New Build GPU Advice!

kYmo · Oct 11, 2012, 11:37 AM

Hey so i'm going to be builing a new gaming rig in a couple of weeks and i can't decide which gpu to go for out of these two,

ASUS GTX 650 Ti or ASUS HD 6850 DIRECT CU II

I'm gearing more towards the GTX 650 TI as it uses PCI-Express 3.0 and the 6850 is only 2.1 plus there is only a £5 difference in price.

Specs will be:

CPU: i5-3570K
Mobo: Asus P8Z77-V
Ram: GSkill 8GB Ripjaw X 1600Mhz DDR3
PSU: Antec TruePower 650W (Open to suggestions on a better Hybrid-Modular psu arround £60-70 atleast 600w, Dual 12v Rails @ 40amps and above)

Will mainly be used for gaming, i will be doing some overclocking on the cpu for benchies just to see what scores i can achieve etc, not too bothered about overclocking the gpu aslong as it doesn't run too hot an i get decent enough fps that i am able to run an intensive dx11 on medium @ settings720p/1080p res.

Open to suggestions on a better gpu than these two arround £120-130 budget max.

Thanks

kYmo (Y)

Jetster · Oct 11, 2012, 11:58 AM

The GTX 650 Ti FTW
its newer, more efficient and will most likely smoke the 6850. What part of the world do you live in?

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...06,3318-6.html

eidairaman1 · Oct 11, 2012, 12:01 PM

might as well step up to a 660TI

Crap Daddy · Oct 11, 2012, 12:16 PM

Since OPs budget is max £120-130, the only card would be the 650Ti. It also comes with Assassin's Creed III.

Durvelle27 · Oct 11, 2012, 01:06 PM

the HD 7850 1GB is pretty cheap here $164.99 so it shouldn't be that bad there and it outperforms the GTX 650 Ti by a good margin or you can get a HD 6870

MSI HD 7850 1GB £134.98

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/1gb-m...dmi-2x-mini-dp

or

XFX Double D HD 6870 £118.42

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/1gb-x...i-hdmi-2x-mini

Edit:

kYmo · Oct 11, 2012, 01:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jetster

The GTX 650 Ti FTW
its newer, more efficient and will most likely smoke the 6850. What part of the world do you live in?

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...06,3318-6.html

Yeah i was thinking that thanks, and i'm from the UK.

Quote:

Originally Posted by eidairaman1

might as well step up to a 660TI

It's too much best price i can find is £180

Quote:

Originally Posted by Durvelle27

the HD 7850 1GB is pretty cheap here $164.99 so it shouldn't be that bad there an it outperforms the GTX 650 Ti by a good margin or you can get a HD 6870

MSI HD 7850 1GB £134.98

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/1gb-m...dmi-2x-mini-dp

or

XFX Double D HD 6870 £118.42

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/1gb-x...i-hdmi-2x-mini

Edit:

http://imageshack.us/a/img717/228/perfrel1y.gif

http://imageshack.us/a/img819/7073/perfrel19201.gif

Thanks looks like i might go for a MSI HD 7850 oc but its out of stock here :/ i'll have to look else where, the blue on it will go nice with my theme

. I might just spend an extra £15 and get this http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...-154-MS&tool=3 if the deal is still on in 2 weeks that is.

Durvelle27 · Oct 11, 2012, 01:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kYmo

Yeah i was thinking that thanks, and i'm from the UK.

It's too much best price i can find is £180

Thanks for this, looks like i might go for the MSI 7850 oc the blue on it will go nice with my theme

or i might just spend and extra £15 and get this http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...-154-MS&tool=3 if the deal is still on in 2 weeks that is.

Yea the MSi Twin Frozr is an amazing card overclocks great and stays very cool. that would be a great choice. And cool i wanted my pc to have a blue theme but ended having a Black & Red theme

kYmo · Oct 11, 2012, 01:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Durvelle27

Yea the MSi Twin Frozr is an amazing card overclocks great and stays very cool. that would be a great choice. And cool i wanted my pc to have a blue theme but ended having a Black & Red theme

Yea it looks like a beast

. Haha my last one was black/red and i'm trying to go for a black/blue one now but i'm not to fussed if the gpu has red on it more bothered about the performance lol

Durvelle27 · Oct 11, 2012, 01:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kYmo

Yea it looks like a beast

. Haha my last one was black/red and i'm trying to go for a black/blue one now but i'm not to fussed if the gpu has red on it more bothered about the performance lol

well you won't be disappointed as the HD 7850 gives great performance

3870x2 · Oct 11, 2012, 01:36 PM

Is anyone else sort of bored with the recent graphics industry? Back in the day I would eagerly await new benchmarks and releases.

