Will this PC be good enough?

John Li · Mar 31, 2013

Hello,
I'm kind of stuck whether to get the 7850 or the gtx 660, the 660 is £1 higher than the 7850, just wondering which is the better card for my budget build.

Zalman Z11 Plus
AMD phenom II x4 965 BE
XMS3 4gb Ram
ASRock 970DE3/U3S3 Motherboard
WD blue caviar 500gb 7200rpm
Corsair Builder Series CX 500 Watt
(And a optical drive for windows)

Btw as a note the prices are : 7850: £146, 660: £147

Edit:
Going to be using a I5 3570k and a WD green caviar 1TB, with a MSI Z77A-G41, Will this be compatible with overclocking? If so how much will I get overclocking with the stock cooler? 7850 will be my choice of graphics

dubstep · Mar 31, 2013

The gtx 660 is a more powerful card overall and will be worth the extra £1.

Airm3n-1292454 · Mar 31, 2013

What resolution are you planning to game at? I've run the gtx 660 in a system before and the thing i would watch out for is that it only has 192 bit bus on it so i believe you could be limited if you try to go up to a higher resolution whereas the radeon has the 256 bit which would possibly allow higher. I don't have any personal experience with that radeon card but if I were in your situation myself personally I would choose the radeon card. Just my 2 cents.

John Li · Mar 31, 2013

Airm3n-1292454 :

Forgot to mention my monitor -_-, Its Acer G226HQLBBD 21.5 its 1920x1080p

John Li · Mar 31, 2013

Duke Nucome :

I won't be getting any games with it as I am ordering everything from amazon.co.uk (shame

.) And I probably won't be overclocking (might in the future we'l see) So overall the 7850 is better? I will be playing Battlefield 3/4, League of legends, Counter strike:GO and probably Dayz and later games that aren't graphically intense like crysis 3 for example.
All on ultra/very high settings, by the way.

John Li · Mar 31, 2013

Duke Nucome :

John Li :

Well to be honest both cards will fit the bill however I personally choose the 7850 because of better IQ and performance and the game bundle was a real tangible bonus. I have to say though that Crysis 3 is very graphically demanding game but the rest of the games you mentioned will play just fine on both of the cards we are talking about and DayZ is buggy and is CPU limited so an Intel CPU is needed to really get the most from that one.

How much fps will I get on battlefield 3 on both cards? I know BF3 prefer nvidia cards, I've chosen i won't be overclocking the gpu so it will be fine to get either, just need good future-proof computer that will handle for around 3-5 years. thanks

Airm3n-1292454 · Mar 31, 2013

Pretty hard to judge on your fps it depends on a lot of things like what you have running in background what kind of temperatures everything is running at etc. As for future proofing that is pretty well impossible. Probably best to save as much as you can. I'd choose the card with the biggest memory bus (7850) and get as much vram as you can on it. Other than that its all up in the wind.

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