Ben Ingber
Prominent Member
I think the 7950 would be a better choice than the 660 Ti. I know I'm going to be biased being a 7950 owner, but it seems to be the general consensus (and benchmarks prove) that the the 7950 is the better card. The recent AMD 12.11 driver update improves the performance even further.
It's mainly due to the larger memory bandwidth the 7950 pulls ahead.
Thanks. That seems to be the consensus on this thread too and I'm happy to defer to your collective wisdom and put aside my irrational pro-Nvidia bias.
Searching on the 7950 yields so many results - any recommendations on a specific card? I can't really push the budget any further, around £230-240 is my max.
EDIT: Maybe this http://www.ebuyer.com/341498-powerc...playport-pci-e-graphics-card-ax7950-3gbd5-2dh ? (Let's not discuss budget, eh?)
If you have any spare money in the budget I'd either upgrade your HDD to a bigger one, or add another to the 500GB.
500GB of space is really not that much these days.
I totally get why you'd say I should go bigger, but I really don't have much stuff. I'm not a hoarder, my music collection is around 10gb, and I rarely keep films/tv shows. I was thinking of getting 500gb for now, then when the prices come down a bit getting an SSD as the primary drive and doing a fresh install of Win7 or 8.
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