New gfx card
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3 Oct 2014, 15:17
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Hello Crossfire,
I need your advice regarding a new gfx card, because I'm not really up to date what's happening on the tech market. My current card is an AMD Radeon HD 6870 with 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory, so yes, pretty "dated". Got no problems playing BF 4, Assassins Creed 4 or other newer games with it, only that the frame rate is pretty low, even if I have everything on low details (BF 4 is not as bad with frame drops as AC4).
So could you give me an advice on which new gfx card to get and where to get it? Price limit should be around 350 - 400€.
Doesn't matter if it's a card by AMD, nVidia or someone else, even if I prefer AMD cards, to be honest (personal experience with nVidia cards wasn't that great :D).
Thanks in advance!
I need your advice regarding a new gfx card, because I'm not really up to date what's happening on the tech market. My current card is an AMD Radeon HD 6870 with 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory, so yes, pretty "dated". Got no problems playing BF 4, Assassins Creed 4 or other newer games with it, only that the frame rate is pretty low, even if I have everything on low details (BF 4 is not as bad with frame drops as AC4).
So could you give me an advice on which new gfx card to get and where to get it? Price limit should be around 350 - 400€.
Doesn't matter if it's a card by AMD, nVidia or someone else, even if I prefer AMD cards, to be honest (personal experience with nVidia cards wasn't that great :D).
Thanks in advance!
To be honest, it still manages to do a good job. But it's no good with new top games and full details.
http://geizhals.de/evga-geforce-gtx-970-superclocked-acx-04g-p4-0974-a1168347.html
http://geizhals.de/asus-strix-gtx970-dc2oc-4gd5-90yv07f0-m0na00-a1167954.html
I have an ATI myself (7970 GHz Edition with a custom cooler) and I am pretty happy with that. Moreover I want to support ATI, because they are a great company and competition is always good, but my next card will probably be an NVIDIA again due to the supersampling option, which is awesome in older games. On ATI GPUs you can only use supersampling with GeDoSaTo on DirectX9, which is a huge drawback :(
i consider buying one (150e)
i can afford more but probably gonna update whole cumputer in few months ( wanna get a new car first )
Buy 280X for like 150 you can buy a used one.
For around 150 euro you can get a 280X ( mostly old mining cards) for 200euro you can buy 290 used.
If you really want to buy a new one, the GTX970 is the best choice. And from the GTX970 cards, the Asus STIX is a good choice. I would not buy GTX970 from MSI, since that one has coil whining.