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[Bofferbrauer2]

Ganoncrotch said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Yes, like I said, my old PC has a Radeon 5770 and an Athlon X4 630.

For the price of that old 780Ti, I could just as well upgrade to a brand new RX 560, only about half as powerful as the 780Ti and just about 50% slower in games, but much more efficient and quiet, and it would work with the same drivers (well, more or less, since the 5770 uses legacy drivers by now).

https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-780-Ti-vs-AMD-Radeon-RX-560-B/2165vsm330029

The 780ti isn't 2x this card you're talking about it's 2.5x the power, also you would not get a new 560 anywhere for £85, those cards launched as a mid range thing back in 2017 as such they're actually not as common to keep in stock anymore, the underclocked variant of it is on Amazon from £95 and the standard version of the card is up there starting @ around £115, you would be as well off to get a 780TI and underclock it to half of its default speeds and you would have a card running nearly silent that would still have the potential play better and cost you less. Given these 2 choices you have 2 doors in front of you, one which is more expensive for less performance and the other door is cheaper and has 2 and a half times the performance gains.

Power could be an issues with the 780TI as the MSI TwinFrozr version of it that CEX sent me out last year or the year before does require 2 8 pin power connectors to it, size could be an issue also as I had to take a pliers to my old sleeper build case to make room for the massive card, but... sound? a non issues with a 780TI fitted with a good aftermarket cooler and drivers? Windows update in windows 10 will get you the base driver you need for that card to start up and honestly if you can find your way to VGchartz you can find your way to the NVIDIA download page to get the full driver set for a graphics card.

But... without getting too much further into this I would strongly not advise spending close to €130 on a card rated so poorly in 2019 if you're going for low end cards pay low end prices, some place like CEX also would offer you 24 months warranty on all their stuff so the fact that it's pre owned shouldn't really worry you in the slightest, they also do fairly significant stress testing before buying in hardware... it would be more likely that a 560 which was sitting in a box for the last 2 years is going to have issues than a 780TI which has been in use and lately tested by CEX before going into your machine.

Here, RX 560 for 99€, which is around 85 British pounds: https://www.alternate.de/ASRock/Radeon-RX560-Phantom-Gaming-2G-Grafikkarte/html/product/1482494?

On the other hand, I couldn't find a 780Ti that wasn't way more expensive than 85 pounds. This might be a regional thing, but in Germany, even a 760 costs 125€ on Amazon.de, with a 780Ti over 150€. At that price point, you're better off buying a 1060 or RX 580 instead and call it a day.