Good spot on the 290 for £200; I think it's just gone out-of-stock!
I agree with the 280X or a 960 - they appear to trade blows at 1080p & 1440p.
Good spot on the 290 for £200; I think it's just gone out-of-stock!
I agree with the 280X or a 960 - they appear to trade blows at 1080p & 1440p.
So what I'm getting from this is that the AMD cards at this price point are better value than the Nvidia like the GTX 750Ti or 760 or even a low priced 960?
I'm on an AMD CPU based system so would personally go with one of their offerings and the advice on this thread seems to support going that route.
I would say that AMD or Nvidia GPUs are CPU agnostic so it shouldn't sway you either way.
Using your criteria, you mentioned in an earlier post, for a quiet graphics card, I would recommend any of the MSI Gaming range which covers both AMD and Nvidia GPUs - I find a MSI Gaming R9 285 for £143, MSI Gaming R9 280 for £150, MSI Gaming GTX 960 for £168 & MSI Gaming R9 280X for £186 - I would say the 280X is overpriced at the moment; to close to 290 territory in the low £200s. The 285, 280 & 960 are very well priced for there performance. I wouldn't hesitate to select any of around your £150 budget.
Last edited by Gronich26; 08-03-2015 at 12:09 PM.
Yeah that backs up what others have been saying, so thanks for that. I have been reading and watching a few reviews on various MSI cards and most of them agree they are low noise compared to other makes.
It's always a problem when to upgrade the card and somewhere saw a list of top cards to bottom and it was said "don't bother buying a new card unless it's three or over up the list from yours" ...well as time goes by my EAH6850 is going down the list and often wonder what I'm missing but I suppose it depends what game you play (erm well my Grandson plays em).
2nd computer gigabyte P965ds3p, 7770 E2140@2.9ghz, corsair HX520 6 years stable, replaced now with E8400@3.9ghz and will overclock more when I'm bored.
I'm wondering if the upcoming release of the R9 300 series cards will make a difference to prices of the current cards.
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