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Willmo

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I am on my way to building my first PC and I am not sure what to pick for my Graphics card. MY budget is £500 for the entire PC. Please could you guys point me in the right direction
 
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For that money its good, well chosen, that was the CPU I was going to list for you but because I didn't know you had a case already etc I figured that in and I needed to shave the cost.

Your setup will be similar to mine while I...
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Yeah sure I'll run you up the best PC possible for £500 that I can think of however your actual requirements would be handy?

Size of PC tower preferred: Midi or Mini

End goal: Games, PC Performance, Multi tasking, how many screens, resolution of screen?
 
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Right I've done one up that totalled at £527.88 but that includes the Windows 8 OS.

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/1lUhE

Its an AM3+ board using a Phenom 3.4 Ghz 4 core black which means you can overclock it, you can also overclock the HD 7850 GPU to a stock 7870 (I own one of these).

The Mobo is Asus which is imo the best board manufacturer and it contains the Flash back feature which means you can update the bios to run the CPU without needing an older CPU (Which is a big problem without this feature).
 
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Willmo

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I have already built a PC but I am wondering on the Graphics card as this is one of the main parts of a PC. AT the moment I have this

CPU AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core £87.59
Motherboard Asus M5A97 LE R2.0 ATX AM3+ £58.54
Memory A-Data XPG Gaming Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 £47.90
Storage Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM £46.80
Video Card Asus GeForce GTX 650 1GB £97.08
Power Supply XFX 550W ATX12V / EPS12V £49.86
Operating System Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) £66.78

Totals to about £455
 
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Then I'd still go with the HD 7850, if you go any less your doing yourself a disservice seeing as you have the capability for it in the rest of your build.

It's the cheapest card you'll get outside of the pricey GPU's but will still deliver so your going to run a bit or so over but you don't want to skimp on this as you may end up regretting it when wanting to play games at a decent frame rate.

The 7850 is better than the 650 and for the sake of £20 your getting a GPU that can overclock to a stock 7870 easily.
 
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Willmo

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This is the build at the moment, I have a case and a stand in monitor at home until I get the money to get a better one.

CPU AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core £89.56
Motherboard Asus M5A97 LE R2.0 ATX AM3+ £58.54
Memory A-Data XPG Gaming Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 £47.90
Storage Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM £44.87
Video Card XFX Radeon HD 7850 1GB £119.99
Power Supply XFX 550W ATX12V / EPS12V £49.86
Operating System Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) £66.78

Totals to £477.50
 
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For that money its good, well chosen, that was the CPU I was going to list for you but because I didn't know you had a case already etc I figured that in and I needed to shave the cost.

Your setup will be similar to mine while I have premium RAM and an SSD you have the better CPU ........ until September, that's when I'm dropping £250 on an Intel Haswell Mobo and i5-4670k CPU or the 3570k if there's a better deal.

All that for flippin Rome II, oh well tide me over for a good 4 years.
 
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