Video Card advice
 

My son and his boyfriend game a lot using their PC and wish to update the graphics card in the system. Atm they are running an ASUS Radion 6670 PCI-E16x 2GB.

Ive been looking at a few sites and wondering what the difference is between the Radion 7000 chipset and the R7 chipset.

The Budget for a new card is £100.

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The difference between is mostly just in the naming. AMD rebadged the lower 7*** series for some of the new range and are pretty much the same cards other than not needing to use display port for 3 screens.

£100 is at that point where you don't get a lot for the money but if you add a little more you get something much better, £130 for an r9 270 is probably where you'd want to go for a lower end gaming card.

If it's not flexible then perhaps go for a b-grade from the last season cards, something like this 660 would be decent enough http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...=595&catid=683 or either keep an eye out on daily deals at the various sites or go second hand.

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They decided on the XFX R9 270 2GB DDR5 Dual DVI HDMI DisplayPort PCI-E Graphics Card

Costing £122

http://www.ebuyer.com/584554-xfx-r9-...d-r9-270a-cdfc

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After 2 boards died after only a few months, take care to keep them dust and fluff free as they get hot very quickly otherwise!

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The R9 series get ridiculously hot nomatter what you do. But they're designed for it.

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Thankfully the case i built their PC in is very cool having 3 fans on the front (came with one but added another 2), a massive one on the side and one on the back.

This is the case i used...
http://www.icute.com.tw/en/productDia.php?cc=NDM=