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Best Graphics card for around £200
cyberpunk1977
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Hi,
I admit, I'm a little out of the loop now when it comes to graphics cards, Thinking it is time to upgrade from my Nvidia 560TI, as its a few years old now,Although it still performs quite well on the new games so far.
I prefer Nvidia over ATI to be honest but you guys may know something I don't know now.
I'm looking for recommendations on what people think is the best graphics card for around the £200.000 mark.
Was looking at maybe something like this, unless there is a better card?
http://www.ebuyer.com/704631-gigabyte-gtx-960-oc-4gb-gddr5-dual-link-dvi-hdmi-displayport-pci-e-gv-n960wf2oc-4gd
Thanks in advance!
Cyberpunk.
I admit, I'm a little out of the loop now when it comes to graphics cards, Thinking it is time to upgrade from my Nvidia 560TI, as its a few years old now,Although it still performs quite well on the new games so far.
I prefer Nvidia over ATI to be honest but you guys may know something I don't know now.
I'm looking for recommendations on what people think is the best graphics card for around the £200.000 mark.
Was looking at maybe something like this, unless there is a better card?
http://www.ebuyer.com/704631-gigabyte-gtx-960-oc-4gb-gddr5-dual-link-dvi-hdmi-displayport-pci-e-gv-n960wf2oc-4gd
Thanks in advance!
Cyberpunk.
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If you can come up slightly, you can pick up a GTX 970, but the best value card in your price range is the GTX 960 which is a very capable card. It's more then enough for STO and can handle most modern games. It's a huge upgrade from your current card.
I just did a system for my niece that runs a GTX 960, I was quite impressed with it. It's a fantastic value for the price.
I'll have a look at toms hardware though to make sure.
Nice one!
Yes, the one you're looking at is a great card. I used an EVGA model, but basically the same thing. Played GTA 5 on High/Ultra settings without any problem at all (1080p.) Very nice card, should serve you quite well. :cool:
For example 960 vs 280, granted on paper the specs make the 960 look like the better card, but in practice (in my experience) it's not so cut and dry. I have both cards and have benchmarked both on the same PC ( I bought the 280 ages ago and then got the 960 as an "upgrade" and wish I hadnt), the R9 290 beat the 960 almost all benchmarks I did except the nvidia specific ones (physx etc), so I'm still using the 280 and the newer 960 is relegated to my backup PC.
However, I would still recommend the 960 for players of sto somply because they're close enough and sto plays better on nvidia than it does on AMD.
If you had a look into concrete card benchmarks you would know they perform different between games/benchmark tools. Sometimes the NVidia card is 10% ahead, sometime the AMD one is. The total score will always be a medium of severel benches and games tests.
Thats right. Sto needs more CPU than GPU under normal settings.
Note that he was just looking for general "what's a good card at this price" advice, not "what card to run STO".
Also, I'd have been really impressed if a game had graphics like this 20 years ago. :rolleyes:
(that would be, typically, 640x480 & 256 color)
The graphics in sto maybe not right up there with the top top end games but they are mid range so almost anyone can play the game.
but anyway don't forget what ever gpu you get make sure your psu is up to the task.
Oh, I know - it's in the interest of MMOs (especially f2p) to have system reqs that go pretty low. I just can't help but roll my eyes at the "Any graphics that aren't the Absolute Best, are therefore Hideous! Even if they were Awesome last year!" crowd, though. And their "looks like an Etch-a-sketch" hyperbole. :P
Yeah, definitely good advice.... just find a reasonable source for the power requirements, some pages will really over-inflate what you need.
I prefer nvidia, and people here claim that the STO developers do too. If that's what they test with it might be a safer choice.
I don't know if that's true, but I do know that I don't get crashes like some people do. I have an older PC with intel i5-2500, nvidia 680, Windows 7 64-bit. All is left at stock speed no overclocking.
always look on the website of who makes it like nVida etc as they may inflate it but it will be so safe guard your system and not just try to scare you if that makes sense.
I was using an Nvidia (460) and just recently upgraded to an ATI (260x) just to bring my PC up to a cheap par. There have been some hiccups but after updating to the beta drivers (ATM 15.4) those have almost totally disappeared (still a rare texture bug when running STO on Dx11 but its very, very minor.) That's compared to never quite satisfactory performance on that Nvidia card.
IMO the compatibility issues between Nvidia and ATI are less significant than potential performance differences between a given Nvidia card and a given ATI. In the case of a tie go with an Nvidia, but that's as far as I'd take the difference.
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They would pretty much have to sell their card at a loss to entice me, they have just had too many problems with both performance and stability over the years. Yes, they have gotten better, but I still have far more confidence in NVidia.
I'm a system builder, it's just a hobby now, but I used to do it as a side business. I have built quite a few systems going back many years and in my personal experience for 'Gaming Grade' builds, the best results have been Intel CPU, Intel chipset Motherboard, and an Nvidia Graphics Card.
Again, this is my personal experience, I'm not trying to pass it off as fact.. it's just one persons personal opinion. For me, if the options are close in price and performance, I always go with the Nvidia option and always take Intel over AMD.
It has 3.5 GB of good memory + 0.5 GB of poison RAM that kills performance when it is used. It's worse than if the card only had 3.5 GB.
nvidia drivers try to keep games from using the bad RAM, but they don't actually hide it. They wanted to sell the 970 as a 4 GB card so they didn't disable use of the bad RAM in drivers or the BIOS.
So: 960 and 980 are good, 980ti will probably be even better, and the 970 is only good if you are willing to mess with game settings to make sure a game never touches the bad RAM.
Interesting didn't know that. (*looks it up*) Still given what a 980 costs and that a 970, even with its bugs, still significantly outclasses the 960, still worth a look. But now with more info, so thats certainly good to know.
My original query was based on running other top end games as well as STO by the way
if u are in hurry 960 should be the best for 200 price ranage