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June 8, 2014 2:08:43 PM

Hi,

So im very new to graphics cards, i have nearly no idea what anything means on them, i am building a gaming computer, i have decided on everything but the graphics card. The processor i am getting is an AMD FX6300, and i have in mind the Asus R9 270 graphics card, would this be good enough to run games like BF4, Planetside 2, call of duty, skyrim, things like that, maybe even metro last light at a push?

Thanks, and if it cant, could anybody give me a link into something near that price range what could?

:) 

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June 8, 2014 5:12:48 PM

That card will give you some great performance for under $200.
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June 9, 2014 2:44:42 AM

So, i have decided on the 270, is it worth me paying an extra £15 for the 270X? What is the difference really.
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June 9, 2014 4:43:35 AM


Sovnsauce said:
So, i have decided on the 270, is it worth me paying an extra £15 for the 270X? What is the difference really.


The 270x has slightly higher clock speeds, though you could overclock the 270 to the same performance as the 270x so it's really up to you if you want to spend the extra 15 or not.
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June 9, 2014 5:17:49 AM

I will probably spend the extra 15 because i really no nothing about overclocking, i wouldnt want to mess anything up. Thanks :) 
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June 9, 2014 4:51:09 PM

The think about overclocking cards up to the speed of the next level card is the argument goes away when you consider that the next card up the ladder can be overclocked too. Also to be considered is the 3rd party cards with boosted overclocks which sometimes are just a reference card with a factory overclock. However most times they are not. They are very different cards with different, custom PCBs and beefed up VRMS. Takes a bit of research to figure out which one is which.

Overclocking GFX cards is cake.

I. Install cards and drivers.
2. Install MSI Afterburner or utility of choice, all based upon same underlying code.
3. Look up review on your card
4. Match the reviewers settings.
5. If ya get a crash, gets too loud whatever tone it down a notch

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/amd_radeon_r9_270_...
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June 9, 2014 5:58:12 PM

The Gigabyte card is attractive cause it is aggressively overclocked outta the box. It's quite a bit loud tho. Most Asus, MSI and Gigabtye cards should all OC to about 1090 base core (sometimes more), so just keep in mind that there's not much to be gained by manually OC'ing these guys because they took the same approach as AMD did with the R7/R9's. The MSIs will go well over 1200 on the core but MSIs memory overclocking performance is not that hot in cards with Elpida memory (The MSI 780 Ti uses Hynix). The Asus cards will go to 1200ish in core and 7200 or more on memory .... haven't been able to get memory up there as much with MSI or Gigabyte.

So if ya a tweaker, the Asus / MSI cards may be a better choice, the MSI especially given it's price. But the Gigabyte is "guaranteed" to run at that speed which either means ya gonna have a very good binned GPU or you are gonna be spending some time RMA'ing it back.... I had that experience with an EVGA FTW some years back.... 5 RMAs and 18 months before they gave up and sent a next gen card.
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June 11, 2014 11:12:03 PM

@MCWarriorz (For some reason i cant quote on phones) I'd love that card, but i just dont have the money for it atm. Maybe if i upgrade in a few
months. I think for my first system it would be wise to go with that one. Maybe when i upgrade i will consider the overclocking potential of other cards, because i will probably have more confidence with it.

Thanks to all others that helped.

@JackNaylorPE

After reading this thread, im going to go with the 270x. I have watched some youtube vids on the GPU paired with my processor..And it gives some great fps and quality.
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June 12, 2014 9:46:10 AM

I just got the gigabyte card and it is a beast. According to multiple benchmarks, it can actually be better than a titan.
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