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My brother has £140 to spend on a gpu.

 

I found a ASUS GTX 960 DC2OC Strix for £140, should he do it? :-)

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Just now, huilun02 said:

If its brand new with warranty, yes.

Great, sounds like its very cheap :-)

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5 minutes ago, Daniel123dk said:

My brother has £140 to spend on a gpu.

 

I found a ASUS GTX 960 DC2OC Strix for £140, should he do it? :-)

brand new? go ahead

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2 minutes ago, SeanAngelo said:

brand new? go ahead

Thanks, another question, he has just gotten a phenom 1090t and a 970 motherboard, will it bottleneck the card? :-)

 

Thanks :-)

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3 minutes ago, Daniel123dk said:

Thanks, another question, he has just gotten a phenom 1090t and a 970 motherboard, will it bottleneck the card? :-)

 

Thanks :-)

I don't think it will be a seriuos bottleneck be gather more info on this because I'm not sure

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the phenom is close to the performance of a FX8350 so on the 970 (am3) board i would not upgrade to anything.... rather wait for zen or go intel 

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2 minutes ago, LukaH said:

the phenom is close to the performance of a FX8350 so on the 970 (am3) board i would not upgrade to anything.... rather wait for zen or go intel 

He is very happy about the performance :)

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35 minutes ago, Daniel123dk said:

My brother has £140 to spend on a gpu.

 

I found a ASUS GTX 960 DC2OC Strix for £140, should he do it? :-)

I would say a used 7950. It has 3GB vram. 

 

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5 minutes ago, Abdul201588 said:

I would say a used 7950. It has 3GB vram. 

 

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He wants a brand new card :)

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40 minutes ago, Daniel123dk said:

Thanks, another question, he has just gotten a phenom 1090t and a 970 motherboard, will it bottleneck the card? :-)

 

Thanks :-)

it wont be a massive bottleneck but there will be some

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