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    Upgrading 660 to 660 ti

    Hi there guys, I recently bought a MSI GTX 660 for £180 and I was considering selling it (already posted it on eBay just in case ) and purchasing the MSI 660ti PE from scan for only £227, I was just wondering if this £50 upgrade is worth it in a price to performance ratio.

    Thanks in advance.

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    Re: Upgrading 660 to 660 ti

    You are forgetting the Ebay and Paypal fees and postage costs. The upgrade is going to cost you more than £50.

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    Re: Upgrading 660 to 660 ti

    No, not at all.

    I mean it depends which games you play, but apart from a few exceptions it isn't very far ahead of the 660.

    Are you unhappy with the performance of the 660? If so in which games and have you tried overclocking it?

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    Re: Upgrading 660 to 660 ti

    Quote Originally Posted by CAT-THE-FIFTH View Post
    You are forgetting the Ebay and Paypal fees and postage costs. The upgrade is going to cost you more than £50.
    Well obviously I have factored in the postage costs already.

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    Re: Upgrading 660 to 660 ti

    Quote Originally Posted by Willzzz View Post
    No, not at all.

    I mean it depends which games you play, but apart from a few exceptions it isn't very far ahead of the 660.

    Are you unhappy with the performance of the 660? If so in which games and have you tried overclocking it?
    I have tried overclocking it and I am not really very experienced with it to be honest, I have currently got OC'd to + 82 on the core and + 400 on the memory, I really have no idea if that is good or not. As for the games i play I am going to playing Hitman Absolution and AC3 for quite a while I would imagine.

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    Re: Upgrading 660 to 660 ti

    Quote Originally Posted by Blackspur View Post
    Well obviously I have factored in the postage costs already.
    You said you bought the graphics card for £180 and want to get another one which is £227. That is a £47 difference.

    Add a registered and insured postage service(which you should use on Ebay) and all the other fees,you are probably looking at around £25 to £35 ,on a £180 sale. OTH,you might not get not get £180 but a bit less as the card is used.

    So that means probably at least £70 to £80 for the upgrade.

    Looking at the performance difference between the two cards,it is not worth it IMHO.

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    Re: Upgrading 660 to 660 ti

    Yeah that OC seems pretty standard, does that not give you good framerates?

    You are running at 1080p I assume?

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    Re: Upgrading 660 to 660 ti

    Yeah given that Scan is selling them for £166 new, I don't see how you could get any more than that selling second hand.

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    Re: Upgrading 660 to 660 ti

    Yes I am running 1080p. The only game that I have really played to any extent since I got the card a couple of weeks ago is Borderland 2 an WoW, BL2 seems to tank to 30 FPS during action even with the Physx turned down, and wow I don't even consider as a reliable benchmark as it is very poorly optimized most of the time.

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    Re: Upgrading 660 to 660 ti

    If you really want to upgrade, it would be better to go up to a 7950 imo:
    http://www.dabs.com/products/gigabyt...m_content=Q200

    Or go all out crazy and buy a 2nd 660 for SLI!

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    Re: Upgrading 660 to 660 ti

    Quote Originally Posted by Willzzz View Post
    If you really want to upgrade, it would be better to go up to a 7950 imo:
    http://www.dabs.com/products/gigabyt...m_content=Q200

    Or go all out crazy and buy a 2nd 660 for SLI!
    'Unfortunately' this PC is my second (I have two, one at University and one at home) and it is a mini-itx build so i only have the option for a single GPU.

    I don't really want to upgrade, I was just wondering if I was able to get a decent price to performance out of a more expensive card and the consensous seems to be no, so i think I will stick with my 660 for the time being

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    Re: Upgrading 660 to 660 ti

    I've been running Borderlands 2 on 1080p with pretty high settings (not sure what but high) and had no problems with playability. Maybe there is something else wrong, rather than your graphics card not performing.

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    Re: Upgrading 660 to 660 ti

    A 660Ti is a marginal upgrade from a 660, with more cores.. really depends what you are playing but upgrading from a 660 to a 660Ti is probably only like a 5% difference.. not really worth it.
    I have a 560Ti 2GB and can max out most games at high settings with solid FPS. An upgrade for you would be a 680. I would just wait until the 700 series comes out.

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