It was inevitable....Advice please.

lazerus

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I've been running a GeForce GTS450, and I think it finally gave up the ghost yesterday. It's in the shop but I don't hold out much hope.
The poor old thing did me well, BF3, War Thunder, MW3 and Titanfall. Though I think I've played ED more than all the others combined. (To be honest I blame my brief foray into Star Citizen for it's demise)
So, the question is what do I buy? I don't have my system spec at the moment for obvious reasons but it's an i5 (quad core I think), I'm hoping to get away with a £100 spend. ED site says minimum requirement is GTX260, I'm looking at Geforce GTX660/750.
Any thoughts?
 
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Cmdr Andy B

Cmdr Andy B
for £100 you could get 2 fairly good cards on ebay and set them up in SLI mode, that's provided you can get 2 of the same card and your PSU will handle it.
 

Nutter

Nutter
MSI GeForce GTX 750Ti OC Twin Frozr 4 - Just over £100

EDIT - Ninja'd ! Anyway £118.00 Probably cheaper somewhere - great card for the price! - Will run MAX
 
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Matnik

Matnik
I recently had a similar problem with a 550Ti, but it's been on the way out for a while (thanks, Farcry 3...) so when it finally packed in, I did a bit of looking around as well. Same budget, £100-150.

Found the Asus 750Ti on Amazon for £108, I've heard bad things about Ti cards in general but I've not found anything in reviews to back up the complaining, and my card did well enough for three years. I'm of the mindset that card value depreciates so quickly, that there's no point shelling out hundreds for the slightly higher settings. If a game's good, it doesn't need to run on Ultra.
 

Kalpa

Kalpa
I have a 750Ti myself, MSI manufactured iirc, and after all the years spent with power-hungry, hot and ofter noisy GFX cards, I've been very happy with this one.

Oh, and I'm running ED with full detail, I think, and I don't really notice bad fps (then again I really can't notice if it stays over 30 - never understood all the elite quake players who needed 200, 300, 400 fps... :p)
 
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scorpyon

scorpyon
I had an Nvidia GTS450 as well for my previous gfx card. I eventually decided to get a proper upgrade.

I ended up getting a GTX 770 4GB for approx. £140 or so. That was about 6 months ago.

BE WARNED THOUGH - your GTS450 is a pretty old gfx card and as such uses a lot less requirements than a newer better one will. I discovered that I needed to upgrade almost my whole machine to accomodate the new card. In particular, check your Power reqs and whether your motherboard can handle it, etc.
 

Whiterose

Whiterose
Kalpa said:
I have a 750Ti myself, MSI manufactured iirc, and after all the years spent with power-hungry, hot and ofter noisy GFX cards, I've been very happy with this one.

Oh, and I'm running ED with full detail, I think, and I don't really notice bad fps (then again I really can't notice if it stays over 30 - never understood all the elite quake players who needed 200, 300, 400 fps... :p)
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Snap. Running at ultra quality, I would recommend it for ED.
 

Aquila Oculus

Aquila Oculus
I had a Gigabyte 650Ti BOOST before I upgraded to a Gigabyte G1 Gaming 970 and the 650 ran Elite at full settings @1080p very well.

I only upgraded because I wanted to use DSR.

The 750 Ti was a direct like for like replacement for the 650Ti so it's a good choice for a budget card imo :)
 

NumptyScrub

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Matnik said:
I recently had a similar problem with a 550Ti, but it's been on the way out for a while (thanks, Farcry 3...) so when it finally packed in, I did a bit of looking around as well. Same budget, £100-150.

Found the Asus 750Ti on Amazon for £108, I've heard bad things about Ti cards in general but I've not found anything in reviews to back up the complaining, and my card did well enough for three years. I'm of the mindset that card value depreciates so quickly, that there's no point shelling out hundreds for the slightly higher settings. If a game's good, it doesn't need to run on Ultra.
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I used to always get the top end GPUs, but my last 2 have been x60 rather than x80 (a GTX460 and now a GTX760). Personally I wouldn't go below an x60, the reduction in capability (reduced compute core count) is often not properly offset by the reduction in price when you get to the x40 or lower cards.

Whilst I can confirm the GTX760 handles the game fine (I can get acceptable performance on an Oculus Rift @1080p, and up to 200fps using a 1080p monitor) if you can stretch to £150 then get a GTX960. That appears to be a good balance of price:performance and should perform fine for at least the next 2-3 years.

I've not bought an AMD in decades, so I don't feel qualified to comment on which of those would be suitable ^^;
 

lazerus

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scorpyon said:
I had an Nvidia GTS450 as well for my previous gfx card. I eventually decided to get a proper upgrade.

I ended up getting a GTX 770 4GB for approx. £140 or so. That was about 6 months ago.

BE WARNED THOUGH - your GTS450 is a pretty old gfx card and as such uses a lot less requirements than a newer better one will. I discovered that I needed to upgrade almost my whole machine to accomodate the new card. In particular, check your Power reqs and whether your motherboard can handle it, etc.
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Good advice, thanks, I seem to remember when they built the machine there were some limits on which GPU. I think there will be some upgrading required.
 

Top Cat

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Im running an R9 270 which is happy to run three screens at 1080p. The frame rate does suffer a bit in stations (drops to mid 20s) but it is always playable. 60 or 120fps is all very nice, but things only really get noticeable when you hit the low 20s - after all, movies run at 24fps with no issues!
 

scorpyon

scorpyon
lazerus said:
Good advice, thanks, I seem to remember when they built the machine there were some limits on which GPU. I think there will be some upgrading required.
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Happy to help! When you're done, it will open up a whole new world! THe GTX cards versus the old GTS ones are like night and day! Heh!
 
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