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| Thread ID: 134339 | 2013-06-21 11:01:00 | What should I upgrade my graphics card to? | Ninjabear (2948) | Press F1 |
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| 1346579 | 2013-06-27 19:23:00 | Toms Hardware has GPU performance reviews, if you want to see what's good, bad or average.. THis one is quite good for a comparison of the rankings: GTX 690 Radeon HD 7990 GTX 590 HD 6990, 7970 GHz Ed. GTX 680 HD 7970 GTX 670 HD 5970, 7870 LE , 7950 GTX 580, 660, 660 Ti HD 7870 GTX 295, 480, 570, 650 Ti Boost HD 4870 X2, 6970, 7850 GTX 470, 560 Ti, 560 Ti 448 Core HD 4850 X2, 5870, 6950 GTX 560, 650 Ti HD 5850, 6870, 7790 9800 GX2, 285, 460 256-bit, 465 HD 6850, 7770 GTX 260, 275, 280, 460 192-bit, 460 SE, 550 Ti, 560 SE, 650 HD 4870, 5770, 4890, 5830, 6770, 6790, 7750 8800 Ultra, 9800 GTX, 9800 GTX+, GTS 250, GTS 450 HD 3870 X2, 4850, 5750, 6750 8800 GTX, 8800 GTS 512 MB, GT 545 (GDDR5) HD 4770 8800 GT 512 MB, 9800 GT, GT 545 (DDR3), GT 640 (DDR3) HD 4830, HD 5670, HD 6670 (GDDR5) As you see, sometimes last years card is fine.....if you are going to upgrade, well, sometimes, just cause it's the newest, doesn't mean better.... |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1346580 | 2013-07-01 10:33:00 | for most people twice as good for less than $100 is good enough. even with the cost of selling existing hardware included. | Mirddes (10) | ||
| 1346581 | 2013-07-01 23:24:00 | I think the 760 would be a nice upgrade, especially if you go 4Gb model, what resolution are you using?.....Had to LOL with Dugimo going from NV to AMD..... | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1346582 | 2013-07-01 23:32:00 | I think the 760 would be a nice upgrade, especially if you go 4Gb model, what resolution are you using?.....Had to LOL with Dugimo going from NV to AMD..... The 760 would be a terrible upgrade, less power, heat and noise maybe, but only ~5% better performance. It's pretty much a rebadged 670. And why lol at going to AMD? The 7970 is a fantastic card. Better than the GTX 760 even. Fanboi much? |
pablo d (15490) | ||
| 1346583 | 2013-07-02 04:08:00 | I love my 7970 :D Saw the reviews for 7990 in the latest PCW... Drooled all over those pages! |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1346584 | 2013-07-02 04:12:00 | Well I let the price and benchmarks of the 7970 convince me mainly because I missed a special on the 670 I planned to buy but it's not proving the best of decisions. On some games the 7970 is fantastic, but I game at 1080P and the 580 was just as good as far as I could tell. The 7970 however has noticeably lower performance in world of warcraft which is still the game I play the most. Also Crysis 3 kept crashing out of the opening scenes until I set the graphics card to stock clocks (had tried a small OC) and reduced some quality settings - it now plays and looks fantastic but the 580 handled higher settings smoothly and without crashing . For Crysis 3 it's mainly an academic thing as I have no complaints about how the game is running now, but it's another irritation knowing it's set lower than my "old" card. The 7970 is doing the job, everything is playable and it fit's into the itx case that the 580 wouldn't, but I really regret not getting the 670 when it was on special (and has been again since) as it worked out $50 cheaper and would almost certainly not have had these issues. I try not to become a "fanboy" and over the years have built many machines based on both ATI/AMD & Nvidia hardware with AMD & intel CPUs, picking whichever is currently offering the best performance at my price point (which has climbed a bit towards the high end over recent years I used to use midrange hardware once). In my experince though AMD graphics cards need a few months from release for driver issues to be sorted out and more games favour Nvidia than AMD in general. So currenlt I recommend Nvidia graphics and intel CPU's because from my personal experience in gaming they work better most of the time. I dunno why the issues with the 7970 though, it's not that new of a model. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1346585 | 2013-07-02 04:27:00 | The 760 would be a terrible upgrade, less power, heat and noise maybe, but only ~5% better performance. It's pretty much a rebadged 670. And why lol at going to AMD? The 7970 is a fantastic card. Better than the GTX 760 even. Fanboi much? Yes, I am a fanboy Pablo, since my 1st GPU back in 1992 when I purchased my diamond virge S3 2MB card.....Yes the 760 is only 5-10% faster, But it has 2GB of RAM which is all the OP needs at 1080p...The 760 is nothing like a rebadged 670, you are getting confused with AMD 7xxx rebadged for OEMs as 8xxx...The 7970 is a fantastic card if you dont have the reference cooler and dont mind wasting half your gaming time installing the latests drivers to work with your game. I have used 2 ATI\AMD cards in my life and the only time I touch them now is with other persons PCs....AMD may make great hardware, however their software team is very much second fiddle to NV. ****, 18mths and they STILL havnt fixed their stuttering CF issues!..Hence my LOL at Dugimo! |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1346586 | 2013-07-02 07:47:00 | Same architecture, slightly less cores, slightly higher clock speed. I think "pretty much a rebadge" covers it accurately. | pablo d (15490) | ||
| 1346587 | 2013-07-02 10:29:00 | About upgrading PC If I were to move my current PC to a water cooling one. Would it be expensive? It is expensive if you do it custom but you can buy a cpu watercooler for about $200. If that is what you mean by your question |
osbornezo (16903) | ||
| 1346588 | 2013-07-02 21:18:00 | Same architecture, slightly less cores, slightly higher clock speed. I think "pretty much a rebadge" covers it accurately. Eh, course its the same architecture, its respined silcon!....rebadges dont upgrade components, this also has boost 2.0, same as Titan, and 780! |
SolMiester (139) | ||
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