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Hey guys, I'm upgrading my GPU soon and I was hoping you could help me. I'm currently thinking between:
http://www.gigabyte.com.hr/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5401#ov

http://www.sapphiretech.com/productdetial.asp?pid=F91F672E-3966-44C5-8A20-387F8AFA2F8B&lang=eng

And I was wondering, since I play World of Warcraft: Legion mostly, which of these cards would provide a smooth playing on Ultra?

These are my current specs:

INTEL Core i5 4460 BOX, s. 1150, 3.2GHz, 6MB cache, GPU, Quad Core
ASROCK Z97 Anniversary, Intel Z97, DDR3, zvuk, G-LAN, S-ATA, PCI-E 3.0, USB 3.0, HDMI, ATX, s. 1150
Memory PC-14900, 8 GB, G.SKILL Sniper Series, F3-14900CL9D-8GBSR, DDR3 1866MHz, kit 2x4GB
Radeon HD 6950
SSD Kingston HyperX Fury 120GB
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (10.0, build 10240)

 
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I believe the 470 will be a little out of his price range, the R9 380 as suggested by Kinoteka seems to somewhat hold its own against the 470 though for the relativley minute price difference, though in his case the 470 seems the way to go IF he can afford it.
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Both more than enough to play the games you mentioned, just up to you to decide weather you want AMD/Nvidia. also what PSU do you have?
 
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I have Scythe kamariki 750W
 
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well i can tell you for a fact that you will not max out the settings with a 960. the 960 will let you go ultra in most areas if you turn off anti aliasing completely. and that was with the settings in early legion. the new settings they just released in 7.0, i dont think you will even be able to go to the new ultra.

i have a 970 and still struggle in some areas with the new settings. (unless in raid, then i can ramp it up a bit because they are smaller enclosed areas)
 
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WoW must have changed alot since i played it, i thought even a 750ti would dominate the ultra settings it had to offer. My bad i suppose.
 
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For 260 euros or thereabouts im sure you could get a GTX-1060 OR an AMD RX480 with 8GB VRAM which should be more than enough.
 
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Cheapest AMD RX480 is 350 Euros in my country unfortunately. GTX-1060 is even pricier.
 
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My bad, in the uk they are much lower than this when converted into euros, in that case an RX460 might be a more affordable price and is a pretty good card. not sure that there is an Nvidia equivelant for this card at around the same price, though i could be wrong
 
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How about one of these? http://www.sapphiretech.com/productdetial.asp?pid=B520A2A6-4D37-4499-9584-B6BE8823AAC0&lang=eng

or
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2016/08/04/sapphire-radeon-rx-470-nitro-oc-4gb-review/1

 
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I believe the 470 will be a little out of his price range, the R9 380 as suggested by Kinoteka seems to somewhat hold its own against the 470 though for the relativley minute price difference, though in his case the 470 seems the way to go IF he can afford it.
 
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very much so. the lowest settings are still fine on older hardware at 30 fps. but now with the newer lighting/particle/other settings it takes a pretty strong card to fully max out the game.

not to say that they game wont look great with a 960 or amd equiv, but it wont be ultra 60 fps on 1080p. id say probably high/ultra with no anti aliasing and the view distance down a bit would probably be good.

then again i played vanilla-> mists on laptops/old desktops always on the lowest settings with the framerate capped at 30 fps 😀 it was eye opening when i built my new desktop !
 
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