Advice on Graphics Cards

[Nix]

atm I'm using an ATI radeon HD5770, managed to score it a whileback on newegg for cheap. It's not the best card out there but it's pretty decent and not ridiculously priced. (got mine for $70 on sale and with a rebate~)

[SkyeWindbinder]

Well, I did plan to get a new power supply for a new video card. I just want one that will run the game well. For the last benchmark I scored low on medium settings, and insufficient on high. I don't get it, since I could run 1.0 well on my machine, and that was supposed to me more stressful on a computer, or so I'm told. :/

Anyway, I just need a new card and power supply obviously, some for cheap. I don't have a PS3, so that's out of the question.

[Klefth]

Wow, could you actually play 1.0 on that?

[SkyeWindbinder]

Wow, could you actually play 1.0 on that?

Yeah, with no problems! Weird. lol

Also, how can you tell which graphics cards are more powerful? I wish I could do that...

[Nix]

Yeah, with no problems! Weird. lol

Also, how can you tell which graphics cards are more powerful? I wish I could do that...

I usually just whore the charts over at Tom's Hardware^^: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...ew,3107-7.html

[SkyeWindbinder]

I usually just whore the charts over at Tom's Hardware^^: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...ew,3107-7.html

Thanks!

Bookmarked!

[carlosx]

Yeah, with no problems! Weird. lol

Also, how can you tell which graphics cards are more powerful? I wish I could do that...

remember 1.0 taking down all grafics runs perfect on my old 9800gtx lol now i have serie 2 SLI 295gtx at 896bits and when i think back on the pass i was using a 128bits card and game run on 1g memory shared on the sistem and now i have 2g memory core and share 4g video memory dedicated runing a core 2 quad 9550 and on 1.0 i was using a dual core on less then 5.4hrz lol also now im using 8gmemory dd3 and back then i was using only 2g memory dd2


soo realy the game specs was not soo high back then on 1.0

and now my score on maximum on the benchamark only give a farly high sooo i ausume the benchmark dont read my SLI sistem

[ispano]

Wow, could you actually play 1.0 on that?

Many people aren't as critical as to what good performance or quality is. I've seen many people call something smooth or whatnot, and I look at it and go wtf? That looks like garbage.

But anyways, you most likely won't get a huge boost with just a GPU upgrade. You should notice something, but not nearly what you would if you could upgrade the rest of the system as well.

[AdorraEloom]

Considering your current system already has an ATI card, I would get the 6670 for $50 as some else stated earlier, it would give you a nice boost, for fairly cheap. Anything more power full than the 6670 and you would be burning your money as the rest of your computer would bottleneck it.

[SkyeWindbinder]

Considering your current system already has an ATI card, I would get the 6670 for ~$50 as some else stated earlier, it would give you a nice boost, for fairly cheap.

No lag, no slowdown, no poblems at all. Heck, I even compared my performance to those who had better rigs on youtube, I saw no difference. I dunno. I do treat my machine like a baby though (regular cleaning, maintenance, ect.) Maybe that has soemthing to do with it.

Anyways, I think I'll just go with the graphics card and power supply. Lat time I updated, it went from non-playable to smooth like butter. I just wanted to know which one I should go for. Heck, I may not even need a new power supply if I get a good enough card for 400W! Not looking for movie screen quality, just nice enough to show pretty pictures without exploding. ^^

My computer may be a crapbox, but it holds up well.