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    best option for a gpu under £60

    now then.

    despite the plucky performance of my hd 5670 in the 3dMark '13 chart, i think the time may be nigh to spice things up a bit with a new graphics card. i say new, likely it will be second hand. i've been browsing around on ebay for the last few days, and have been scouring through benchmarks (here). i'm quite taken by the power-to-price of the gtx 480 and the 560ti. a little old, but i don't mind. what do you think i could realistically pick up for sub £60?

    power isn't an issue as i'm getting a new psu next month (xfx 850w), and also size doesn't matter (*sniggers*) as i'll be getting a new case too (fractal r4), which will house anything in this price range.

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    Re: best option for a gpu under £60

    Quote Originally Posted by Mr_Jon View Post
    now then.

    despite the plucky performance of my hd 5670 in the 3dMark '13 chart, i think the time may be nigh to spice things up a bit with a new graphics card. i say new, likely it will be second hand. i've been browsing around on ebay for the last few days, and have been scouring through benchmarks (here). i'm quite taken by the power-to-price of the gtx 480 and the 560ti. a little old, but i don't mind. what do you think i could realistically pick up for sub £60?

    power isn't an issue as i'm getting a new psu next month (xfx 850w), and also size doesn't matter (*sniggers*) as i'll be getting a new case too (fractal r4), which will house anything in this price range.
    The 560 ti will be a bit cooler and quieter then the 480. But the 480 will be faster. If you game at a low resolution and don't need every bit of performance, then I would go for cool and quiet.

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    Re: best option for a gpu under £60

    For £60 your gona be limited to say 5770 or even a GTX250 I would add another £40 and get one of these http://www.ebuyer.com/413447-msi-gtx...d-n650-2gd5-oc
    OR one of these

    http://www.ebuyer.com/366803-powerco...70-1gbd5-pp2dh

    Both are good card for a budget
    Hope this helps

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    Re: best option for a gpu under £60

    Do you realy need that PSU? Why not save a bit there and get a better card?

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    Re: best option for a gpu under £60

    Aye, that PSU is badly over the spec what you need or may need. A 450W XFX Core would do the same for you (would be even better cause you would use higher percentage of the total power which usually results in higher efficiency).

    Also, you monitor is a bit of limitation (native resolution of 1360 x 768). Unless you AA or MSAA the crap out of your future games, you will gain little extra visible performance I would say.

    Around £60 your best choices would be either a nVidia GTX 460 1GB (£70) or a AMD 7750 (£70). The 7750 got Far Cry included which would end in a even lower price for the card. The XFX version is pretty good (recently had the chance to try the 7850 with the same cooling. Slightly OC (+10%) and FurMark running the GPU was never above 60 degrees).

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    Re: best option for a gpu under £60

    thanks chaps. the computer is an evolving-wip over the next 18 months or so...while the psu looks vastly over-powerful for what i've got now, it will be spot on for my power needs when it's finished (i'm be sli'ing or crossfiring). my current psu isn't the greatest (and i suspect isn't long for this world) so that's my priority...but i won't be able to afford to buy another next year, hence why this one looks like overkill. same too with my display...it's tiny at the moment, but there's a strong chance that a much bigger one will be coming my way in the next few months (at no cost to myself).

    seems like i won't get either of the two i mentioned for under 60. that budget isn't set in stone, i can go over (but being a spurs fan, i'd rather not)...but i don't know what the max i should be paying out for one of those cards is. i've been looking at the 460 too, i could live with that quite happily.

    the 7750 doesn't really compare well in the stats to the gtx cards, only around 50% better than what my 5670. plus, the 7000 series and the gtx 600's are pcie 3, and my mobo isn't (mobo and cpu will likely stay the same until late next year, unless i spot a stupid bargain).

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    Re: best option for a gpu under £60

    If you're planning on SLI or Crossfire later, why spend money on an old card now? If you're planning on getting a second 480/560 Ti then I'd think very carefully: they'll be a lot harder to find, pull a lot of power, and provide very little performance advantage compared to a single new-generation card. If you're planning on SLI/crossfire with two new cards, the money spent on an old card for a temporary performance increase - which will give limited real-world improvements due to your low resolution monitor - seems wasted to me. Leave the £60 in the bank and keep adding to it so you can get a worthwhile upgrade (you should plan to upgrade your monitor at the same time as your GPU, frankly, so need to save ~ £200 IMNSHO). If you're not planning on upgrading your motherboard for more than a year, there'll be at least one if not two new generations of graphics cards released by that point. A single new GPU at that point should comfortably outperform two older cards while drawing a lot less power and having a better feature set.

