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Kenzie
13-10-14, 06:25 AM
Morning again people! I am thinking of upgrading my pc graphics card. I currently have a AMD HD 5770 and it is showing its age. It can run most games from the last couple of years quite comfortably, such as Far Cry 3 and Battlefield 3. However it cannot run BF4 above low. This causes lag and the display looks like something off a PS2. Its been a while since I bought one but the whole gpu clock and vram clock is confusing me. Any suggestions? Budget around £150. CPU fyi is an Intel i5 2400 and currently have 4gb ram on Windows 7 32. Can reinstall to 64bit and add more ram as well if this would help.

Redmist
13-10-14, 12:24 PM
I bought this for the PC I built a couple of months ago.

R9 270x graphics card. (https://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Graphics+Cards/AMD+Radeon/Radeon+R9+270/Sapphire+Radeon+R9+270X+Dual-X+Boost+OC+AMD+Graphics+Card+2GB+Graphics+Card+?pr oductId=57842)

(If your mother board is older, I would ring them and ask if it fits your motherboard just to be sure tho)

I built virtually the same system as the one shown in this video below, whether or not you'd need to bump up any other of your specs I wouldn't know:

He runs BF4 on high settings at about 20mins in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WQxr59KRto

keith_d
14-10-14, 08:14 PM
There's a nice table here showing roughly which cards are faster.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/gaming-graphics-card-review,review-32899-7.html

If your power supply can handle it Redmist's suggestion would be good. If not you might want to look at the GTX750Ti. It's not as fast as the Radeon but it uses a whole lot less power.

I've got a GTX750Ti coming later this week to drive my new monitor. But I don't think it can deliver 2k resolution at any usable frame rate.

NTECUK
15-10-14, 06:30 AM
Maybe think of updating the psu as well.Asus AMD Radeon R9 270 975MHz 2GB GDDR5 PCI-E 3.0 HDMI DirectCU II OC
Had to up the psu to get it right

Kenzie
15-10-14, 07:41 AM
Think there is a 560w unit in there at the moment.

NTECUK
15-10-14, 08:16 AM
We had to up to 750 to get it right
Mind the original corsair modular psu gets very mixed reviews
But we do overclock the AMD Bulldozer

Kenzie
15-10-14, 08:38 AM
That is the other option, overclock the GPU. Got a decent cooler on it but never really dabbled with the clocks.

NTECUK
15-10-14, 09:07 AM
But in games it's the card that's doing all the hard work, so as they are not a bad price for the performance it's worth getting a upgrade.
We clocked his N vidia but it got a bit silly with the heat it made.
And all the family got annoyed with the fan noise

JulesW
15-10-14, 10:57 AM
£150 should buy you a really good card. GeForce cards usually get good press.

Kenzie
15-10-14, 11:45 AM
I swapped out the 5770s stock cooler for an Artic Cooling one because of the noise. Wisper quiet now but lagging badly in Bf4

Sent from my Xperia T

JulesW
15-10-14, 12:12 PM
http://www.techradar.com/news/computing-components/graphics-cards/11-best-graphics-cards-in-the-world-today-654141/2#articleContent

SoulKiss
15-10-14, 09:33 PM
Always been an Nvidia guy (old choices due to availabiliy of Linux drivers in the bad old days)

So if I was goung to upgrade my MSI Talon Attack GTX 480 SLi setup it would be a GTX980 for me.

Not playing anything at the moment that warrents the outlay but new shinyness is always good...

Kenzie
16-10-14, 06:05 AM
This one looks pretty good:

http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/Other+products/MSI+Twin+FrozR+DRAGON+GeForce+GTX+760+OC+2048MB+GD DR5+Graphics+Card+?productId=57087

Specification:
- Core Clock: 1085MHz (GK104)
- Core Boost Clock: 1150MHz
- Memory: 2048MB GDDR5
- Memory Clock: 6008MHz (Effective)
- Memory Interface: 256-Bit
- Processing Cores: 1152
- Shader Clock: 2116MHz
- Bus Type: PCI-Express GEN 3.0 (Backwards compatible)
- Display Connectors: Dual-Link DVI-I and DVI-D, 1x HDMI 1.4a & 1x Displayport
- SLI Ready (Upto 3-Way SLI Supported)
- HDCP Capable
- DirectX 11 Support
- OpenGL 4.0 Support
- PhysX Enabled
- CUDA Enabled
- 3D Vision Enabled
- NVIDIA Surround Enabled
- Lower power consumption (Maximum consumption 170 watts at stock speed) - 1x 8-pin & 1x 6-Pin PCI-E Connectors required
- Warranty: 3 Years

Current spec on my 5770 is:

850mhz gpu, 1200mhz vram and 1gb DDR