Help picking a Graphics Card

FrozenHam · Jul 23, 2014

Trying to decide the best graphics card for my build:

Intel i7-4770K
Corsair H60
MSI Z87-GD65 Gaming
Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB)
PNY XLR8 240GB SSD + 1TB HDD in my current build
NZXT Phantom 410 Case
Corsair 750W ATX12
An Optical Drive
Windows 8.1 (64Bit)

Budget is $200-$300 for the graphics card. Trying to future proof this build to only need minimal upgrades. Any other changes to the build are welcome!

Gam3r01 · Jul 23, 2014

760/770/280/280x

It varies depending on the needs, Plan for SLI etc.

Extremehotdog · Jul 23, 2014

XFX 280x:
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/xfx-video-card-r9280xtdbd

FrozenHam · Jul 23, 2014

Gam3r01 :

Like i said i want to do this with minimal upgrades and in the future i guarantee i will do SLI/Xfire. I'm here because this will be my first build and i want to do it right

FrozenHam · Jul 23, 2014

Extremehotdog :

I was actually looking at that exact card earlier and im glad to see it is a good choice! Thanks for the tip!

Extremehotdog · Jul 23, 2014

FrozenHam :

No problem

Gam3r01 · Jul 23, 2014

I would take a sapphire 280x.
XFX dosent make BAD cards persay, but there are better cards such as sapphire.
If you plan to SLI you should get 4GB models of Nvidia cards, AMD has the 3GB anyway.

JackNaylorPE · Jul 23, 2014

MSI has the best cooler ....they all, well most, do a decent job cooling but the MSI is typically way quieter.

270x http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127761 ($190)
280 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127789 ($220)
760 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127745 ($240)
280x http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127759 ($290)
770 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127741 ($320)

The toughest call is 280x vs the 760 and the 280x is 16% faster than the 760 for 21% more money

The 770 is a bit above ya budget but is the fastest one....6% faster than the 280x for 6% more money .... decent tradeoff if ya can swing it and it does OC better so that gap will widen substantially. But you can get several 770s for under $300.

I'd take the 770 over the 280x .... kinda on the fence on the 280 versus the 760

As for 2GB vs 4GB I don't see it at 1920 x 1080, neither do these guys
http://alienbabeltech.com/main/gtx-770-4gb-vs-2gb-tested/3/

There isn’t a lot of difference between the [2GB and 4Gb 770s] cards at 1920×1080 or at 2560×1600. We only start to see minimal differences at 5760×1080, and even so, there is rarely a frame or two difference......

Metro: 2033 is completely unplayable on either card at our highest resolution, and even GTX 770 4GB SLI wouldn’t be playable either. .... This leaves five games out of 30 where a 4GB GTX 770 gives more than a 1 frame per second difference over the 2GB-equipped GTX 770. And one of them, Metro: Last Light still isn’t even quite a single frame difference.

There is one last thing to note with Max Payne 3: It would not normally allow one to set 4xAA at 5760×1080 with any 2GB card as it claims to require 2750MB. However, when we replaced the 4GB GTX 770 with the 2GB version, the game allowed the setting. And there were no slowdowns, stuttering, nor any performance differences that we could find between the two GTX 770s.

That last paragraph is key .... just because a game can use more than 2 GB, as you can see, it made no observable difference in performance.

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