- Nov 24, 2013
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I've asked a similar question previously (thanks quilciri!) but I've decided to increase my budget to £300 as an absolute maximum.
My kit is as follows:
CPU I5 (2500K), not overclocked (yet!)
Motherboard Gigabyte Z68 motherboard, with 8gb Corsair Vengeance ram
160gb Samsung SSD/1TB 7200RPM drives.
Power is supplied by a Corsair 650TX and this lot sits in a Fractal Design R3 with an extra 120mm Akasa Apache fan.
My graphics currently consist of a single MSI R9950 Twin Frozr MkIII GPU and a 27" Dell U2711 (1440P) monitor. This lot runs Windows 7 (64 bit).
So I'm mulling over either a MSI Radeon R9 280X Gaming Edition OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with BattleField 4 PC Game Included (£270 at Overclockers Uk) or its Asus equivalent (about £20 cheaper but no BF4, so that's a downer!), or NVidia's offerings, either a MSI 4GB MSI GTX 770 Twin Frozr II, 28nm, PCIe 3.0, 7010MHz GDDR5, GPU 1046MHz, Boost 1085MHz, Cores 1536 at around £285, or a Gainward GeForce GTX 770 Phantom 4096MB GDDR5 at £263.
I've considered looking at a card with 2gb of vram but I've completely discounted this now, I just want to play safe on this front and would rather not take recommendations that go down this route.
Number one priority is gaming on as high a detail setting as possible at 1440p, with low noise being a close second. Any other (Uk based) options would be appreciated.
My kit is as follows:
CPU I5 (2500K), not overclocked (yet!)
Motherboard Gigabyte Z68 motherboard, with 8gb Corsair Vengeance ram
160gb Samsung SSD/1TB 7200RPM drives.
Power is supplied by a Corsair 650TX and this lot sits in a Fractal Design R3 with an extra 120mm Akasa Apache fan.
My graphics currently consist of a single MSI R9950 Twin Frozr MkIII GPU and a 27" Dell U2711 (1440P) monitor. This lot runs Windows 7 (64 bit).
So I'm mulling over either a MSI Radeon R9 280X Gaming Edition OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with BattleField 4 PC Game Included (£270 at Overclockers Uk) or its Asus equivalent (about £20 cheaper but no BF4, so that's a downer!), or NVidia's offerings, either a MSI 4GB MSI GTX 770 Twin Frozr II, 28nm, PCIe 3.0, 7010MHz GDDR5, GPU 1046MHz, Boost 1085MHz, Cores 1536 at around £285, or a Gainward GeForce GTX 770 Phantom 4096MB GDDR5 at £263.
I've considered looking at a card with 2gb of vram but I've completely discounted this now, I just want to play safe on this front and would rather not take recommendations that go down this route.
Number one priority is gaming on as high a detail setting as possible at 1440p, with low noise being a close second. Any other (Uk based) options would be appreciated.
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