Wot Graphics card?

[MsDG]

About 9 months ago we brought a HD7950 (for £250) which generally has been quite good... until it went tits up the other day. When I sent the card back they just refunded us £220 (which I suppose £30 isn't bad for 9 months of card use).

So anyway, we now have £220 to pick another card but we are surprised to see almost a year on and prices and choice are exactly the same!

So what card would you recommend atm? (we don't mind chipping in more money into the pot... but not silly amounts).

[Fear345]

Well fuck me sideways and he's us thinking you knew everything about everything.

[swiggy]

Do you specifically only want an ATI graphics card or are you willing to go nvidia?

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[MsDG]

Do you specifically only want an ATI graphics card or are you willing to go nvidia?

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will consider anything

[WRATH OF BOD]

you may find cheaper on misco or aria
not a bad card gtx-660 2gb nvidia. from 170 upto 239
http://www.ebuyer.com/414761-evga-gtx-660-ti-ftw-2gb-gddr5-dual-dvi-hdmi-displayport-pci-e-02g-p4-3667-kr
or gtx 670 @ 265
http://www.ebuyer.com/368523-pny-gef...-gf670gtx2gepb

[swiggy]

If you go for the 660ti try to get the phantom edition or FTW+ they offer a bit more power and efficiency

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[WRATH OF BOD]

just found PowerColor PCS+ Myst. Edition Radeon HD 7870 (Tahiti LE) OC 2GB GDDR5 Graphics Card [AX7870 2GBD5-2DHPPV3E] + 4 FREE GAMES! £167

https://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials...roductId=54322

[MsDG]

Fuck... forgot to say, we run a triple screen (1080p) setup if that makes a difference.

[consoles]

Just dont do what I did, bought a GTX650Ti for £130 without realising my mobo only supports pci x2 not x3, now got a 650ti sat waiting for me to upgrade my whole system, only bought it to play Dayz

[swiggy]

All of the GTX series support Multi screens not sure about the ATI ones
The 660ti by itself supports up to 4 monitors
http://www.nvidia.com/content/PDF/GeForce-GTX-660Ti.pdf

[lou3b]

The newer ATI cards are pretty good and can support multiple monitors with eyefinity. I myself would get something like the 660ti or the 670 as they are great powerhouses. Or you just could just get another 7950 if it served you well.

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[Fallstaff]

Any reason not to go with another 7950? Mine still offers great performance, even on the latest games.

[cyprus]

Just dont do what I did, bought a GTX650Ti for £130 without realising my mobo only supports pci x2 not x3, now got a 650ti sat waiting for me to upgrade my whole system, only bought it to play Dayz

Dude, I have just bought a Gigabyte 650Ti 2GB and works fine on my PCI-E v2 Mobo. It should work on all v2 motherboards, it just drops the data transfer speed to v2. Maybe you have a dud graphics card....


Will pci express 3.0 x16 card work in pci 2.0 x16 slot?

Yes they work, and for now there is no performance increase in 3.0 so there will be no performance hit, but some say that in future some motherboard updates "may" increase the 3.0 slot speed for graphics card, but for now there will be no performance hit since there is no performance gain for 3.0...

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/...card-work-slot

[consoles]

I did try but dont get a signal to the monitor, I'll check what ver my mobo is, might get away with a firmware upgrade its still sat under my desk gathering dust lol.

deffo v2 board but no joy

[consoles]

all resolved now, built a new 8 core machine lol

[thehulk]

Radeon hd r9 280x
supports 1080p
Sapphire Dual-X AMD Radeon R9 280X OC 3GB GDDR5

u can pick them up for about £220 in the right place
plus overclocking potential

[Over Carl]

Thanks for not posting spam or irrelevant junk, but I think it's safe to say MsDG will have purchased a card long enough ago to make this post useless, and dragging up old threads without reason is bad form on most forums.