Recommend a card for under £200

afromac

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I'm finally order a card this week, and want something that should cover me for at least the first couple years of next gen console ports and mid/upper-tier pc gaming.

CPU is currently G860, but I will eventually upgrade to an i5/i7 Ivy Bridge. My PSU is crap, and any recommendations would be appreciated. The Board is an Asus Maximus Gene V (I went cheap on CPU, but tried to give myself room to upgrade in the future).

I'm looking at deals on Scan.uk at the moment, and have no preference with regard to Nvidia/AMD or manufacturer (although reliability is a major concern).

Overclocking is also not an important factor in my decision, nor is sli/crossfire.

I plan to game solely at 1080p.

If I were able to play Watch Dogs and Titan Fall on top settings @ 1080p60 I would be very happy, but appreciate that as they are not released yet, it is hard to speculate what their requirements may be.

Currently I am trying to decide between HD 7950, GTX 670 and GTX 760.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
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Best cards for <>£200 in the UK are going to be the GTX760 or HD7950, only consider the older GTX670 if its cheap/er.
I'm not going shopping for you right now because I have an appointment with some pirates on a pretty tropical island so I'll just give you a few extra names to search in your Quest: Aria, Scan, CCL, Novatech, Dabs, Overclockers, Pixmanina, Ebuyer and the ever popular Amazon.
The GTX760 is marginally faster and tends to be a little cooler/quieter while the HD7950 overclocks like a mad thing and has some nice free games with it.
Avoid the 7950s with a single cooling fan, they're noisy and run hot.
Look for a 500-600Watt power supply with at least dual 6 pin PCI-E leads (2x6+2 is better) Corsair, Seasonic, Silverstone...

Uther39

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This GPU..
PALIT JetStream GeForce GTX 760 OC 2048MB GDDR5 Graphics Card
http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/Other+products/PALIT+JetStream+GeForce+GTX+760+OC+2048MB+GDDR5+Graphics+Card+?productId=56372
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With this PSU..
600W Corsair Builder Series CX600M 80PLUS Bronze Modular
http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Power+Supplies/Modular+650W+or+less/600W+Corsair+Builder+Series+CX600M+80PLUS+Bronze+Modular+Power+Supply+?productId=53656
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afromac

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Thanks. Would you consider this a better card than this one?:

MSI GeForce GTX 670 Twin Frozr Power Edition OC Overclocked NVidia Graphics Card - 2GB. Sorry - link broken.


 
Best cards for <>£200 in the UK are going to be the GTX760 or HD7950, only consider the older GTX670 if its cheap/er.
I'm not going shopping for you right now because I have an appointment with some pirates on a pretty tropical island so I'll just give you a few extra names to search in your Quest: Aria, Scan, CCL, Novatech, Dabs, Overclockers, Pixmanina, Ebuyer and the ever popular Amazon.
The GTX760 is marginally faster and tends to be a little cooler/quieter while the HD7950 overclocks like a mad thing and has some nice free games with it.
Avoid the 7950s with a single cooling fan, they're noisy and run hot.
Look for a 500-600Watt power supply with at least dual 6 pin PCI-E leads (2x6+2 is better) Corsair, Seasonic, Silverstone, Antec and OCZ are all highly regarded, avoid cheap 'high output' units like the plague-they're cheap for a reason, a bad reason.
 
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afromac

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Would I be correct in thinking that a GTX 670 is better than a GTX 760? There are some really good deals on the old 670s right now; would there be any downsides to picking one up?
 

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