Some video card advice.

specs:
gigabyte ma770-ud3p
500w ps
4 gigs of ddr3
8800 gts 320
amd phenomII x3
all stock clocked

Until recently I was using a 26" 720p tv as a monitor. It was great, and those low end specs could push it with no trouble. I recently acquired a 42" 1080p set and for most things the old gts still does remarkably well (the call of duties play well on anything more advanced than a mouse turd I think, borderlands also does well). I'm looking for something that will gnaw on games like NFS:S a little better. 1360x768 is about where the 8800 starts twitching.

I'm looking at the 5770 as a replacement. Namely this one *edit, crap linked the wrong stuff.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127474 //url fixed

At some point I may toss a tuner and bluray drive into the mix as well. The price of that 5770 is about my limit at the moment. The dx11 and low power both sound really nice.


Any suggestions?

That's a great choice. Are you going to connect it with HDMI?

5770 is the best of the $150-170 price point in my opinion. Might I suggest this version instead?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...2864&cm_re=radeon_5770-_-14-102-864-_-Product

I (and many others) have had excellent experiences with Sapphire. You also save about 10% versus the MSI card between the lower price and free shipping.

Read up on their warranty's. If you see no problem if you need support, go with what's cheaper.

Kowan said:

That's a great choice. Are you going to connect it with HDMI?

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Most likely. I have 4 free and nothing else to do with them at the moment.

Thanks for the suggestions... It certainly looks like a great card for the price. And thanks for the heads up on the Sapphire.

Well good luck and you should download the 9.12 drivers so you have them ready when it's delivered.

Thanks, it's just been ordered.


I will. My last ATI card was a FireGL256.

Here's to hoping this one performs as well and lasts as long as that crazy thing did.

Bona Fide said:

5770 is the best of the $150-170 price point in my opinion. Might I suggest this version instead?

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It's easy to be the best in that price point when you're the only card in that price point.

Anyways, this HIS is a tiny bit cheaper w/ promo code EMCMNNT82 from the Newegg newsletter, though the difference is only about 2 bucks.

Rage3D did a great article on the different AA settings but I can't find it.
You might want to read through this ATI Catalyst Tweak Guide to get an idea of some of the settings since you last used a ATi card.

Thanks, I certainly will give that a read.

Got my 5770 in, very very happy with it.

NFS:Shift is playing very well at 1920x1080 with everything as high as they will go. Some very slight slowdown occasionally. May bump the aa or the af down a notch from max. *edit, I'm still running the 7100 build of 7 though. That needs moved to a mo bettah faster drive and bumped up to the retail.

COD MW: max of course.

Crysis is very much mo bettah.

CIV: IV has had a couple of twitches. Only when I hooked up two 1280x1024 monitors and was playing at 2560x1024 though so far. weird artifacted pointer and a bluescreen once.



I am kinda twitchy about heat dissipation on the back with the ram. Think I should get a couple of heatsinks? It's got some weird temps going on back there. Haven't looked under real load, but saw 104f on one chip, 100 on another, then 95, then 85. I need to get/borrow one of those temp guns and do some under load testing.