freestonew
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hello all.
which "lesser", cheaper ATI video card would improve my Oblivion game, the "more bang for the buck" card. i have the HD 4650, now.
but first...
I have an emachine dual core intel E5400 processor.
win 7 with 4 gigs ram
I have now a Ati HD 4650 card with 512 megs of DDR2 memory.
Oblivion, and most games, play well but I can tell that Oblivion and Second Life need a "bit more" in the processing or video card department.
I have Quarl's textures, all the graphic texture enhancers, and the Lods and "everything viewable with distance", mods, no Overhauls but a lot of mods.
I get about 40 fps outdoors unless i am in a busy area and the I have maybe 10 fps,
BUT!
when I turn on distant land, I get about 10 fps or even less, going down from 40 to 8 is not nice. but that view looks Sooooo incredible!
newegg has a
SAPPHIRE 100296HDMI Radeon HD 4670 1GB 128-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card
that is on sale for about $70.
I suspect that the 1 gig of DDR3 ram will help a lot, plus the card is a bit faster.
of course I will buy a 500 watt PSU!
ah...the rub and the catch!!
as long as I have that 500 watt PSU, I wonder if I should even buy an even better card?!
My disability fixed income can only handle just so much $$$ plus I will shortly come up against the ceiling of my motherboard and processor! thus even if I could afford one of the $300 models of ati, my fps would not show much improvements.
ah but there are *so* many number flavors of ati HD cards!!
I get mentally dizzy just reading about them.
At some upper level point, they have DDR5 memory.
like:
SAPPHIRE 100283-3L Radeon HD 5770 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card . 74 percent of reviewers give this a 5 of 5 rating.
Only $130 at newegg.
Again: might be overkill for me.
then some of these cards are not quiet either, I read!
On the surface it would appear that if i wanted to upgrade, I should go for that $70 bargain, the 4670.
But please people, help me see if it would be worth it for me to go "higher" in the ati HD card series. should i consider a better card than that 4670?!
thank you....freestone
which "lesser", cheaper ATI video card would improve my Oblivion game, the "more bang for the buck" card. i have the HD 4650, now.
but first...
I have an emachine dual core intel E5400 processor.
win 7 with 4 gigs ram
I have now a Ati HD 4650 card with 512 megs of DDR2 memory.
Oblivion, and most games, play well but I can tell that Oblivion and Second Life need a "bit more" in the processing or video card department.
I have Quarl's textures, all the graphic texture enhancers, and the Lods and "everything viewable with distance", mods, no Overhauls but a lot of mods.
I get about 40 fps outdoors unless i am in a busy area and the I have maybe 10 fps,
BUT!
when I turn on distant land, I get about 10 fps or even less, going down from 40 to 8 is not nice. but that view looks Sooooo incredible!
newegg has a
SAPPHIRE 100296HDMI Radeon HD 4670 1GB 128-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card
that is on sale for about $70.
I suspect that the 1 gig of DDR3 ram will help a lot, plus the card is a bit faster.
of course I will buy a 500 watt PSU!
ah...the rub and the catch!!
as long as I have that 500 watt PSU, I wonder if I should even buy an even better card?!
My disability fixed income can only handle just so much $$$ plus I will shortly come up against the ceiling of my motherboard and processor! thus even if I could afford one of the $300 models of ati, my fps would not show much improvements.
ah but there are *so* many number flavors of ati HD cards!!
I get mentally dizzy just reading about them.
At some upper level point, they have DDR5 memory.
like:
SAPPHIRE 100283-3L Radeon HD 5770 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card . 74 percent of reviewers give this a 5 of 5 rating.
Only $130 at newegg.
Again: might be overkill for me.
then some of these cards are not quiet either, I read!
On the surface it would appear that if i wanted to upgrade, I should go for that $70 bargain, the 4670.
But please people, help me see if it would be worth it for me to go "higher" in the ati HD card series. should i consider a better card than that 4670?!
thank you....freestone