed" as my 2018 Ryzen 5 2600 - which is incredible when you consider the 3750 came out in 2012!)

Anyway, what sort of upgrade would give him the best performance bump GPU-wise for between £200 and £300?
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5700 or the xt of you can find it cheap
Vega 64, especially if second hand is an option.
1660,or the super variant of you can find one cheap.
Depends on new or second hand and now is not the greatest time for gpu buying
 
For a 3570K I wouldn't bother spending that much. Some of the comparison sites are pretty skewed in favour of Intel and don't reflect real world performance in the least.

A second hand RX580 8GB would be a good option, I did a similar upgrade to a 3570K setup last year and it was a huge improvement for 1080P. If he doesn't want to go the second hand route, you can get one new for around £160 on the OCUK website I believe.

It does depend on his PSU to an extent though, do you know the make and model of the one he's using?
 
I killed my vega 56, just bought a msi 5600 xt gaming x. Better performance than my vega even when it was tuned and hitting over 1600mhz core with vega 64 bios.

Current offer with msi from certain resellers is £32 steam voucher back and you get some games from AMD. I play at 1440p and more than happy. You need a big case though as the cooler is massive. Although it runs very quietly.
 
well for me will prob waite for RTX 590TI IN 10 YEARS TIME LOL WILL KEEP MY RTX 280TI CLOCKED AT 2.2 GHZ AND MY ITEL 9900K CLOCKED AT 5.3 HGZ SO HAVE FUN BE SAVE
 
Used VEGAs are great value especially if you can get a non reference one, that said from my personal experience the ref cooler once undervolted is not bad at all

@SwatKat this is really interesting about 5600xt gains over Vega card too,
How much quicker are we talking and which card did you get?

Cheers

Ben
 
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