Advice on Graphics Cards

[Darlan_Ashwood]

I suggest getting the HD 5770. It would be a nice upgrade from your HD 5450 card. Its an awesome card for the price and gets the job done for budget pc gamers like myself. Also, upgrading to a quad core processor would help with frame rates in game.

Be warned. Alot of the people on MMO forums are people with i7 processors who spent 1000+$ on their pcs, and think anything below 100 fps is laggy Lol..

[Ricky]

1.0 was CPU intensive and 2.0 is GPU intensive so take that as you will

[Dhalmel]

1.0 was CPU intensive and 2.0 is GPU intensive so take that as you will

1.0 was GPU rape, locked down to mostly 2 cores is hardly cpu instensive.

[ispano]

I suggest getting the HD 5770. It would be a nice upgrade from your HD 5450 card. Its an awesome card for the price and gets the job done for budget pc gamers like myself. Also, upgrading to a quad core processor would help with frame rates in game.

Be warned. Alot of the people on MMO forums are people with i7 processors who spent 1000+$ on their pcs, and think anything below 100 fps is laggy Lol..

The good ones know that anything related to FPS has nothing to do with Lag. However, the human eye sees by spotting changes and differences, not in a certain FPS like many like to say. People have been known to see the difference between say 60 FPS and 120 FPS, I know I can.

[Abriael]

I suggest getting the HD 5770. It would be a nice upgrade from your HD 5450 card. Its an awesome card for the price and gets the job done for budget pc gamers like myself. Also, upgrading to a quad core processor would help with frame rates in game.

I would not waste money on a 5770. It's way past the end of it's lifetime, so much that it's discontinued at many retailers.

For what it does it would be wasted money. When you purchase hardware, it's better to do so with the future in mind, and spending 100 bucks on something that was already obsolete two years ago is not my idea of being smart with one's money.

At about 200 bucks a GTX 660 is very affordable, will run well with her configuration, and will give a real boost to her system, with the added bonus that if she'll ever decide to upgrade the other components, the 660 will be a good base for a new system, while a HD 5770 would just bog it down and would have to be thrown out like the rest of the components. Wasted money.

[Athaya]

If you have a PS3 I would suggest playing on that if you want to save money.

Yep great suggestion!

[Darlan_Ashwood]

I would not waste money on a 5770. It's way past the end of it's lifetime, so much that it's discontinued at many retailers.

For what it does it would be wasted money. When you purchase hardware, it's better to do so with the future in mind, and spending 100 bucks on something that was already obsolete two years ago is not my idea of being smart with one's money.

At about 200 bucks a GTX 660 is very affordable, will run well with her configuration, and will give a real boost to her system, with the added bonus that if she'll ever decide to upgrade the other components, the 660 will be a good base for a new system, while a HD 5770 would just bog it down and would have to be thrown out like the rest of the components. Wasted money.

Spending 200$ on the graphics card alone is in no way saving money..and I dont see how a 5770 would be ''bogging down'' compared to a 5450

[Nix]

Spending 200$ on the graphics card alone is in no way saving money..and I dont see how a 5770 would be ''bogging down'' compared to a 5450

2nd vote of confidence here for the 5770, got mine on sale and I'm SO glad I did.

[Shura]

5770 is better then 6670 but it needs a 450W psu, unless i'm mistaken, i was under the impression you had a 400W PSU. If your gonna upgrade your PSU anyway then go with a 6850 which is better then 5770, price should be pretty close to so might as well go with the better one. GTX 660 is better then both but not worth the price for your system.

[Abriael]

Spending 200$ on the graphics card alone is in no way saving money..and I dont see how a 5770 would be ''bogging down'' compared to a 5450

You're saving money because you won't need to buy another one for years. It's a fairly futureproof card. The 5770 was obsolete two years ago, and it's *discontinued* now. There's a reason for that.

A 5770 will bog down any modern PC. When she'll finally decide to change her other parts, and sooner or later she'll have to if she wants to continue playing on PCs, the 5770 would be a dead weight in it.

On the other hand a card like a 660 will be a good base for any upgrade. Hence, saving money.

Advising anyone to buy a discontinued card is honestly quite nearsighted. It does not save them money on the long run, and the performance they'll get will be sub-par anyway.