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Which One

rishy

rishy

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Looking at the following graphics card but cant make my mind up

Current system is i7 3770k with 16gb

Screen res is 1650x1050 but will be getting a bigger monitor in the next year and will go 1080

don't know whether to get a cheaper card now then later go sli or xfire or spend a bit more now

budget is about the 150 mark


YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 660 OC Twin Frozr 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE Borderlands 2 & Assassin's Creed III PC Games £179.99
1 x Sapphire HD 7850 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card w/ FARCRY3, Nexuiz & Sleeping Dogs PC Games £149.99
1 x KFA2 GeForce GTX 650Ti EX OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £119.99
1 x Gigabyte HD 7770 OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card w/ FARCRY3 & 20% MOH WarFighter PC Games £99.95
1 x MSI HD 7750 2048MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card £65.99


 
I'd personally get the 660. Recommending a 1GB card for a future 1080 screen is somewhat pointless. Unless you up your budget to £167 and get the Asus DC2.

Just my opinion, the 1GB card will be fine - but has nowhere to go.
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 660 OC Twin Frozr 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE Borderlands 2 & Assassin's Creed III PC Games £179.99
1 x MSI HD 7850 Twin Frozr III OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Cards w/ FARCRY3, Nexuiz & Sleeping Dogs PC Games £169.99
Total : £361.38 (includes shipping : £9.50).



Out of those 2, I would be tempted by the 660 if you wasn't keen on overclocking and wanted good performance "out of the box". Also all Nvidia cards use PhysX and if you like the pretties in the PhysX games, it is a wise purchase.

As for the 7850, at stock it loses out to the 660 but as soon as you overclock it, this is where it will surpass the 660 quite comfortably. Obviously each chip is dependant but these are great value cards. They were slightly cheaper a week ago but prices seem to be creeping up.
 
If you are considering paying £170 for the 660 why not spend that on a 2gb 7850?

If you are willing to over clock, get the 7850. If not get a good 660 :p
 
If it is to be the 7850 an OC edition should be a binned card (selected for stability) and so it should OC more. At stock voltage I have mine running at 1200 core and 1450 memory.
 
I don't think they are binned, its just luck of the draw how they overclock, although they tend to land in the same range.

The 7850's tend to gain a lot more performance in terms of percentage increase from over clocking, compared to the 660.
 
psychodil said:
I don't think they are binned, its just luck of the draw how they overclock, although they tend to land in the same range.

The 7850's tend to gain a lot more performance in terms of percentage increase from over clocking, compared to the 660.
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They must pass a criteria for the overclock so if they are not binned from the others they are made especially for the OC.
 
Well 2 660 in sli beat quite comfortably one 680 (I know cos I just bought 2) and did a lot of research before I did. They are also just cheaper than a 680. However you will always get the odd game unsupported with sli in which case the 680 is gonna be superior to the 660's.
 
dazzerd said:
Well 2 660 in sli beat quite comfortably one 680 (I know cos I just bought 2) and did a lot of research before I did. They are also just cheaper than a 680. However you will always get the odd game unsupported with sli in which case the 680 is gonna be superior to the 660's.
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What things have you found that don't work in sli mode
 
What's the point having SLI 192 bit bus cards.... All that power then not the bandwidth to support high AA / high resolution at anything close to decent frames.
 
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