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THE TITLE IS WRONG I MEANT: EVGA GTX 560 SE VS POWERCOLOR 6850

Hi everyone,

I plan to upgrade my gtx 260 because it's not working properly (overheating) I don't need a boost in performance I just want a card that works properly.

my budget is 130$ MAX and I buy from Canada (I prefer direct canada because they offer free shipping on any 50$+ purshase and it's cheaper too)

Here are the cards that I found:

Powercolor radeon 6850 1GB:

http://www.directcanada.com/products/?sku=13630BD3862&v...

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1681...

EVGA 560 GTX SE (it's a new card wich has the same performance as a 460 GTX) the only review I found is in Chineese but you can translate it with google translate there are benchmarks so it gives a nice idea of its performance:

Review: http://www.expreview.com/18741-all.html


GPU: http://www.directcanada.com/products/?sku=16950BD8586&v...

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1681...

Powercolor 6790 (less powerfull then the 2 others):

http://www.directcanada.com/products/?sku=13630BD2028&v...

My questions are:

- Which is the best choice between these cards?
- Do you know other cards that could perform better that suit my budget?
- Is Powercolor a reliable GPU brand?

Thank you

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Zbiba1 said:
Hi everyone,

I plan to upgrade my gtx 260 because it's not working properly (overheating) I don't need a boost in performance I just want a card that works properly.

my budget is 130$ MAX and I buy from Canada (I prefer direct canada because they offer free shipping on any 50$+ purshase and it's cheaper too)

Here are the cards that I found:

Powercolor radeon 6850 1GB:

http://www.directcanada.com/products/?sku=13630BD3862&v...

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1681...

EVGA 560 GTX SE (it's a new card wich has the same performance as a 460 GTX) the only review I found is in Chineese but you can translate it with google translate there are benchmarks so it gives a nice idea of its performance:

Review: http://www.expreview.com/18741-all.html


GPU: http://www.directcanada.com/products/?sku=16950BD8586&v...

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1681...

Powercolor 6790 (less powerfull then the 2 others):

http://www.directcanada.com/products/?sku=13630BD2028&v...

My questions are:

- Which is the best choice between these cards?
- Do you know other cards that could perform better that suit my budget?
- Is Powercolor a reliable GPU brand?

Thank you


If your card is overheating, try blowing the dust out of it. I had to take mine apart to do it and cleaned the mess of the thermal paste up and reapplied arctic silver 5 and it works fine again. You might want to look at an aftermarket cooler for the card, too.
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Already don I tried removing dust use another driver still freezes after 10 min on crysis 2 but when I tried with my brother's GTX 460 it worked like a charm for over an hour

maxinexus said:
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/2012-vga-gpgpu/compa...

6850 gives you better performance per $


1- the cards you compared are not the same: u picked a 560 gtx not a 560 GTX SE

2- take a look at the chineese review I send you we can see that the 560 GTX SE performs better then a 7770 wich has about the same performance as the 6850

What do you think about it, is the gtx 560 SE more powerfull than a 6850?

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-hd-7770-7750...

http://www.expreview.com/18741-all.html#para5

spentshells said:
Do not get the 560 GTX SE it sucks


thank you for your answer but could you give some arguments because the only thing you say is pick this one it's good don't pick this one it's bad but WHY is it better and WHY does the gtx 560 SE suck? Is it only because it's SE ? look at the bench it looks like it performes pretty well...

http://www.expreview.com/18741-all.html

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560 SE is a chopped up 460 gtx which without being gutted still performs under the 6850


so in the end you are buying something which is a gutted version of something not as good as the 6850

spentshells said:
560 SE is a chopped up 460 gtx which without being gutted still performs under the 6850


so in the end you are buying something which is a gutted version of something not as good as the 6850


ok, I understand. In that case I'm gonna go with the 6850

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I recommend this over the powercolour:
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Produ [...] 6814161384
Free game (Dirt 3) and $10 rebate.


I can't afford that... and I already have dirt 3, and why shouldn't I go with the powercolor one is it a bad brand?
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