I suppose this is due to the fact that cards 3 generations old can max everything out today, so there is nothing to look forward to.

kYmo · Oct 11, 2012, 01:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Durvelle27

well you won't be disappointed as the HD 7850 gives great performance

Anything would beat my last card XFX HD 4870

Durvelle27 · Oct 11, 2012, 01:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kYmo

Anything would beat my last card XFX HD 4870

that's kind of ironic as i recently had a XFX HD 4870 1GB until i upgraded to my HD 6950 2GB just a month or 2 ago.

it was able to play games on high and some ultra on 1280x720

kYmo · Oct 11, 2012, 02:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Durvelle27

that's kind of ironic as i recently had a XFX HD 4870 1GB until i upgraded to my HD 6950 2GB just a month or 2 ago.

it was able to play games on high and some ultra on 1280x720

Lol madness

had mine for over 2 years never had any problems with it aside the fact the fans where super loud above 60% fan speed on the ATI Catalyst software and any time i used hd res in COD4.

Durvelle27 · Oct 11, 2012, 02:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kYmo

Lol madness

had mine for over 2 years never had any problems with it aside the fact the fans where super loud above 60% fan speed on the ATI Catalyst software and any time i used hd res in COD4.

had mines only for a few moths as it was given to me new but i had a few problems with it as it would get loud when playing BF3 and it would heat up to like 80c and idle 70c

Crap Daddy · Oct 11, 2012, 02:12 PM

Yes, if you can afford it the 7850 1GB is definitely a much better card.

kYmo · Oct 11, 2012, 02:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Durvelle27

had mines only for a few moths as it was given to me new but i had a few problems with it as it would get loud when playing BF3 and it would heat up to like 80c and idle 70c

Yeah that'll be the auto-fan adjust option in Catalyst mine got pretty hot but when i set the fans manually to 58% as i could'nt bare the noisey fans anymore it still worked fine arround 85c+ if i remember correctly, saying that though idk about BF3

.

Durvelle27 · Oct 11, 2012, 02:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kYmo

Yeah that'll be the auto-fan adjust option in Catalyst mine got pretty hot but when i set the fans manually to 58% as i could'nt bare the noisey fans anymore it still worked fine arround 85c+ if i remember correctly, saying that though idk about BF3

.

i always ran my fan at 100% really didn't help much

Oct 11, 2012, 11:37 AM	#1
kYmo Join Date: Oct 2012 Posts: 8 (0.04/day) Thanks: 3 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	New Build GPU Advice! Hey so i'm going to be builing a new gaming rig in a couple of weeks and i can't decide which gpu to go for out of these two, ASUS GTX 650 Ti or ASUS HD 6850 DIRECT CU II I'm gearing more towards the GTX 650 TI as it uses PCI-Express 3.0 and the 6850 is only 2.1 plus there is only a £5 difference in price. Specs will be: CPU: i5-3570K Mobo: Asus P8Z77-V Ram: GSkill 8GB Ripjaw X 1600Mhz DDR3 PSU: Antec TruePower 650W (Open to suggestions on a better Hybrid-Modular psu arround £60-70 atleast 600w, Dual 12v Rails @ 40amps and above) Will mainly be used for gaming, i will be doing some overclocking on the cpu for benchies just to see what scores i can achieve etc, not too bothered about overclocking the gpu aslong as it doesn't run too hot an i get decent enough fps that i am able to run an intensive dx11 on medium @ settings720p/1080p res. Open to suggestions on a better gpu than these two arround £120-130 budget max. Thanks kYmo (Y)

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Oct 11, 2012, 11:58 AM	#2
Jetster Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Oregon Posts: 2,859 (2.35/day) Thanks: 924 Thanked 851 Times in 624 Posts System Specs	The GTX 650 Ti FTW its newer, more efficient and will most likely smoke the 6850. What part of the world do you live in? http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...06,3318-6.html

Oct 11, 2012, 12:16 PM	#4
Crap Daddy Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 2,282 (2.44/day) Thanks: 941 Thanked 961 Times in 669 Posts System Specs	Since OPs budget is max £120-130, the only card would be the 650Ti. It also comes with Assassin's Creed III.

Oct 11, 2012, 01:06 PM	#5
Durvelle27 Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Memphis, TN Posts: 595 (1.90/day) Thanks: 61 Thanked 135 Times in 91 Posts System Specs	the HD 7850 1GB is pretty cheap here $164.99 so it shouldn't be that bad there and it outperforms the GTX 650 Ti by a good margin or you can get a HD 6870 MSI HD 7850 1GB £134.98 http://www.scan.co.uk/products/1gb-m...dmi-2x-mini-dp or XFX Double D HD 6870 £118.42 http://www.scan.co.uk/products/1gb-x...i-hdmi-2x-mini Edit: __________________ Gaming: CM Storm Scout \| AMD FX 8320 @4.4GHz \| Cooler Master Hyper 212+\|Crucial M4 128GB SSD\| Seagate Barracuda 250GB \|Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB \|XFX HD 7870 DD 1200/1450\| ASUS M5A97 EVO \|Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600MHz\| Lite-On Blu-ray 3D burner\| Corsair TX850 850W HTPC: Core 2 Duo E6550\| ASUS IPIBL-LB\| Samsung 2GB(2x1GB) DDR2 667MHz\| Lite-On Blu-ray 3D Burner\| Galaxy GT 440 2GB\| AntecTruPower 480w\| 2x western Digital 500GB HDD\| Audigy 2 ZS w/ Live Bay Last edited by Durvelle27; Oct 11, 2012 at 01:13 PM.

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Oct 11, 2012, 02:12 PM	#15
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