need some halp quickly!

[Rifle Eyez 34]

Yes it's gonna be another ''what do I need to run day-z'' thread. But I have done my research and soon as I decide another card or review pops up! So to make it easier for everyone, all I need is a new GPU. I hand built my desktop for intensive music production a year ago so have a good gigabyte mobo, decent case, quad core, 8gb ram, good psu and all the bells and whistles (yup im being vague ha) BUT....my GPU is a Radeon HD 5450. (feel free to troll me but i only needed something cheap)

so...my budget is £200. which is allegedly $310 dollars according to google but the prices are never relative anyway. if possible i'd like to shave a £10-30 off that though for the sake of a extra 3fps or something ridiculous. looking to run DayZ (obviously) at close to max if possible at 1920x1080 on a single monitor (22 inch widescreen asus)

So far i've seen a GTX 480 for £179.99, but i've heard it's pretty noisey and the power consumption is insane, so I'd rather avoid this but i'm not actually sure if it's urban legend haha.

£169.99 for a Radeon 6950 IceQ X PLUS Edition.

£179.99 for a Zotac GTX 560ti which comes pre-overclocked (heard good things but apparently lags a bit in towns on dayz?)

£179.99 for a XFX AMD Radeon HD 7850 2gb

£199.99 for a second hand Asus nVIDIA SLI GeForce GTX 570 in perfect condition

£180 for a Radeon HD7850 2GB

£199.99 for a Radeon 5850 1GB Card

Thoughts? Or alternatives? I'm ordering in the next 2 hours so any advice would be great!!

Edited July 24, 2012 by showtime

[gobacktogo 29]

i generally refuse to reply to threads that have names as this one, as they do not indicate wtf is going on.

this time i made an exeption

[Hood (DayZ) 4]

I would suggest 560ti :)

[Rifle Eyez 34]

i generally refuse to reply to threads that have names as this one, as they do not indicate wtf is going on.

this time i made an exeption

First post, first troll. Awesome! <3

I would suggest 560ti :)

Thats what I thought. Then you read how so and so card is better than the 560ti or is on par with it with less power consumption or less overclocking ability...Argh.

[doom4mr 135]

why not GTX 570 dc II?

[Tweakie 199]

Inb4 "wah wah wah, AMD Drivers suck!"

"£179.99 for a XFX AMD Radeon HD 7850 2gb" = Good choice! and XFX have a better than average warranty.

And it should provide all the GPU power you would need to play DayZ.

You might still be bottlenecked by your Harddisk or CPU, but that is another issue

[BlaBlaSoldier 16]

When you want to play BF3 DONT BUY THE 560ti . It has some serious problems with it.

[Rifle Eyez 34]

why not GTX 570 dc II?

Is the 570 the best card on the list? I thought 199.99 for it was a steal second hand considering i've seen it for £250+

When you want to play BF3 DONT BUY THE 560ti . It has some serious problems with it.

Haha this is why it's been so hard to make my decison. Everytime I've made my mind up i've seen another bad review on a card or some fault...Or even one card overclocks better so in theory is better than a more expensive card and so on.

Inb4 "wah wah wah, AMD Drivers suck!"

"£179.99 for a XFX AMD Radeon HD 7850 2gb" = Good choice! and XFX have a better than average warranty.

And it should provide all the GPU power you would need to play DayZ.

You might still be bottlenecked by your Harddisk or CPU, but that is another issue

Well I have a 320gb 10000 RPM Drive and a 500gb 7200 rpm Seagate drive internally which are both pretty clean cuz I have 2 2tb external HD's and a 500gb seagate external with all my music production stuff on it, with a overclocked quad core i7 and a good mobo/psu so I'm assuming i'd be okay. w/ dual boot windows xp and windows 7 ultimate..

Edited July 24, 2012 by showtime

[Tweakie 199]

Then you should be all set.

But in any case, all of the cards you list, are fine choices (not the "super high-end MUHAHAHAHA POWAAAAAHHH" lines, but solid). Though, I would not personally get a 5850 (using one myself, thinking of replacing), as it is 2 generations old at this point.

Any of them should be good, get the one you like. Ideally you should get a Nvidia 670, but they are still fairly high priced.

[BlksnshN 127]

I'm running a GTX 460 and the game runs great. I haven't checked the FPS, but my eye test says :thumbsup:

[Vintage-Cake 4]

When you want to play BF3 DONT BUY THE 560ti . It has some serious problems with it.

That's just silly, i can play BF3 on high-ultra with 60fps. The problem is that some cards were pre-overclocked, and then bf3 clocked it some more making it crash. Or was that the 550ti? Yeah i think it was. You sure you picked the right card to pick on?

[Rifle Eyez 34]

Think I'm about to go with the Radeon Sapphire 7850 for 199.99 including delivery. Fuuuuuuu. I don't know haha..

[BlaBlaSoldier 16]

That's just silly, i can play BF3 on high-ultra with 60fps. The problem is that some cards were pre-overclocked, and then bf3 clocked it some more making it crash. Or was that the 550ti? Yeah i think it was. You sure you picked the right card to pick on?

I only know that mine 560ti is crashing becuase it has too low voltage on it. I have to change something on Bios but im too lazy.