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Dade Murphy

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I'm looking for the best graphics card I can get for around R1500. Only found the HD7770 and GTX650. Budget may be flexible by small amount more. Any suggestions?

If necessary my build is below:

Intel i5 3330
Yama Titan 750W
4GB DDR3 1600MHz
Intel DB75EN Mobo
Raidmax Super Aeolus Chassis
 
i would recommend min amd phenom 4 core , any quad core from amd.

q8300 or better or i3 or better.

i3 2100 was just just enough for bf3 , cpu usage about 80%
 
I have a hd7770 on my quad core cpu and it plays everything I throw at it just fine,including battlefield 3 and the latest COD(I can max out most of the settings and still get decent framerates).

For the price I doubt you could go wrong with these AMD cards and the direct x 11.1 support means they will be more future proof than the gtx650.
 
ISP cash cow said:
I generally play TF2 and COD4 but I just like to get a decent graphics card in case I want to upgrade my COD game or try play battlefield. Last battlefield game I played was battlefield 2 :D
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AMD bro, bf 4 looks insane, you would be crazy to stick with cod and avoid bf, you can play both. There is no reason to be a cod or bf player. You can be both :D. Cod generally needs like a p1 with maybe a riva tnt 32 meg but bf 4 requires some nice amd gpu power :D.
 
I would like to get rid of my ASUS 7850 for around R1900. Reason for selling is that I needed a Nvidia card and the CUDA drivers for molecular modeling. I got one and now I have this one is lying round doing nothing.

Graphics Engine: AMD Radeon HD 7850
Bus Standard: PCI Express 3.0
Video Memory: GDDR5 1GB
Engine Clock: 860 MHz
Memory Clock: 4800 MHz (1200 MHz GDDR5)
RAMDAC: 400 MHz
Memory Interface: 256-bit
Resolution: D-Sub Max Resolution 2048×1536, DVI Max Resolution 2560×1600
Interface: D-Sub x 1 (via DVI to D-Sub adaptor x 1), DVI x 2, HDMI x 1, Regular DP x 1, HDCP Support
accessories: CrossFire cable, DVI to D-Sub adaptor
Power Consumption: up to 150W (1 additional 6 pin PCIe power required)
Software: ASUS Utilities & Driver
ASUS Features: DirectCU Series

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The 2GB is pretty good:
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

This is the 1GB version and IIRC it has a score of around 3300 when compared to the 3700 of the 2GB in the above chart.
A good bang for buck card as well:
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu_value.html
 
im throwing everything at my 7950 and I must say...i'm quite impressed.
 
Dade Murphy said:
I'm looking for the best graphics card I can get for around R1500. Only found the HD7770 and GTX650. Budget may be flexible by small amount more. Any suggestions?

If necessary my build is below:

Intel i5 3330
Yama Titan 750W
4GB DDR3 1600MHz
Intel DB75EN Mobo
Raidmax Super Aeolus Chassis
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Go to carbonite.co.za You should be able to get a 7850 for that price range....I sold mine around there a few months back because I didn't need so much power and settled on a 7770 which is good enough for me.
 
Just read that the HD 8000 series is releasing later this year.

Would I get better prices if I waited for its release?
 
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How long it will take for the cards to become cheaper then, and by how much?

Any way to tell from past experience perhaps?
 
Dade Murphy said:
How long it will take for the cards to become cheaper then, and by how much?

Any way to tell from past experience perhaps?
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Theres no point waiting for that,then you might as well go buy HD5770,it goes quite cheap and will run BF3 even.I believe it runs direct x 11.1 also if I'm not mistaken.
 
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