Looking for A Graphics Card

[TJFireball]

at the moment im looking for a fairly decent graphics card, not to over the top.

I will need it to run these games on high settings:

 

Counter Strike: Global Offensive

 

Team fortress 2

 

Left 4 Dead 2

 

Heroes and Generals

 

Rust

 

Blacklight: Retribution

 

Garry Mod

 

BattleField 4

 

Etc..

 

Looking for cards preferably from Nvidia in case i do get a Shield.

 

Thanks for any help

 

 

[Phllips]

what are the rest of your specs

[Fluxx]

Price range?

[Tro]

GTX 770 seems good for what you want  You could get a lower priced one but BF4 requires more than the other games. 

[FloRolf]

Resolution, budget, other hardware... its not that hard...

[Archangel1994]

A GTX 750 Ti or GTX 760 should suffice

[BloodWithIce]

Budges
Location
Specs 
Please 

[melias24]

Budges

Location

Specs 

Please 

Wondering the same thing. But anyway i'd say a GTX 760 or 770

[TJFireball]

Resolution, budget, other hardware... its not that hard...

 Intel core i5 4690

Gigabyte Z87X-UD3H

Asus VX238H (Taking Reccomendations for gaming monitors)

Corsair CMY16GX3M2A1866C9 16GB(Dont worring if its in link form)

Seagate NAS HDD 3 TB Internal hard drive(Again dont worry about link)

NZXT H440

Intel 180 GB Internal SSD

• AX760 power supply 760 Watts (Tell me if to much)
• Dark Rock Pro c1 (Do i need to get the LGA1150 mounting kit?)
•  

[TJFireball]

Budges

Location

Specs 

Please 

 Intel core i5 4690

Gigabyte Z87X-UD3H

Asus VX238H (Taking Reccomendations for gaming monitors)

Corsair CMY16GX3M2A1866C9 16GB(Dont worring if its in link form)

Seagate NAS HDD 3 TB Internal hard drive(Again dont worry about link)

NZXT H440

Intel 180 GB Internal SSD

• AX760 power supply 760 Watts (Tell me if to much)
• Dark Rock Pro c1 (Do i need to get the LGA1150 mounting kit?)
• Australia

[TJFireball]

what are the rest of your specs

 Intel core i5 4690

Gigabyte Z87X-UD3H

Asus VX238H (Taking Reccomendations for gaming monitors)

Corsair CMY16GX3M2A1866C9 16GB(Dont worring if its in link form)

Seagate NAS HDD 3 TB Internal hard drive(Again dont worry about link)

NZXT H440

Intel 180 GB Internal SSD

• AX760 power supply 760 Watts (Tell me if to much)
• Dark Rock Pro c1 (Do i need to get the LGA1150 mounting kit?)
•  

[huskey]

 

 Intel core i5 4690

Gigabyte Z87X-UD3H

Asus VX238H (Taking Reccomendations for gaming monitors)

Corsair CMY16GX3M2A1866C9 16GB(Dont worring if its in link form)

Seagate NAS HDD 3 TB Internal hard drive(Again dont worry about link)

NZXT H440

Intel 180 GB Internal SSD

• AX760 power supply 760 Watts (Tell me if to much)
• Dark Rock Pro c1 (Do i need to get the LGA1150 mounting kit?)
•  

 

You still haven't told us the budget. I'd go with a 760/770 or even a 780 if you can aford it.

[TJFireball]

You still haven't told us the budget. I'd go with a 760/770 or even a 780 if you can aford it.

ah well atm i got $1120 im saving up until the end of the year and by by then ill have $1700-2000

[huskey]

2000$ just for a gpu? 780ti sli then lol

[threadysparrow]

My rule of thumb is that I don't spend more than $300 on any single computer part because that allows me to upgrade my PC every year and not feel like I've wasted money. But other people might be different. 

 

This is just my way of doing things and other people might feel differently. First, you don't want to just throw money at a graphics card. That's silly. When choosing a graphics card, you have to take into consideration 2 things, what your goal is, and what your budget is. If your goal is to play Battlefield 4 at ultra settings at 1440p then your budget needs to be in the $500- $600 range for a graphics card. If your budget is $300, then you are going to have to decide what card performs best for $300. And the more you spend on your graphics card, the less return on your investment that you see. My opinion, and this is just my opinion, is that a $700 graphics card is not $400 better than a $300 graphics card. Some people might think differently, but I think I have a point because the price/performance ratio goes way down when you increase price.

 

A good thing to do would be to google "Battlefield 4 Video Card IQ test" or insert whatever game you want to see and then look for the HardOCP link. They make great benchmarks of graphics cards.

 

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2013/11/17/battlefield_4_video_card_performance_iq_review#.U--SKfldVmw

 

 

Lastly, if you just want my opinion, I would go for an AMD R9 280X. It's what I use and it runs Team Fortress 2 and Battlefield 4 nicely. It's about $300 right now. The other games you mentioned aren't resource heavy so you won't have a problem running them. I bought mine used but if you are a first time builder then you don't want to buy a used computer part because you need to know what to look for and how to search for used computer parts. I know a lot about buying used computer parts and even I get burned sometimes.

[TJFireball]

2000$ just for a gpu? 780ti sli then lol

No you know $2000 in general (In whole)

[huskey]

You didn't say you wanted to upgrade your whole pc

... or are the specs you gave us your future ones?

[TJFireball]

You didn't say you wanted to upgrade your whole pc

... or are the specs you gave us your future ones?

Yes these are my future specs though there are little mods (power supply and a phew other things)