Looking for £160-£200 graphics card

moozilbee

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Hi, as the title says I am looking to buy a graphics card for £160-£200, give or take £10 or so, I was wondering what would would be the best card to get I am looking for 2 or 3 gb of vram, and a card that is able to play most games such as crysis 2, farcry 3, battlefield 4, modded skyrim etc on highest settings, with 30 ish fps if possible. Currently I have an Windows 7 ultimate 32 bit, 4gb ram, ATI radeon HD 4850 GPU, 3.1ghz amd phenom II x2 550 cpu, 500gb hard drive. Thanks in advance for any help!
 
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Good suggestion! He could use a better processor. The old one would certainly limit performance.

Here let me make it even cheaper:

CPU: http://tinyurl.com/9odkl4a
GPU: http://tinyurl.com/mdmox6d

Total just £218.53 :)

With that overclocked card you will get over 60fps in your games @ ultra. Have fun


Good suggestion! He could use a better processor. The old one would certainly limit performance.

Here let me make it even cheaper:

CPU: http://tinyurl.com/9odkl4a
GPU: http://tinyurl.com/mdmox6d

Total just £218.53 :)

With that overclocked card you will get over 60fps in your games @ ultra. Have fun
 
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The reason I picked that CPU is because I don't know what your power supply is. I figured that it was a decent one because you have a 4850. We might be able to help more if you told us your power supply
 
Okay I opened up my PC and cleaned out some dust while I was at it, I found that my power supply says its total power is 600W and it is an OCZ brand psu. Is this enough for the GPU and CPU you suggested? Oh and also would it be better to upgrade my RAM instead of CPU as I assumed my CPU was not a problem since I rarely find it being fully used on most games but I often find most of my ram is used up. Would it be enough to just upgrade to a 64bit OS as that would allow me to use the full 4gb instead of 3.2 gb or ram. Thanks again!
 
For now, four gigs should be enough of ram if you just want to upgrade performance. Even though your CPU might not be fully used in games, the GPU needs a minimum amount of CPU power to run at its maximum speeds. The 600W power supply should be plenty, OCZ is generally a good brand. I would go with huilun02's suggestion. You will see a huge difference between a 4850 and an R9 270X, and a nice FX four core will easily outpower your two core phenom. As for the operating system, I would suggest updating to 64 bit even if you don't get 8gb of ram. Its just more compatible all around, even though most software is still compiled for 64 and 32 bit operating systems.
 
I have been looking at more gpus as I decided to try and get a slightly cheaper gpu, and maybe buy a new cpu later on depending on how much the gpu is bottle necked. I found an MSI version of the sapphire r9 270x for only 130 pounds and was wondering how much worse (if at all) would performance be? I mostly mean what kind of drop in FPS would I get? I was also wondering what kinda performance I would get with just a MSI twin frozr 7850 (with my current processor)? I managed to find that card for only 91 pounds so it is quite a bit cheaper, and I read that the r9 270x is just a slightly better re branded 7850, so how would it compare? Thanks for any help!