Upgrade help

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robbww77

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Atm, i have ATI 6850, i want to upgrade so i can max games like BF3 and Far Cry 3 and future game releases

im thinking of buying either MSI HD 7850 or GTX 660

should i go for ATI because i have an ATI card atm?

i have around £180 to work with

thanks
 

My Computer

OS
Windows 7 Professional 32 bit
CPU
Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E8500 (6M Cache, 3.16 GHz, 1333
Memory
Corsair 4gb RAM DDR3
Graphics Card(s)
ATI 6850 1GB Black Edition
Hard Drives
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3500630AS 500GB
THis page lists the cards according to their power, so you can look around and be sure you got the most bang for your investment.

The two cards you are talking about are on par as far as graphic processing power goes, but the NVIDIA has CUDA cores so it will run games that need Physx or decide to use them to render something (one I think did use them for water effects), while the ATI requires less power.
 

My Computer

Computer type
PC/Desktop
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
custom built
OS
Win 7 Pro 64-bit 7601
CPU
AMD Phenom 9650 QuadCore, revision DR-B3
Motherboard
ASUS M4A78
Memory
5 GB yes I run 2x 2GB and 1x 1GB, different brand, spank me.
Graphics Card(s)
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT 512 Mb, unknown manufacturer.
Sound Card
Crappy Realtek Integrated Audio
Monitor(s) Displays
Fujitsu Siemens P19-3P
Screen Resolution
1280 x 1024 x 32 bits @ 60 Hz Oh yeah, 4:3 rocks!
Hard Drives
(1) MAXTOR S TM3320613AS SATA Disk Device (2) STM35004 18AS SATA Disk Device (3) TOSHIBA USB 2.5"-HDD
PSU
whatever, around 450w
Case
Scavenged from old company PC, 10+ years old
Cooling
CPU fan, GPU fan, case fan, nothing fancy
Keyboard
Microsoft, PS/2, white.
Mouse
Optical, logitec.
Internet Speed
effective max speeds: 70-ish kB/s down 30-ish kB/s up
Antivirus
Avira, free edition.
Browser
Firefox with FXChrome to make it look like Google Chrome :P
Other Info
Was discarded by previous owner due to "horrible performance".
Was running Win Xp from a IDE drive. Yeah. Was a pain.
SATA II drive and Win7 and it zips away! Yay!
With the CPU in your system specs, I don't like to say this but it will most likely bottleneck the latest gpu's you have listed and they won't work as well as they should. I would suggest maybe putting the money towards a new cpu and motherboard first before considering upgrading your GPU, but that's just my opinion.

But if you really want to go for it then there are 3 7870s on this page - Radeon HD 7870 - Aria Technology at around your budget.

Before you do anything though what PSU do you have?


Paul.
 

My Computer

OS
Windows 7 Professional 64 bit
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