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Worth upgrading Radeon 4890?

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BackFire349

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Hi,

I'm considering upgrading my 4890 to a Geforce GTX 560ti and was curious as to whether or not you guys on this forum think it would be a worthwhile upgrade? My current system is a Q6600 @ 3ghz, 4 gigs of DDR2 ram.

Any input or thoughts would be appreciated, thanks.
 
Wait for next gen ATI/Nvidia cards. For now I'd stay put. Might want to consider an Ivy Bridge or Sandy Bridge upgrade at the same time if you can afford it.
 
BackFire349 said:
Hi,

I'm considering upgrading my 4890 to a Geforce GTX 560ti and was curious as to whether or not you guys on this forum think it would be a worthwhile upgrade? My current system is a Q6600 @ 3ghz, 4 gigs of DDR2 ram.

Any input or thoughts would be appreciated, thanks.
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It'd be a reasonable upgrade, about 60% extra performance. The newer cards will obviously provide substantially more but you'll still be a waiting a few more months for those. If you're impatient, go for a 560ti (or similar - the HD6870 and HD6950 are also good upgrades) now, otherwise wait for the HD7800 series to appear in spring next year.
 
BackFire349 said:
Hi,

I'm considering upgrading my 4890 to a Geforce GTX 560ti and was curious as to whether or not you guys on this forum think it would be a worthwhile upgrade? My current system is a Q6600 @ 3ghz, 4 gigs of DDR2 ram.

Any input or thoughts would be appreciated, thanks.
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I also run a Q6600 @3Ghz, but with 8GB of DDR2....

I upgraded from an HIS HD4890 to a 2GB 6950 (MSI Frozr II) a couple weeks ago. I game at 1920x1080, and I saw a substantial improvement in game performance. I can now run max settings (AA/AF/etc.) in all of my games. Before (with the 4890), I could run mid-high settings.

I am very happy with the upgrade.

My advice is to get 2GB on whatever card you decide to pick up. Higher resolutions and higher AA settings require more VRAM. The BF3 beta has been reported to use 1.25-1.5GB of VRAM, and while it is not a final release, it does indicate that memory requirements for games is only going to increase as time marches on.
 
It depends on what you're doing. If you can I'd wait for 7xxx series and like the post above me says get 2gb of memory. Also hopefully on the 7xxx series they will have ironed out the last kinks in eyefinity.

Not a whole big rush to get a new card right now considering how everything is a console port.
 
flegg said:
Not a whole big rush to get a new card right now considering how everything is a console port.
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Does this falsehood mean you think PC games aren't demanding enough to need new hardware these days? You would be very wrong if you think that...
 
samuelmorris said:
Does this falsehood mean you think PC games aren't demanding enough to need new hardware these days? You would be very wrong if you think that...
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his statement is not false just look at the fast majority of the games released, they ARE console ports that you can still play on a 3+ year old 4870........at better settings than a console.....
 
Well, not really. With the growing prevalence of Indie games, only a small minority are console ports these days. It's just, a relatively high proportion (still not sure about majority) of the big-studio games are ports. Even so, most ports are so badly coded that to max them out you still need pretty hefty hardware. We're not talking 'to run better than consoles' here, we're talking maximum experience possible. Just because you don't need an HD6970 to play a certain game doesn't mean there's no benefit to buying one. If you're on a PC to get better graphics than a console, why not take full advantage of that fact?
 
its a decent upgrade. unless you're fine with playing the waiting game until next year.
 
Pull the trigger & get it over with. Sell the 4890, get some cash back, and from there just save up to upgrade the system when you can.
 
Personally, I'd hold out for the 7000 series and just build a new PC... but if you're not into that, then yeah the 560ti is the best bang for your buck card around. I'd do it just to get DX11 capability anyway.
 
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