If I was to upgrade from my GTX 560 Ti....

[Paul Iddon]

If I was to upgrade from my GTX 560 Ti....

What new graphics card would you suggest to give me a significant performance improvement without breaking the bank? Bear in mind that any new card would have to be the same physical size to fit in my mini-tower base unit.

I don't want to spend a fortune - I'm not one of those people that needs to brag about their cutting edge bits and pieces, but I want to know if there is anything worth moving up to for between £100 and £150 that will clearly allow me to notice smoother gameplay and faster response times. (I also use Photoshop a lot, so something to help there too).

The games I play the most are Titanfall & Battlefield 4, plus I have the Call of Duty games too.

My PC has 8Gb DDR3 Ram.

(Oh and while we are here, is there anything that streams wireless internet to a Smart TV (Panasonic) - the TV's built in web interface does not support flash or Java so streaming the match off Bet365 won't play on the telly!)



Ta muchly.

[kalniel]

I don't want to spend a fortune - I'm not one of those people that needs to brag about their cutting edge bits and pieces, but I want to know if there is anything worth moving up to for between £100 and £150 that will clearly allow me to notice smoother gameplay and faster response times. (I also use Photoshop a lot, so something to help there too).

The games I play the most are Titanfall & Battlefield 4, plus I have the Call of Duty games too.

I dread to say it, but you might be CPU limited in some of those scenarios - a new card won't improve photoshop over your current one, but a faster CPU might. The 560ti is a very good match for your current CPU. Moving up to a R9 270 would give you a bit of a boost in games where there's a lot of graphical load and little CPU, but won't help slowdowns/slow response times caused by waiting on the CPU.

(Oh and while we are here, is there anything that streams wireless internet to a Smart TV (Panasonic) - the TV's built in web interface does not support flash or Java so streaming the match off Bet365 won't play on the telly!)

Chromecast?