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the card you have and the 460 are from the same era. you wont notice much improvement. unless you have an available pci slot and want to run the 460 as a dedicated PhysX card.

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Basically i want to upgrade my gpu but i don't want to spend more than £60 i think that's $100 so i found a used gtx 460 from gigabyte for £67.50 including postage ($103) do you think this is a good deal and should i even bother for reference i have a radeon 5770 which performs well but as well as i would like so what i'm asking is are there any other options and how much of a difference will i see in games

 

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If you really dont need more performance, the 460 is definetly a decent card, but I would wait for the 9xxx

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You won't be seing any major improvements in my opinion. It would be better to just wait and spend about 200-300 euros which is the sweet spot for GPUs imo.

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just save money until the new gpus come out from amd or to get one of the 700 series from nvidia.

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You won't be seing any major improvements in my opinion. It would be better to just wait and spend about 200-300 euros which is the sweet spot for GPUs imo.

Then why did you get the 770? :P

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the card you have and the 460 are from the same era. you wont notice much improvement. unless you have an available pci slot and want to run the 460 as a dedicated PhysX card.

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the card you have and the 460 are from the same era. you wont notice much improvement. unless you have an available pci slot and want to run the 460 as a dedicated PhysX card.

That would be pointless.  The 460 is more powerful than what he has right now.  I definitely wouldn't get the 460.  It uses so much more power and generates a lot more heat compared to a current card.  I would definitely wait or save up and buy something better.

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Thanks everyone I've decided to wait until cyber monday black friday whichever one has cheaper computer stuff at least then the 9000 series will have come out and everything else from the 7000 series will be discounted thanks for help

 

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the card you have and the 460 are from the same era. you wont notice much improvement. unless you have an available pci slot and want to run the 460 as a dedicated PhysX card.

 

Dedicated PhysX-Cards bring no noticable improvement. Waste of space.

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Then why did you get the 770? :P

Because I need horsepower for my 2560x1440 screen. Planning to SLI sooner or later.

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