Buying new Graphics Card?

[BlearyNeptune5]

Any suggestions on a new Graphics Card i have about £250 to spend!

[Meaty]

You should tell what the rest of your rig is first.
Like PSU, CPU, motherboard and current GPU.

[BlearyNeptune5]

Messaggio originale di Meaty:

You should tell what the rest of your rig is first.
Like PSU, CPU, motherboard and current GPU.

Operating System
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit SP1
CPU
AMD Phenom II X4 965
Deneb 45nm Technology
RAM
4.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 2827MHz (9-12-12-30)
Motherboard
ASRock M3A770DE (CPUSocket)
Graphics
32W_LCD_TV (1024x768@60Hz)
1023MB GeForce GTX 550 Ti (Gigabyte)
Hard Drives
233GB Western Digital WDC WD2500JD-55HBB0 ATA Device (SATA)
466GB Seagate ST3500312CS ATA Device (SATA)
Optical Drives
NEC DVD_RW ND-3550A ATA Device
HP DVD Writer 200j ATA Device
Audio
NVIDIA High Definition Audio

[_I_]

550ti isnt a bad card, would cost over £200 to get something better

id recomend a ssd for windows, will speed up everything that uses the boot drive
your seagate is a 5900rpm drive, save it for a nas or external drive
pick up another 1tb 7200rpm drive for your games

[BlearyNeptune5]

Messaggio originale di _I_:

550ti isnt a bad card, would cost over £200 to get something better

id recomend a ssd for windows, will speed up everything that uses the boot drive
your seagate is a 5900rpm drive, save it for a nas or external drive
pick up another 1tb 7200rpm drive for your games

what about SLI? see am waiting for far cry 3 on steam? and cheers for the input.

[_I_]

your board supports 16/4 sli, would work good

for sli, 2x 550ti = about 240w
roughly 250-300w for the rest of the system
a quality 550-600+w psu will work

what power supply do you have?
brand/model?

[BlearyNeptune5]

Messaggio originale di _I_:

your board supports 16/4 sli, would work good

for sli, 2x 550ti = about 240w
roughly 250-300w for the rest of the system
a quality 550-600+w psu will work

what power supply do you have?
brand/model?

its a silver stone 1000 watt?

[Heisenburger™]

GTX 670 for ~350$ or GTX 660 Ti would be great.

[Wrench]

HD 7750 is a great card for me its a $115 on newegg, not that knowledgeable on pc though. I was able to play Far Cry 3 on ultra (no AA), it did freeze once though.

[¤☣wing☢zeяo☣¤™]

Messaggio originale di shhcrazy:

Any suggestions on a new Graphics Card i have about £250 to spend!

This is probably the best you will get for a 250 quid budget
XFX HD7950 DD 3GB[www.scan.co.uk] - £220

or if you prefer Nvidia

EVGA GTX 660Ti 2GB[www.scan.co.uk] £220

From the benchmarks i have seen the 7950 is the better card overall.

If you want somthing good for less you can grab a Radeon HD 7850 2GB[www.scan.co.uk] or a GTX 570 1280MB[www.scan.co.uk] for around £140, the 570 is slightly the better card.

[Satoru]

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107.html

Pick budget. buy card

[76561198075468462]

think you should look at the GTX 660 TI on nivida website good graphics card for an affordable price

[Enkidu]

how do the games look on that TV, I would get a new monitor instead of a GPU, you are only running 1024x768, most of these suggestions would be overkill
http://www.dabs.com/category/computing,desktops-and-monitors,monitors/11109-49820000/2#Paging

[BlearyNeptune5]

i actually run it on 720p hd tv in my room its fine, im going to buy another gtx550 ti to sli but
thanks for the help

Messaggio originale di Enkidu:

how do the games look on that TV, I would get a new monitor instead of a GPU, you are only running 1024x768, most of these suggestions would be overkill
http://www.dabs.com/category/computing,desktops-and-monitors,monitors/11109-49820000/2#Paging

[Infernal Machine]

660ti is the best value currently.

[cyan]

If I myself, had £250 to spend on a GPU would stay with Radeon. Thay're better for budgets, but with a small downside on power.