Whats a good under $200 card to replace a eVGA GTX460 1GB FTW

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JETninja

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Can't really complain about the card, but it is two years old. Figure the 650Ti probably has more HP. I'm a bit more of an nVidia fan, though I did have a great AMD card years ago. I like there much quicker driver response more than anything.

Or should I just wait for price drops in the months ahead...
 
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Enku

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7850 for less than 200 and 7870 for just over 200. Nvidia price/performance for 200 range lacks in comparison
 
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You should wait till next year and jump on a 7970 or 7950 when prices fall through the floor.
 
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I'd spend a few dollars more and get a gtx 660. It's about as fast as gtx 460 sli and sips power.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814162122
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130825
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814125443

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Fallengod

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Yeah youd probably need something in the $200 range. I was going to suggest the GTX 650 Ti which is on sale for around $80-90 after rebate and selling off AC3. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814127704

But honestly, your current card is so fast you need to spend more to get a real upgrade. The 650 Ti would use less power though and be somewhat faster I think?
 
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Thanks for the Charts. Hadn't seen any with the 460 for awhile. One of the other reasons I like the 600 series is also power and cooling. I'd love a 660Ti...but bit more then I can justify at the moment...but I can wait and hang. I mostly use the rig for my rFactor racing leagues, and it runs rFactor2 quite well, but I'd like to upgrade before the serious mods start showing up for that Simulator.
 
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Silverforce11 said:
Really... could you try harder to mislead buyers?

Linking a result from obsolete drivers is poor gamesmanship.
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notty was comparing the 660 to the 460, not to the 7870 here.

The 650ti is only mildly faster than the 460, so I wouldn't think it's a great upgrade. If you really want to stay under $200, you should look at some 7850s, or spend a bit more for the 660s/7870s.
 
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raghu78

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for less than 200 dollars you could get a PCS+ HD 7850 (1 Ghz). matches GTX 660 at stock speeds. the GTX 460 FTW comes at 850 Mhz and matches GTX 560 performance. HD 7850(1 Ghz) should be atleast 25% faster than a GTX 460 FTW.

www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?...82E16814131472

HD 7850 (1 Ghz) is on average 10% slower than HD 7870(1 Ghz)

http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/graphics/38809-powercolor-pcs-hd7850/?page=4

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Powercolor/HD_7850_PCS_Plus/6.html

with the 12.11 drivers a HD 7850(1.15 Ghz) is on par with HD 7870(1 Ghz) and faster than GTX 580

http://www.techspot.com/review/603-best-graphics-cards/page3.html
 
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raghu78 said:
for less than 200 dollars you could get a PCS+ HD 7850 (1 Ghz). matches GTX 660 at stock speeds. the GTX 460 FTW comes at 850 Mhz and matches GTX 560 performance. HD 7850(1 Ghz) should be atleast 25% faster than a GTX 460 FTW.

www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?...82E16814131472

HD 7850 (1 Ghz) is on average 10% slower than HD 7870(1 Ghz)

http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/graphics/38809-powercolor-pcs-hd7850/?page=4

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Powercolor/HD_7850_PCS_Plus/6.html

with the 12.11 drivers a HD 7850(1.15 Ghz) is on par with HD 7870(1 Ghz) and faster than GTX 580

http://www.techspot.com/review/603-best-graphics-cards/page3.html
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This is all totally accurate, except for one thing - that the 7850 makes any sense as an upgrade. 25% is a terrible improvement for $175. It might not even be noticeable in some games. The 7870 is the minimum step the OP would want to take, being 45% faster than what he had now and offering almost as much overclock potential as a stock 7850. For $210 at Newegg, it's a no-brainer.


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notty was comparing the 660 to the 460, not to the 7870 here.

The 650ti is only mildly faster than the 460, so I wouldn't think it's a great upgrade. If you really want to stay under $200, you should look at some 7850s, or spend a bit more for the 660s/7870s.
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The 650ti actually isn't any faster than a 460ftw, and frankly shouldn't have even been mentioned in this thread. It would be a complete fail of an upgrade.

Edit: OP - what games are you most interested in playing?
 
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jmarti445

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Commonsense tells me hold on to the card or try to get a second one if you are SLI capable, I'm still on a pair of GTX 465(unlocked to 470) and other then the power consumption of the cards there is nothing that is urging me to upgrade. No real reason to upgrade from ATI cards if you have 5870's(which I have a pair of in a second computer). Only reason to upgrade to newer stuff IMO is if you are still running DX10 hardware like the 8x00, 9x00, 38x0 48x0, or GTX2xx series. A GTX460 = still a pretty good card.
 
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jmarti445

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Honestly, hold on to your money until Haswell comes out cause the card will still be relevant until the summer. With the new Radeon Cards coming out in the Spring coupled with Haswell you can get a 3-way PCI Express board and run Crossfire with Physx enabled with your GTX460.
 
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Fallengod said:
Yeah youd probably need something in the $200 range. I was going to suggest the GTX 650 Ti which is on sale for around $80-90 after rebate and selling off AC3. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814127704

But honestly, your current card is so fast you need to spend more to get a real upgrade. The 650 Ti would use less power though and be somewhat faster I think?
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A 650Ti depending on the title and workload is basically the same performance as a 460/560 @ 822-900mhz. So it would be side grading at best. I find it amazing how a 5 year old 8800/9800GT is 1/3 the performance of a stock GTX660 for crying out loud in some games. Got a 460 myself and I decided to hold out until there is better deals.
 
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A GTX 650 Ti is about like the O.P.'s GTX 460 FTW in performance at stock speeds. If he can't go over $200 an HD 7850 is the logical choice. If he can go a bit over $200 and must stick with Nvidia the GTX 660 is between the HD 7850 and HD 7870 in price and performance. Can be had for $210 after rebate.
 
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JETninja

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Thanks guys, appreciate the comments. Surprised a 2yr old $230 card is still so strong. I'll wait 6 months and see how the market is then.

Years ago I was a king of overclocking, past few years I've found no reason too. LOL!

Part of my reason to upgrade is to pass this one on to my Son's (young adults) that want build a PC but are a bit poor atm.
 
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Was in a similar boat to you, running a 24" LCD (albeit 1920x1200 and not 1080p) and had a GTX 460 HAWK.

Couldn't crank some of the latest games this year so I bought an IceQ 7870 for $189 on black friday. About to pop it in now, actually.
 
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Fallengod

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Avalon said:
Was in a similar boat to you, running a 24" LCD (albeit 1920x1200 and not 1080p) and had a GTX 460 HAWK.

Couldn't crank some of the latest games this year so I bought an IceQ 7870 for $189 on black friday. About to pop it in now, actually.
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Pop it likes it hawt....
 
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Thanks. I must have still been focused on my other PC parts at the time. Silly me. Oh, I see. AR price. I tend to zero-in on out the door price, and missed it :p
 
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jimhsu

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Still waiting for a repeat of the ~$235 7950 deal a while back. Nothing like that so far on BF. Oh well, I can certainly wait until 8xxx / 7xx.
 
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