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Upgrading from HD 6850 CF, please help

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August 28, 2013 3:48:18 AM

So as in title curently i have HD 6850 CF and i want to upgrade it soon (this or at the begining of other year). I live in Croatia so prices are 30 % higher then USA or UK. I prefer nVidia because of nVIdia Experience and their shadowplay. I always had AMD cards. So I was looking at GTX 760 OC and it costs cca. 270 £(2200KN). So the question is should i buy GTX 760 or wait for nVidia Maxwell in March 2014. Also my concern is price because I have budget of 330£. Sorry if my English is bad.

Rest of my configuration:
AMD FX 6100 @3.8 GHZ
AMD HD 6850 CF
8GB Kingston 1333MHZ RAM
GIGABYTE 990XA-UD3

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August 28, 2013 4:08:07 AM

If you aren't happy with your 6850, buy 760, because maxwell will be bottleknecked by this processor.
So change to 760 now or wait next year and buy new CPU and GPU.
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August 28, 2013 4:10:32 AM

lithuan1an said:
If you aren't happy with your 6850, buy 760, because maxwell will be bottleknecked by this processor.
So change to 760 now or wait next year and buy new CPU and GPU.

And GTX 760 wont be bottlenecked with fx 6100?
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August 28, 2013 4:15:22 AM

i found a single gtx660 to be an upgrade over 2 6850's in crossfire. Not that it delivered more fps, but that the frame rate delivered at the monitor was actually smooth. Crossfire sucks, also the 1gb vram of the 6850 is a limitation. But unfortunately your cpu is very poor for gaming and will also be a bottleneck. You should be able to sell your 6850's on ebay and recover some money to put toward something else. Take the 760 for now, and look to upgrade cpu to a 6300 or 8350 for much better gaming performance. you could also sell the 6100 to recover some money for a new cpu.
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August 28, 2013 4:19:13 AM

iam2thecrowe said:
i found a single gtx660 to be an upgrade over 2 6850's in crossfire. Not that it delivered more fps, but that the frame rate delivered at the monitor was actually smooth. Crossfire sucks, also the 1gb vram of the 6850 is a limitation. But unfortunately your cpu is very poor for gaming and will also be a bottleneck. You should be able to sell your 6850's on ebay and recover some money to put toward something else. Take the 760 for now, and look to upgrade cpu to a 6300 or 8350 for much better gaming performance. you could also sell the 6100 to recover some money for a new cpu.

Yes 1GB Vram is very limiting but when you said 2gb is much better i remembered that there is 4gb version. Should i rather pick 4gb over 2gb as i plan to have gpu for at least year or year and half. And for CPU I am planing core i5, also i am concerned because of pcie 2.0 instead of pcie 3.0
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August 28, 2013 4:29:06 AM

exsomaniac said:
lithuan1an said:
If you aren't happy with your 6850, buy 760, because maxwell will be bottleknecked by this processor.
So change to 760 now or wait next year and buy new CPU and GPU.

And GTX 760 wont be bottlenecked with fx 6100?

Depends on game, but basically - no
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August 28, 2013 4:31:00 AM

exsomaniac said:
iam2thecrowe said:
i found a single gtx660 to be an upgrade over 2 6850's in crossfire. Not that it delivered more fps, but that the frame rate delivered at the monitor was actually smooth. Crossfire sucks, also the 1gb vram of the 6850 is a limitation. But unfortunately your cpu is very poor for gaming and will also be a bottleneck. You should be able to sell your 6850's on ebay and recover some money to put toward something else. Take the 760 for now, and look to upgrade cpu to a 6300 or 8350 for much better gaming performance. you could also sell the 6100 to recover some money for a new cpu.

Yes 1GB Vram is very limiting but when you said 2gb is much better i remembered that there is 4gb version. Should i rather pick 4gb over 2gb as i plan to have gpu for at least year or year and half. And for CPU I am planing core i5, also i am concerned because of pcie 2.0 instead of pcie 3.0

You don't need 4 GB. 2GB is exactly what you need.
So if you are going for i5, you will change motherboard, which will have pcie 3.0
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August 28, 2013 6:17:08 AM

lithuan1an said:
exsomaniac said:
iam2thecrowe said:
i found a single gtx660 to be an upgrade over 2 6850's in crossfire. Not that it delivered more fps, but that the frame rate delivered at the monitor was actually smooth. Crossfire sucks, also the 1gb vram of the 6850 is a limitation. But unfortunately your cpu is very poor for gaming and will also be a bottleneck. You should be able to sell your 6850's on ebay and recover some money to put toward something else. Take the 760 for now, and look to upgrade cpu to a 6300 or 8350 for much better gaming performance. you could also sell the 6100 to recover some money for a new cpu.

Yes 1GB Vram is very limiting but when you said 2gb is much better i remembered that there is 4gb version. Should i rather pick 4gb over 2gb as i plan to have gpu for at least year or year and half. And for CPU I am planing core i5, also i am concerned because of pcie 2.0 instead of pcie 3.0

You don't need 4 GB. 2GB is exactly what you need.
So if you are going for i5, you will change motherboard, which will have pcie 3.0


Last question . Here is availble GAINWARD GeForce GTX 760 non Phantom and Gigabyte GF GTX 760 OC. They cost the same which sould i pick? And is GTX 760 faster than HD 7950? I have 1600x900 monitor
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