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My Radeon HD 5770 card has just died in one of my machines so am in need of a new replacement.

Anyone up to date with graphics cards have a clue what would be my best option for a replacement in the region of about £80.

I do quite a bit of gaming and the rest of my machine is an i5 2500K with 8GB Ram.

Any suggestions welcome?

In addition what are peoples view on buying second hand cards as I know some people will have over clocked them to death?
 
The 5770 might technically be a bit low end as far as modern gaming is concerned but I bet it quite happily played everything you throw at it without any issue.

My golden rule with graphics cards is buy a good one but only buy one that was good two generations ago. That way you still get a very high spec card that is probably only 10% slower than the current high end card but save 90% of the price.

Paul
 
Playing Thief, Sniper Elite and not the pain in the @ss known as Watch Dogs. ;) I can see some 5770 cards are selling for around the price I'm looking at but wondered if there was anything better for the same money.

Are the R7 250 or 260 cards any good?

Thanks for the responses guys.
 
Paul-H said:
The 5770 might technically be a bit low end as far as modern gaming is concerned but I bet it quite happily played everything you throw at it without any issue.

My golden rule with graphics cards is buy a good one but only buy one that was good two generations ago. That way you still get a very high spec card that is probably only 10% slower than the current high end card but save 90% of the price.

Paul
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Yeah at medium quality with most of the options turned off on the newer stuff ;)

I used to have a single and then crossfire pair :)

Binned them both for a 7850 and the difference is night and day. Not sure what they retail for now or are available second hand.

It's also possible to flash them to 7950 ( think that's right ) firmware and get a large performance boost for no downside.
 
Paul-H said:
The 5770 might technically be a bit low end as far as modern gaming is concerned but I bet it quite happily played everything you throw at it without any issue.l
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At what resolution though? Gaming at 1920x1080 doesn't require much in the way of power, but as I have a 2560x1600 screen, even my 2x 4GB, overclocked GTX670s in SLI are starting to show their age with BF4.

You can't just say Card X is fine for gaming... it's tied to resolution. The higher the resolution of your screen, the more beastly your GPU needs to be.
 
I've got a 550w psu but can't remember the brand off hand...It's a Chillblast PC though.

My screen resolution is 1680*1050 if that makes a difference.
 
Shadow said:
My screen resolution is 1680*1050 if that makes a difference.
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It does. Almost anything will be able to drive that with almost all games, so your budget of £80 is more than adequate.
 
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