Recommend graphics card please

[illumnae]

My graphics card overheated and spoilt due to poor circulation issues where I placed my PC. This card is a PowerColor HD7950 3GB GDDR5 PCI-E 3.0. I have repositioned the pc and solved the circulation issue.

I don't game much anymore, but friends are asking me to restart WoW so I'm hoping for a card that will run Warlords of Draenor at high to ultra in case I restart. If I do play other games, it'll be rpgs only like GW2, D3 or maybe Skyrim. These games I'm happy to play at med to high settings. Main use for the pc until I start gaming again is just simple photo shop or simple video editing for wildlife and aquarium photography.

I've narrowed my choice down to the following from pc themes price list:

Zotac gtx 750 ti 2gb @ $219

Palit gtx 750 ti oc @ $240

Zotac gtx 750 ti 2gb oc @ $259

If there is significant improvement, I may be willing to get Zotac gtx 760 AMP 2gb oc @ $329, but only if it'll make a big difference for the uses stated above. Don't want to spend extra unnecessarily.

Thanks in advance!

 

[jerome1470]

My graphics card overheated and spoilt due to poor circulation issues where I placed my PC. This card is a PowerColor HD7950 3GB GDDR5 PCI-E 3.0. I have repositioned the pc and solved the circulation issue.

I don't game much anymore, but friends are asking me to restart WoW so I'm hoping for a card that will run Warlords of Draenor at high to ultra in case I restart. If I do play other games, it'll be rpgs only like GW2, D3 or maybe Skyrim. These games I'm happy to play at med to high settings. Main use for the pc until I start gaming again is just simple photo shop or simple video editing for wildlife and aquarium photography.

I've narrowed my choice down to the following from pc themes price list:

Zotac gtx 750 ti 2gb @ $219

Palit gtx 750 ti oc @ $240

Zotac gtx 750 ti 2gb oc @ $259

If there is significant improvement, I may be willing to get Zotac gtx 760 AMP 2gb oc @ $329, but only if it'll make a big difference for the uses stated above. Don't want to spend extra unnecessarily.

Thanks in advance!

Your 7950 better than those other cards. Never RMA?

 

[illumnae]

Wife threw away the spoilt card got to get a new one.

 

[Alternative X]

A GTX 750Ti is enough to run your games at max settings. Can just get the non-OC version if you are feeling adventurous and OC the card yourself using MSI Afterburner and save yourself some $$$. Otherwise, get the OC version.

 

[illumnae]

Thanks! I don't dare to oc myself. Is the palit or zotac better?

 

[Alternative X]

Thanks! I don't dare to oc myself. Is the palit or zotac better?

Around the same. GPUs differ with brands only through these properties:

-different GPU cooler design
-different clock rates (nothing that a mild OC can't fix.)

Just pick the brand that you like.