What game are you playing?

[Electric_Head]

I've found a Radeon HD7850 OC 2GB for under $200.
2nd hand but I'm considering it.
It's only 1.6 months of a 3 yr warrenty.

What do you think?

The 650 TI & 670 jump by &100 here in SA.

[Electric_Head]

What do you think of this card?

http://www.wootware.co.za/review/product/list/id/13400/

[Forum]

I have 7870 except it's sapphire ( I have no idea what the sapphire means)

Not sure how it compares to NVidia cards but it can play anything on max settings

[Electric_Head]

Sapphire cards get good reviews.
Most of the 7 series seem to rate very highly compared to their semi-equivalent nvidia models.

[Forum]

I read a few times that they have less problems with overheating which is why I went for that one

[Electric_Head]

Less heating issues, lower voltage and lower power consumption from what I'm reading.
Not to mention the fps increase.

[Forum]

Are you using a stock power supply? I had to put a new one in when I changed the card

[Electric_Head]

I've got a 650w gaming psu.
It was necessary for my previous card.

[Trichome]

need to upgrade my cpu soon. got an i3 2100 which is probably the best bang-for-your buck processor i've ever had, getting a bit too weak for some recent titles that are more cpu heavy.

not sure if i can be bothered to upgrade to haswell so i'll probs end up getting an i5 2500k. will last me another couple years, plus anything more than that is just overkill (for gaming anyway)

need to bite the bullet and get an ssd soon too, new intel ones are looking ridic in terms of speed.

[deadly_habit]

Sapphire cards get good reviews.
Most of the 7 series seem to rate very highly compared to their semi-equivalent nvidia models.

I dunno I went from AMD to Nvidia and am not looking back. Better driver support and with how many games use Physx now it's worth the little bit extra cost.
AMD you can snag for cheaper, and they seem to spec a bit more bang for your buck, but always seem to have some sort of issues.

[NickUndercover]

Finally got 100% on NFS most wanted 2012. If that Koenigsegg is as fast in reality as it is in the game it should probably be illegal

[Marcus]

Sapphire cards get good reviews.
Most of the 7 series seem to rate very highly compared to their semi-equivalent nvidia models.

I dunno I went from AMD to Nvidia and am not looking back. Better driver support and with how many games use Physx now it's worth the little bit extra cost.
AMD you can snag for cheaper, and they seem to spec a bit more bang for your buck, but always seem to have some sort of issues.

I have never had issues from either camp, Physx hardly really gets used and the performance hit is normally rather silly for the effects you get.

[deadly_habit]

Sapphire cards get good reviews.
Most of the 7 series seem to rate very highly compared to their semi-equivalent nvidia models.

I dunno I went from AMD to Nvidia and am not looking back. Better driver support and with how many games use Physx now it's worth the little bit extra cost.
AMD you can snag for cheaper, and they seem to spec a bit more bang for your buck, but always seem to have some sort of issues.

I have never had issues from either camp, Physx hardly really gets used and the performance hit is normally rather silly for the effects you get.

Well a prime example in the upcoming Arkham game is without Physx you won't have any fog
Youtube is far from prime to demonstrate high end graphics effects since it's frame limited and such, but should give the idea


AMD I had more issues with visual errors, artifacting and tearing in older games, some newer. Never had any glaring issues, but have had none of these since switching brands on my last upgrade, plus all the pretty proprietary Nvidia stuff like Physx and the H.264 cuda video rendering on GPU among other things.

[Marcus]

Wow one game out of 100's that come out. I understand part of the proprietay Nvidia advantages such as the ability to use cuda, h264 encoder in adobe after effects but most people don't even use these features.

[deadly_habit]

Wow one game out of 100's that come out. I understand part of the proprietay Nvidia advantages such as the ability to use cuda, h264 encoder in adobe after effects but most people don't even use these features.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ga ... sX_support
Better to have it for games that use it than not.
Honestly if on a tight budget AMD all day, otherwise Nvidia.
Kind of the same thing with CPUs, if on a budget AMD, otherwise Intel.

Also after these announcements today Nvidia has another proprietary leg up
http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/10/18/nvidi ... o-the-gpu/
http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/10/18/nvidi ... ia-twitch/

[Marcus]

Wow one game out of 100's that come out. I understand part of the proprietay Nvidia advantages such as the ability to use cuda, h264 encoder in adobe after effects but most people don't even use these features.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ga ... sX_support
Better to have it for games that use it than not.
Honestly if on a tight budget AMD all day, otherwise Nvidia.
Kind of the same thing with CPUs, if on a budget AMD, otherwise Intel.

Depends what you call budget graphics cards really, for example the UK you can get 7970's for around the £230 mark which is no slouch at all and should be able to handle pretty much all 1080p gaming. The 770's are around the £300 mark.

[deadly_habit]

Wow one game out of 100's that come out. I understand part of the proprietay Nvidia advantages such as the ability to use cuda, h264 encoder in adobe after effects but most people don't even use these features.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ga ... sX_support
Better to have it for games that use it than not.
Honestly if on a tight budget AMD all day, otherwise Nvidia.
Kind of the same thing with CPUs, if on a budget AMD, otherwise Intel.

Depends what you call budget graphics cards really, for example the UK you can get 7970's for around the £230 mark which is no slouch at all and should be able to handle pretty much all 1080p gaming. The 770's are around the £300 mark.

Well Nvidia just announced the 780 ti so something tells me their prices are going to drop soon
http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/10/18/nvidi ... tx-780-ti/

Heh PC Gamer was good for Nvidia press releases today.

[Marcus]

We will have to wait and see what the 290x pricing is first before Nvidia makes their move.

[wysockisauce]

I know that feels hugh.
Going on a week and a half now that I've been waiting for my replacement.

Just phoned to find out they are refunding me for the damaged GTX550TI.
Now to decide what to get as a replacement.

Suggestions?

Pay attention to prices

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814161420

7950 here with 3 games for $180

I heard newegg had 7950's for $150 recently, which is pretty damn good.

[Electric_Head]

Take into account South African availability.
The postage charge & tax.
It's fairly expensive.
Plus no local warranty support.