Graphics cards

Doylers

So its time to look at a card for the rig and I honestly can not decide what card to get. I have been tossing between nvidia and amd a bit, seems amd has better value in areas and alot of there cards have 3GB ram inbuilt were its 2Gb with nvidia. I have seen a good view videos and Im pushing towards nvidia for the physX reason, from what I saw it does make a difference in, I know amd has a driver ability for it also but as we know hardware is always better.

So looking at a nvidia card im thinking 680, then either MSI lightning or and EVGA classified. I am pretty confident I will SLI at some stage and I need this to last me a few years.

So does anyone have any experiences with amd and nvidia cards, what would be your personal experience between them?

Do you have a 680,670? Whats your opinion there?

Thanks

Skerries

what's your budget?

Doylers

Skerries wrote: »

what's your budget?

About 600 I suppose, I'll push a touch extra if needed

Gumbi

Doylers wrote: »

About 600 I suppose, I'll push a touch extra if needed

For the card or the rig? Do you already hae a rig? What are its specs. No point in spending more money than necessary - what are your requirements, what will you be using the computer for?

Doylers

Gumbi wrote: »

For the card or the rig? Do you already hae a rig? What are its specs. No point in spending more money than necessary - what are your requirements, what will you be using the computer for?

Card:D

3770k 0C to 4.3(for now)
16gb vengence OC to 2000mhz
asus p87zz deluxe
and so on

It can take it no worries there, gaming everything on max and driving media server. Will be alot of gaming done here thats for sure

uncle_sam_ie

If you want nvida then the 670 would be a better buy than the 680. But, the AMD 7970 with the 2 free games package would be the way to go with that budget especially if you have more than one monitor.

Doylers

uncle_sam_ie wrote: »

If you want nvida then the 670 would be a better buy than the 680. But, the AMD 7970 with the 2 free games package would be the way to go with that budget especially if you have more than one monitor.

Thinking that myself. Yeah on the http://www.aria.co.uk/ site some serious amd deals to be had there but last thing I would want to do it sacrifice a better card over a few games.

Serephucus

I'd go for the 670. I don't really see the point in a Lightning/Classified though. There's only so high these cards will go, and unless you really want to burn your money, they're not really worth it. Put the money into water cooling or an SSD or something.

Doylers

Cool I went for the evga 670 ftw 4Gb with metro and assassins creed

Serephucus

So about the "money to burn" and "is a waste" bits...

indough

arf! im pulling the trigger on a regular evga 670 on monday, was tempted to go for a ftw for the 680 pcb but i couldnt be arsed now

Doylers

indough wrote: »

arf! im pulling the trigger on a regular evga 670 on monday, was tempted to go for a ftw for the 680 pcb but i couldnt be arsed now

There wasnt a big diff in price between the ftw and the normal one. Especially on the evga site where you can buy direct from.

indough

Doylers wrote: »

There wasnt a big diff in price between the ftw and the normal one. Especially on the evga site where you can buy direct from.

hmm i'll have a look see thanks, i think i found the 670 pretty cheap on amazon though, just have to get rid of my laptop to fund it first

Doylers

indough wrote: »

hmm i'll have a look see thanks, i think i found the 670 pretty cheap on amazon though, just have to get rid of my laptop to fund it first

I sold most of everything I own Make sure you trow the card from amazon to here http://www.flubit.com/ should save you a few pound

indough

Doylers wrote: »

I sold most of everything I own Make sure you trow the card from amazon to here http://www.flubit.com/ should save you a few pound

oh yeah man im using that the last while now haha, got my psu on there. i put the 670 through it and only got a saving of 6% (still a significant amount of money i guess) but i think ill try it again and see if they give more off. im not sure if ill use them for this as ill be buying a h220 cooler soon and i only have one free parcel motel stay left

Doylers

indough wrote: »

oh yeah man im using that the last while now haha, got my psu on there. i put the 670 through it and only got a saving of 6% (still a significant amount of money i guess) but i think ill try it again and see if they give more off. im not sure if ill use them for this as ill be buying a h220 cooler soon and i only have one free parcel motel stay left

Where you getting the h220 from? Thats the cooler I want to buy but there hard to find around europe. Cheapest I found was 140. Good cooler though lets you expand andwatercool gpu at some stage easily which is a bonus

indough

specialtech, its not going to be in stock until may though, its out of stock everywhere as they had to move to a new factory but count yourself lucky as there were teething problems in the first batch

Doylers

indough wrote: »

specialtech, its not going to be in stock until may though, its out of stock everywhere as they had to move to a new factory but count yourself lucky as there were teething problems in the first batch

Bookmarking that site So thats why there impossible to find? What was up with the earlier batch's?

indough

Doylers wrote: »

Bookmarking that site So thats why there impossible to find? What was up with the earlier batch's?

there was apparently some contaminant in the coolant which was causing the pump to get backed up and turn itself off. the last batch to head to the us were individually flushed before being sold on for this reason. they are also including a sata rather than molex connector for the fan splitter on the next run