    The 7750 compares very well to the new price-comparable GTX cards: the 640 is a lot slower and the 650 (non-Ti) is about the same performance but a little more expensive and draws more power. This XFX DDR5 version is £10 cheaper than the 650. Obviously it's not as fast as an older second hand card from a higher performance bracket, but it's a lot more efficient and has a much better feature set. The 7750's well worth considering as an intermediate upgrade, although I still think you'd be better off putting up with 5670 for now - particularly on your low res monitor - and saving up for something a lot better.

    The cards being PCIe3 doesn't matter - I've got a 7750 in my AM3 motherboard and it works fine.

    But seriously, put your money back in your pocket and save it up for a *proper* upgrade

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    Re: best option for a gpu under £60

    Remember to avoid the gtx460 768mb, it's not just less ram but also less ROPs and memory bandwidth, meaning it was a chunk slower, like wise goes with the gtx460 SE
    gtx560 (not ti) would be worth looking at, basically it's the same , if your looking at only a single monitor then a single gtx560 is fine no real need for sli.
    For a cheap option a gtx260 or gtx275 are worth looking at, the 275 was slightly slower than the gtx460 1gb and the gtx260 was half way between the gtx460 768mb and 1gb, although 2nd hand ati cards are generally cheaper than nvidia

    pci-e 3.0 is totally unimportant, pci-e bandwidth still outstrips what the cards can actually use, sli/crossfire is where pci-e can start to come in but even then you're generally looking at top end cards and the way pci-e lanes are shared for multiple cards.

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    Re: best option for a gpu under £60

    The GT 640 is junk for a gaming card, the old gts250 is slightly faster (arround £35-40 2nd hand on fleabay buy-it-now)
    the gtx650 isn't much better, it's only a nominal increase over the gtx550 and they where a bit behind the older gtx460 768mb in performance.
    While these new cards have lots of shader units and RAM they lack the ROPs and bandwidth needed to back them up and get decent performance.
    The 40's and 50's cards have there place in non-gaming PPU duties (CUDA) or as a physx card.
    Nvidia's current range is top heavy and a bit bottom heavy with little in the middle, the current ati range is far better in this area, but older 2nd hand cards are still a better option at this price point.

    edit: for new nvidia you're really looking at a gtx660(non-ti) £170ish + £95ish for a cheap 21.5" led monitor, so I'd say your looking at £250-300 for a new nvidia card and monitor

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    Re: best option for a gpu under £60

    I would probably just save up some more money and get a better upgrade.

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    Re: best option for a gpu under £60

    Just three months ago, I replaced an old graphics card in a secondary PC for LAN gaming only with an HD 6670 GDDR5, and that was the best I could possibly find under £60 - the situation hasn't really changed, so if you want a proper upgrade, you're just going to have to move more towards the £100 bracket at least.

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    Re: best option for a gpu under £60

    thanks chaps. i'm wanting a card that will give a marked improvement over my current one (ie double the benchmark stats here). it's looking like i'll have to stretch the budget a l'il bit. i'm leaning towards the 460.

    i'm not buying a display, i should be getting a used one off a friend (just to clear that up).

    by some bizarre coincidence, every used graphics card on ebay "has never been overclocked." what's next, one lady owner?

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    Re: best option for a gpu under £60

    That PSU will probably be overkill even if you intend on going for multiple gpus.

    Unless you're looking at 2 7990s or something then a 650W unit would be a far better choice, still enough oomph to easily cope with a couple of decent cards (to put it into perspective my friend runs 2 580s with a 500W and 4 7970s mining on a 1600W, which only pulls 1000W from the wall)

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    Re: best option for a gpu under £60

    picked up a gtx 460 for £56.

    should be able to get at least £20 for the 5670 (fully boxed and never been overclocked, honest)...although there's one at £30 with 16 hrs left still.

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    Re: best option for a gpu under £60

    GOT THE WEE BROTHER ONE OF THESE EVGA GeForce GT 640 2GB ON XMAS HE US TO USED BEFORE THIS A GTX 560TI AND HE SAY ITS THE SAME IF NOT BETTER AND HE PLAYS A LOT OF GAME ON IT IT ONLY 60 POUNDS AND IT NEW FROM SCAN

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    Re: best option for a gpu under £60

    MOTHER OF GOD!

    seriously though; this afternoon's baragin for me would be 650ti 1gb on scan @£90. sell game voucher for at least £20. <£70 total.

    EDIT: they cat the price back on the low range cards so may only be worth £10-15
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