Please recommend me a Graphics card

Drifter

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Currently have a MSI GTX 660Ti 2GB OC edition. Thinking of upgrading.

Motherboard is an Asrock Z77, 16GB Ram, and i5 3750K CPU. Too many options out there, but I cant spend thousands.
 
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RX470 at Wootware should be just under your budget and the perfect card for you. Substantially faster than a 1050Ti.

You could go to a RX480 if you wanted to spend the extra cash. Get one of the two.

RX470 - R2899
RX480 - R3299

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One thing to bear in mind, and I'm not sure whether this will matter to you. AMD is planning to refresh its graphics card lineup soon. RX470 will become RX570, RX480 will become RX580. The rumour is that the changes are not massive, but the cards might be a little faster. Up to you whether you would like to wait. Apparently we might be 1 or 2 months away from them launching.
 
Thanks for that, I am partial to Nvidia though. Month or two wait is no biggy for me. Food for thought.
 
Keep in mind you have a K series CPU and the "gaming" chipset, you can probably easily overclock to 4GHz.

Even if you love Nvidia don't go for the GTX 1050Ti, if you really can't go R3300 get the RX 470.

I don't know if you ever did get Doom because I know you wanted to play that, the Powercolor RX 480 includes Doom.

Powercolor RX 480 - Includes Doom
 
If you want Nvidia, get one of the following:

1050Ti - R2249
1060 3GB - R3099

EDIT: Its actually difficult to find benchmarks for the 1060 3GB. Anyway, regarding 1060 3GB vs 470, in general, the 470 will be faster in newer games, while the 1060 will be faster in older games. AMD's driver releases since the release of the 470 and 480 have dramatically improved the performance of both, such that whereas the 1060 beat the 480 on release, it doesn't anymore.

The 1060 will use less power though.
 
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Drifter said:
Tin foil hat on. I was just reading up on the GTX 1060 6GB.
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Nice shirt by the way.

One thing to bear in mind - the 1060 6GB is completely different to the 1060 3GB. Not the same card at all. The 3GB has half the memory, but it also has less functional units. It is a LOT slower than the 1060 6GB. You can find a lot of benchmarks of the 1060 6GB but not a lot of the 1060 3GB.
 
Drifter said:
Thanks for that, I am partial to Nvidia though. Month or two wait is no biggy for me. Food for thought.
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You can be partial...just don't be dumb :p

AMD is a better manufacturer in terms of delivering driver support \ optimisation over the life of the product...their GPU's get better over time while Nvidia cards start to fall behind. That's probably a result of one being the dominant force in the market so they don't feel as much of a need to make sure customers get optimised drivers for older cards (my opinion).
 
You won't go wrong with the RX 470, RX 480 4GB or GTX 1060 6GB.

Just don't settle and get the GTX 1050 or GTX 1050Ti.
 
As someone that's owned many Nvidia and AMD cards, AMD cards get better over time with driver releases and DX12 performance is superb.

Depending on how often you upgrade, 3gb RAM may be cutting it thin for such a steep price.
 
Soul Assassin said:
You won't go wrong with the RX 470, RX 480 4GB or GTX 1060 6GB.

Just don't settle and get the GTX 1050 or GTX 1050Ti.
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Agreed.

1050/1050ti is really bad value when you compare to the RX 470.

I'd probably avoid the 3GB 1060 as I really think that memory is just a tad on the low side.

6GB 1060 is great but the price is starting at around R4k which is not in the budget (unless you can find a second hand one on carb).

RX 480 4GB @ R3299 on Wootware is really a sweet deal.
 
I'm running a i5 6400 (i recommend the i5 over the i3 since many games will take advantage of the extra cores) coupled with a GTX 1060 3gb and there is not a game I cannot play comfortably 40-50 fps at 1080p
 
dr_carr said:
I'm running a i5 6400 (i recommend the i5 over the i3 since many games will take advantage of the extra cores) coupled with a GTX 1060 3gb and there is not a game I cannot play comfortably 40-50 fps at 1080p
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60FPS or bust.
 
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