Advice on Graphics Cards

[AdorraEloom]

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.

Looks like the 6670 card requires min 400W power supply so you would not even have to upgrade your power supply.

I'm basing this from this site.

http://www.flipkart.com/sapphire-amd...md4f6shhvfzhum

[Shura]

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.

What settings are you running the benchmark at? based on the info you provided, your monitor resolution is pretty low, that could be why you can run 1.0 without a problem. Maybe try playing around with the benchmark settings, rather then using the default settings provided. Also as others have said already, even if you don't already have a PS3, buying one might be cheaper overall then upgrading your GPU/PSU.

The main issue with upgrading your PC is your CPU, its pretty old and upgrading the GPU is not gonna make much of a difference, the CPU will bottleneck the GPU. Your original GPU was a NVIDIA GeForce 6150 SE, with 128mb dedicated ram(which is useless really) so when you upgraded to the 5450, you saw a big difference; and the CPU did not bottleneck the 5450. If you upgrade just the videocard further, the CPU will bottleneck it so you won't see a performance increase like you did during your first upgrade.

If your really intent on playing on PC as opposed to PS3, then my suggestion to you is to try and save some money up in the next few months and upgrade your entire PC. If a new PC is completely out of the question, then as AdorraEloom said, a 6670 is your best bet without having to upgrade your power supply. If you do change your power supply too, then go with a 6850 the highest you can go without upgrading your CPU. Honestly even the 6850 is pushing it, but since you play on a low resolution screen, it should be fine.

[Solace]

Yea don't spend too much. You'd have to upgrade the mobo and chipset + cpu to break the bottleneck.. Trust the ATI recommendation.

[ispano]

PassMark's site is good as well.

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

They also have charts for CPUs as well. You do have to be careful reading them though. The GPU charts, you'll see on high end, 680 is above 690. The 690 is actually two chips in one, so with SLI on it should outperform the 680. Depends on the game and drivers, etc.

On the CPU side, they seem to use a bench that actually uses all cores. So a 6 core could be higher than a given quad core, but because the quad is faster per core, it would perform better in games.

So, grain of salt stuff.

[Abriael]

I suggest getting a Gigabyte Geforce GTX 660 Windforce. It's affordable, it's powerful but not excessively so in a way that your CPU will bottleneck it too much, and it's not too power-hungry. If your power supply is a 450 or higher with a single connector it should be ok.

PS: Yes, upgrading your GPU WILL very sizably upgrade your performance. Whatever people say, FFXIV: ARR's engine is very GPU intensive and very little CPU intensive. There may be some bottlenecking but not nearly enough to snuff the power of a good GPU.

Adding one gigabyte of ram and bringing your system to 4 will also help, since you run a 64 bit OS.

[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..

[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.

[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.