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Which radeon card?

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robbbby

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I recently bought a 5450 for my htpc. The boxes main use is obivously for music/movies, but since i'm not a console gamer I occassionally like to play a game on the big screen. Yesterday I installed street fighter 4 on my htpc but the 5450 was not up to the task at 1920x1080, was only getting like 22fps, in order to make it playable at all I have to set the resolution to 1280x800 and remove the background for the fights. Which radeon card would I be best off going with in my htpc so that I can play SF4 and a racing game? Any of the new cards energy friendly? I only have a 400W seasonic silent power supply so i'm hoping one of the radeon cards will be up to the job.
 
5770 is an awesome media center card. So far they have not released the 6000 version of this card so I'd say the 5770 1gb is still the Media center card to snag. I just checked my HTPC and total idle I'm drawing 80w with a 5770, BE2300, 2gb ddr2 800, 1x500gb WD Green, 1x2tb Samsung F3, BR/HDD drive, and 2 120mm fans on either an earthwatts 400 or 450. Fixing to check full load and movie load.


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Just checked, 107w while watching full bluRay rips (makeMKV) and 180w while playing Dirt2 with all medium settings at 1080p with ~60fps.
 
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trueish, but $80 does not come close to $180 for equivalency sake.
 
will a 5770 run ok with a 400w power supply? I have a silverstone 400W 80plus gold fanless power supply, I need to make sure it's ok before buying a new card I guess.

Also I can't find a definate answer, some places say that a 5770 only draws like 20W at idle and ~130W at full load, and other places are saying 100+ at idle and 230 at full load.

Also how would the gtx460 compare to the 5770? From the reading i've been doing, the 460 is a much better gaming card, but the computers main use is HTPC duty, is the 460 as good a card as the 5770 for HD video? Does it allow bitstreaming like the radeons? Would a 460 kill my PSU?
 
100+ and 230w sounds like it could be total system power. It also greatly depends on the base system the reviewers are using. 100W is far too much for just the card @ idle.

The 460 is a better gaming card but probably draws a little too much juice for that psu at full load. It will do bitstreaming so in terms of media ability they're basically equivalent.
 
is there any ati cards that are similar to the 460 in terms of gaming performance but still near the energy efficiency of the 5770? I guess i'm just trying to get the most card I can get without needing a new PSU.

If it helps, the computer has a single harddrive (intel ssd), only a single fan running on the cpu and the cpu is a i3 530 or 540, forget which.
 
eh, maybe the 6850, which is actually more of a replacement for the 5770 relatively speaking than for the 5850, slotting somewhere in between to combat the gtx460 while the 6950 replaced the 5850 in market position as a high-end card. That said I think in your situation the 5770 is your best bet. The 6850 is still going to be using a fair amount of juice and the 5770 is a fairly capable gaming card in its own right. Just don't expect to turn on lots of AA. Plus, with only an i3 CPU it doesn't make a ton of sense to move up to a higher end GPU
 
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good point, never really took the cpu into consideration. i'm just looking to play a few non mouse/keyboard games on the big screen, stuff like street fighter 4, MvsC, dirt2 and a couple other games that are more console type games to be played with a controller. I have my actual pc for FPS type games that require better hardware. Hopefully the 5770/i3 combo works out at 1920x1080 with those games at decent settings.
 
robbby, the 80w idle and 180w gaming I posted originally is my whole system power draw with the 5770. Check the reviews from[H] on the 6850 to see the difference between the it and 5770. The 6850 brings extra gaming ability and 3D movie capabilities to the table at the cost of extra power usage and price.
 
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