Best gaphics card for around £150 UK

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Hey guys, 

Not long had to build a budget replacement pc for uni as my old one went the way of the do-do.

One of the components that was not completely dead was the old graphic card with is an underpowered NVidia GeForce GT 320.

The system specs are i5-2500k oc'ed to 3.60, 16GB adata 1600Mhz RAM and two HDD's both old 1TB disks.  Oh and the PSU is a 600W corsair gamer series.

My budget right now is tight but after christmas i would be looking at spending around £150 possibly pushing it up to £200 depending on how many shifts i can pull at the local pub and supermarket.

 

Many thanks

Luke

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For £155 you can get a Sapphire HD 7850 from amazon.co.uk: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sapphire-11200-07-20G-Graphics-HD7850-GDDR5/dp/B008HV63NM/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1354450602&sr=8-3

Also, if you can find a bit more money, for £205.86 you can get an ASUS GTX660(non ti) DirectCU II: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Asus-DirectCU-Graphics-DisplayPort-Surround/dp/B0098VKIRM/ref=sr_1_12?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1354450750&sr=1-12

Hope this helps.


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you should also be able to find a 7870 for around that price, i can get them for 200 Euros, which should be around 160 pounds for you.

here, try this http://uk.hardware.info/#search:7870

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7870 dude definitely! http://www.ebuyer.com/search?sort=price+ascending&q=7870&page=1 any of these depending on how much you can get :) Good luck man, UK ftw!

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Yeah I was looking at the 7870's. Is there any make to look for specficly or like-wise avoid like the plauge?

Thanks for the input guys.

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For graphics cards i tend to go with gigabyte , shapphire or EVGA just my opinion as i have had several good cards from them before

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Go with either an HIS or a Sapphire 7870

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Don't rule out a GTX 660, MSI's GTX 660 with free Assassins creed 3 game is £166 on scan.co.uk!

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Well you could get the r9 280 for a bit less than €180