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    Hey, the graphics card I have is pretty crappy, and I was trying to find between
    £80-£100 but I don't really understand what the information means.
    Any help? <3
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    Well AMD vs Nvidia,

    Personally i'm nvidia over amd, but amd are for better value for money, nvidia are more expensive but you get top end stuff, also they are best for different tasks such as video editing or rendering or if you want to game, can you give more details on what your likely to be doing mainly?

    If you give a better view of what you want, such as performance, power running costs, i can help you better to pick a card

    Theres loads of specs for gfx cards like clock speeds, memory, shaders, CUDA cores, but if your wanting a general good running card or want to game, these are not really that important, all this only really comes into play when your using 3d rendering software or rendering video, excluding memory ofcource,

    If your looking to game you need to compare real world FPS capabilities, if you find two simular priced cards, one nvidia, one AMD, then youtube or google gtx "" vs amd "", then you will likely find a video from moterboards.org or linustechtips(both great reviewers), these vids will help you decide if amd or nvidia will be the best route as they are completely fair and do not express personal opinions, unlike me, i hate AMD with a passion, but i see why a lower price point is important

    Also, another reason i personally favour nvidia is their Physics engine drivers, nvidia have always had the best driver support, alot of the time nvidia cards out perform amd cards simply because their drivers are better, this makes them in my opinion best for gaming, that amd simply cant match
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    For Gaming, Like LoL, WoW both not massive Graphic settings. I also want to have a high FPS on RS I get 19FPS on Min :/

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    For that price point, looking around, something along the lines of a Nvidia GTX 650, unfortunately, £100 these days is not much to work with, theres probably two versions of the X50 cards from nvidia, normal(nothing) and a Ti at the end, this simply means the card is manufactured with titanium and is suposidly better quality metal(personally i have never seen it make any difference), just incase you worried about what the Ti means (like i once was)

    From personal experience having played all those games since they were first released, i find they have all run better on nvidia cards, as most are DirectX 8-11, although runescape, is actually not very graphics intensive, lag is caused by Jagex being bad because they refuse to move out of the browser software into a stand alone client, i cant see runescape running very differently on either amd or nvidia, but the other games i would definetly go nvidia

    Gimmi a min and i'll see what AMD have at this price range, as i dont keep up with what they are up to lol
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    http://www.scan.co.uk/products/2gb-m...098mhz-cores-9

    upgrade to Dual SLI when you get more moneh

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    ^ that would be a good card, but its a little more than hes looking to pay, and currently out of stock


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    The AMD HD 7770 might be a posibility, its around the same price point as the 650,

    But if you want my personal opinion, dont bother upgrading yet, save up a bit more, upgrade when you have more money, because you can then wait for the gtx 750, which will help make your pc more future proof, because if you upgrade now to a 650, as its a fairly mid range card, you will be behind and outdated again in under a year, and will have a "crappy card" again, so you should wait till you can afford atleast a X70 card from nvidia, because that will last you a good long time and give you really good performance,

    But if you really want a card right this min, or your current is that bad, then look into a gtx 650 or AMD 7770, upto you , but with RS about to maybe move onto HTML5 over java, maybe it will be able to make more use of the graphics card with OpenGL, so it will require a better pc to run at high fps
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    For the lower end of your budget, look for a GTX 550 Ti (Either 1 GB or 2 GB memory) for nVidia or a HD 7770 from AMD, on the higher end, maybe a GTX 560 or HD 6870.

    What I did to come up with these suggestions:
    www.newegg.com
    price point of $100-$200 (cuz CAD/US dollar)(Making your range aprox $130-$160)
    then sort by either best rating or most reviews.
    Any of those cards are going to run the latest games at a decent FPS.

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    Save up a bit more and get this one
    http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B008...sr=8-1&pi=SL75

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    Quote Originally Posted by cause View Post
    For the lower end of your budget, look for a GTX 550 Ti (Either 1 GB or 2 GB memory) for nVidia or a HD 7770 from AMD, on the higher end, maybe a GTX 560 or HD 6870.

    What I did to come up with these suggestions:
    www.newegg.com
    price point of $100-$200 (cuz CAD/US dollar)(Making your range aprox $130-$160)
    then sort by either best rating or most reviews.
    Any of those cards are going to run the latest games at a decent FPS.
    Just FYI, buying below the current series of nvidia (a 500 series card when 600 series has been out this long) is kinda pointless, as 9/10 the 650 will be more or less the same price as the 550 and have 20%~ increase in rendering capabilities or power, generally the same with AMD too, dont buy 6xxx when 7xxx is out

    Also newegg dont deliver to UK
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    Its not really worth buying anything under a 78XX or a 6XX card. Like, the 7870 OCed will be up to the level of a 7950.
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    You'll get better performance for the price with AMD

    as suggested the 7770, I'm not familiar with what your prices look like, but I assume that would be around your 100 mark..

    only reason to get nvidia is if you're writing CUDA with some program or you need physX in a game.. even then you get better performance on an AMD card with a cheap nvidia card for physX dedication..
    not to mention: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_36yNWw_07g


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    Its not really worth buying anything under a 78XX or a 6XX card. Like, the 7870 OCed will be up to the level of a 7950.
    I agree though, I wouldn't go with anything under 7850
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lord View Post
    Its not really worth buying anything under a 78XX or a 6XX card. Like, the 7870 OCed will be up to the level of a 7950.
    I love this but i always look at it as, thats great, but then the 7950 OC'd would be as good as the ...., never ending chain of money sinking, thats how you end up like me with Dual GTX 690's OC'd and an empty wallet


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