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Title: Which graphics card to get?
Post by: Stabby_Dave on May 23, 2012, 08:07:50 pm
Im shortly to be buying a new PC and, being as how geeky and savvy most of you guys are  :mrgreen: I would like some advice on which GPU to go for in terms of power, survivability and value for money. Im on a budget though so dont really want to go above a GTX 570 or Radeon 7850 (since the price of cards beyond these two seem increase at a steep rate). Im currently favouring the GTX560ti but im not so sure since it's already reasonably old.

As a point of reference here are the other components im going for:

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Cant wait to be able to play new games on a PC rather than a shitty xbox :D
Title: Re: Which graphics card to get?
Post by: LordBerenger on May 23, 2012, 08:16:33 pm
Get two 580's.
Title: Re: Which graphics card to get?
Post by: Stabby_Dave on May 23, 2012, 08:34:46 pm
Quote from: CountBerenger on May 23, 2012, 08:16:33 pm
Get two 580's.

I would but the bankers stole all my money.
Title: Re: Which graphics card to get?
Post by: B3RS3RK on May 23, 2012, 08:36:38 pm
I herd voodoo 5 is nice.
Title: Re: Which graphics card to get?
Post by: Ninja_Khorin on May 23, 2012, 09:04:18 pm
If you would have asked this last year when I was buying a comp I could give you a proper answer.

I bought 2x570s 10 months ago and they have worked well. That's all I can say.
Title: Re: Which graphics card to get?
Post by: Patoson on May 24, 2012, 06:49:38 am
I used to have a 480. It was great, but got too hot and made a lot of noise. I recently purchased a 570 and, not only it makes less noise, but it's better. You'll run Warband between 100 and 120 fps all the time. All the other games run perfectly well too.
Title: Re: Which graphics card to get?
Post by: Xant on May 24, 2012, 07:07:43 am
Get two GTX 690's. Only 2000 euros.
Title: Re: Which graphics card to get?
Post by: [ptx] on May 24, 2012, 07:43:48 am
I just don't see the point in getting two cards, a single card should be able to run everything at max with good performance anyway? Also, Crossfire/SLI is way beyond his budget anyway.
Title: Re: Which graphics card to get?
Post by: Ninja_Khorin on May 24, 2012, 08:10:34 am
It's a little frivolous spending, yes. But I hate to say I do enjoy my 15 000 troops vs. 15 000 troops in Shogun 2. It's something I wouldn't be able to do with only one card.
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Mind you, I never did recommend he gets two.
Title: Re: Which graphics card to get?
Post by: LordBerenger on May 24, 2012, 08:24:40 am
Quote from: Ninja_Khorin on May 24, 2012, 08:10:34 am
It's a little frivolous spending, yes. But I hate to say I do enjoy my 15 000 troops vs. 15 000 troops in Shogun 2. It's something I wouldn't be able to do with only one card.
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Mind you, I never did recommend he gets two.

CLUSTERFUCK!
Title: Re: Which graphics card to get?
Post by: Xant on May 24, 2012, 08:46:10 am
Quote from: Ninja_Khorin on May 24, 2012, 08:10:34 am
It's a little frivolous spending, yes. But I hate to say I do enjoy my 15 000 troops vs. 15 000 troops in Shogun 2. It's something I wouldn't be able to do with only one card.
You would, if it was a good one card!
Title: Re: Which graphics card to get?
Post by: Kafein on May 24, 2012, 08:47:16 am
I play all the recent games at maximum settings with my good old Radeon HD4870. It is balanced with the 2500k@4.2GHz tbh

And if you don't believe me, I can assure you I'm totally serious. Getting recent and highest tier GPU never was a good idea and still isn't now. Most of the time that is where you will find the worst value for money. Getting recent low tier is worse mind you, because you won't be able to do anything with it. Just buy the most popular high tier chipset of the preceding generation and you are guaranteed to get almost the same performances at a fraction of the price.

Crossfire/SLI settings are utterly useless, except if you really need that half dozen of HD screens. But if you have the screens you probably won't have any trouble buying the cards.



As a rule of thumb, when you have performance problems in games you should always be sure it's not a CPU bottleneck first before buying anything. Because in more than 80% of the time, it is a CPU problem (and I know what I'm talking about).
Title: Re: Which graphics card to get?
Post by: Ninja_Khorin on May 24, 2012, 09:46:40 am
Quote from: Xant on May 24, 2012, 08:46:10 am
You would, if it was a good one card!
Was cheaper to get two 570s than one 590 at the time and 2x570s offer more performance.
Title: Re: Which graphics card to get?
Post by: Stabby_Dave on May 24, 2012, 10:53:08 am
Those shogun 2 battles look awesome.
Title: Re: Which graphics card to get?
Post by: Ninja_Khorin on May 24, 2012, 10:59:39 am
Quote from: CountBerenger on May 24, 2012, 08:24:40 am
CLUSTERFUCK!
Yes, AI cav vs. AI cav :P

Quote from: Stabby_Dave on May 24, 2012, 10:53:08 am
Those shogun 2 battles look awesome.
They are. Sorry, didn't mean to derail your thread.

There are dozens of GPU benchmark sites that you can browse that will give you a rough estimate of how well the card will perform in comparison to others. I'd recommend checking a lot of different sites in order to get an accurate idea, since there are rumours that some sites are more biased toward nvidia and others toward AMD.

Here's an example: http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html
Title: Re: Which graphics card to get?
Post by: Bjord on May 24, 2012, 11:04:19 am
Where's the anti-alising?

Looks kick-ass though.
Title: Re: Which graphics card to get?
Post by: Ninja_Khorin on May 24, 2012, 11:13:05 am
Oh, here's a site that I remember checking out:
http://www.techspot.com/reviews-videocards.shtml#gaming

You can check the gaming benchmarks if you want to know how the cards perform in specific games.

Quote from: Bjord on May 24, 2012, 11:04:19 am
Where's the anti-alising?

Looks kick-ass though.
Can't put more AA for some reason. I did use to remember the reason, but I've forgotten :/

EDIT: Oh odd. The shader model had dropped to 3, when I specifically now remember putting it to 5. Anyway, I have some AA now.
Title: Re: Which graphics card to get?
Post by: SoA_Sir_ODHarry on May 24, 2012, 12:22:22 pm
i bought a Radeon 6850 some weeks ago
its a solid card for the its Price
next year i will buy a 6950 when the Price go down...

also 6870 is good for the price If u can.... get the cards in OC version
Title: Re: Which graphics card to get?
Post by: Stabby_Dave on May 24, 2012, 12:46:14 pm
Cheers for all the help.