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AMD 7970 / R9 280X or Nvidia GTX 680

Westyfield2

Westyfield2

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So I'm looking for a single card at the £250 mark. I'm running on single display 1080p. Might not overclock it massively myself, but like pre-overclocked cards. Also I'm a fan of the Asus & MSI cards because of the coolers.

So looking around there's:

  • MSI AMD R9 280X (Core 1050MHz, Memory 6000MHz) at £249.95 and Asus R9 280x (Core 1070MHz, Memory 6400MHz) at £259.95.
  • Asus AMD 7970 at £257.99.
  • MSI Nvidia GTX 680 (can be flashed to the 'Lightning' LN2 BIOS for faster pre-overclock and enabling more volts for manual) at £259.99.

So with all three of AMD 7970 / AMD R9 280X / Nvidia GTX 680 at the same price, what would you buy?
 

nicnik

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It's going to come down to the deal and what card you're guaranteeing (top or not).

Assuming you're not going to be overclocking much/overvolting, I would take the 680 out of the equation unless you're guaranteeing a nice top chip; my experience with the 680, you can end up with quite a bad one that barely breaks 1150Mhz without boost.

Matrix platinum 7970 is good. 680 msi power edition was on sale a few days ago at 240 is also very good. and ofc the 280x toxic is probably better than both of them but it will cost more (£260-270).

I duno when the 280x toxic is available, if it's very soon and the price is good, i'd def go with that.
 
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